The road sign city name photo game

[formulanone]

A few days late with this play...

Dalton -> Noel (MO)

[oscar]

Noel => Lawrenceburg (IN):

[csw]

Lawrenceburg to Gary, IN:

[jmd41280]

Gary, IN -> Youngstown, OH


OH 170 south approaching I-680 by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[Truvelo]

Youngstown -> New Concord

You can tell when I'm getting short of photos I've not yet played if I'm having to use fuzzy images taken in the rain

[Roadgeekteen]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

[hotdogPi]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

[Roadgeekteen]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

From billburmaster

[hotdogPi]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

Blurring of random letters.

[Roadgeekteen]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

Blurring of random letters.

Why does google do that? Do they look like faces?

[hotdogPi]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

Blurring of random letters.

Why does google do that? Do they look like faces?

My guess is that it's the license plate recognition that causes it, not the face recognition.

[hbelkins]

The diversion above nothwithstanding looks like Dover remains the last valid play (not Des Moines) so Dover to Rickman.

2018 Tennessee US 11 clinching trip Day 1 - 057 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[Roadgeekteen]

The diversion above nothwithstanding looks like Dover remains the last valid play (not Des Moines) so Dover to Rickman.

2018 Tennessee US 11 clinching trip Day 1 - 057 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

Dover isn't valid.

[kphoger]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

Blurring of random letters.

I found the location of the sign in question on Google Maps, and I don't see any GSV imagery that has those same vehicles in the shot, even when going back through multiple years and multiple pinpoints.  Does anyone know for sure that www.i95exitguide.com uses GSV and not some other source for its images?

[hotdogPi]

New Concord-Dover, from I-95 exit guide

That's GSV.

How do you know?

Blurring of random letters.

I found the location of the sign in question on Google Maps, and I don't see any GSV imagery that has those same vehicles in the shot, even when going back through multiple years and multiple pinpoints.  Does anyone know for sure that www.i95exitguide.com uses GSV and not some other source for its images?

I found it: September 2014 imagery, very close to the sign. Found here. (It's not the same image, as different letters are blurred, but the same vehicles are there.)

[kphoger]

Good job!

That makes the last valid play DES MOINES.

[hbelkins]

Good job!

That makes the last valid play DES MOINES.

Disagree. Just because a website uses GSV imagery shouldn't make that photo invalid. He played from that site, not GSV.

[kphoger]

Good job!

That makes the last valid play DES MOINES.

Disagree. Just because a website uses GSV imagery shouldn't make that photo invalid. He played from that site, not GSV.

So, can I take a screenshot of GSV, save the image to a photo hosting site, and then use that photo I just saved?  Maybe if I add some snazzy text and graphics...

[MNHighwayMan]

Yeah, I'm not apt to allowing any kind of GSV imagery, screenshotted and modified or not.

P.S. I'm not sure if you guys looked closely or not, but you can clearly see the Google watermark in that I-95 picture.

[Truvelo]

So are we playing from Des Moines or Dover? I haven't looked on Google Maps yet but I can tell by looking at the image it's from GSV. Not only for the reasons already mentioned but because the image is taken with a wide angle lens and the camera position is high up.

[kphoger]

Scott5114 hasn't yet weighed in on the debate, but 1 clearly identified the GSV shot used in the image.  (It's actually either DES MOINES or RICKMAN.)

[Jim]

Best I can tell, we're in Des Moines.  I will take us from there to Salem, South Carolina.  Taken July 17, 2018, in Holly Springs.

[oscar]

Salem => Mt. Orab (OH):

[MNHighwayMan]

Mount Orab → Ball Club, MN (or by the Ojibwe name, Baaga'adowaan) (along US-2)

[Jim]

From Ball Club, let's go to Bristol.  Tennessee or Virginia, you pick.  July 17, 2018.