A man claims to have memorized all of Google Maps and can identify any country in the world with an image

Launched in February 2005, Google Maps is an application that offers scrollable map images as well as satellite photos of the world and even the route between different locations or images at street level with Google Street View, among other actions.

The apps It is currently a great help when searching for areas, addresses, and more actions. Therefore, memorizing streets or places is almost unnecessary. But incredible as it may seem, An American man claims to have memorized the entirety of Google Maps and is able to identify any place in the world simply by looking at a random image from Google Street View.

Trevor Rainbolt, American, is one of the best players in GeoGuessr of the world. In this game, people look at randomly selected Google Street View images and then guess where in the world they think they were taken.

Sharing his progress on TikTok, Rainbolt can identify a country just by looking at the trees, grass, or even the sky in an image. To find the place you only need to see an image for 0.1 secondsdetails Daily Star.

The man, who has never left the US to travel abroad, claims that he has played Geoguessr more than 10,000 times, which has given him the ability to learn what the world is like as a whole. He comments that he was ‘horrible’ at the game when he started it, but now says: “I really believe anyone can do this”.

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Explain that you can identify countries by identifying the small differences that make each one unique. For example, you can identify the UK or Singapore by the double yellow lines on the road or the color of the poles on the street.

“When you play so much, you get such an insight and such a vibe of what certain regions of the world look like that things become second nature and a sixth sense,” Rainbolt says, though he admits he has issues with certain regions, like telling the different areas apart. cities of Europe or identify Russia. (YO)