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  2. GeoGuessr - Wikipedia

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    The game's HUD primarily features the Google Street View imagery, as well as a compass. Users can control the movement, panning, and zooming of the image, although GeoGuessr allows any of these features to be disabled for harder gameplay. An inset map, using Google Maps's standard overlay, allows players to place a pin to make their guess.

  3. List of geolocation-based video games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of geolocation-based video games, also known as location-based video games. The games on this list typically run on a mobile phone using GPS for geolocation. Some games on this list also have augmented reality features.

  4. Ingress (video game) - Wikipedia

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    The game's intel map showing game elements with a dark Google Maps baselayer. A player using their mobile device (or "scanner") is presented with a map representing the surrounding area. The map has a black background and is completely unmarked, except for buildings and roads outlined in grey but not labeled, and bodies of water.

  5. Google opens Maps to bring the real world into games - AOL

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    Pokémon Go and other games that use real-world maps are all the rage, but there's a catch: they typically depend on semi-closed map frameworks that weren't intended for gaming, forcing developers ...

  6. Location-based game - Wikipedia

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    A location-based game (also called location-enabled game, geolocation-based game, or simply geo game) is a type of game in which the gameplay evolves and progresses via a player's real world location. Location-based games must provide some mechanism to allow the player to report their location, usually with GPS.

  7. Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? - Wikipedia

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    The games utilize the Google Earth software, and runs as an add-on that can be played by clicking the icon of Carmen Sandiego. The game is played by Google's Chrome web browser on a PC, or with the Google Earth app on iOS and Android devices. [2] It aims to be a reimagining of the original 1985 video game, using Google Earth. [3]

  8. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google ... - AOL

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    Meanwhile, as of 2020, around a billion people use Google Maps, launched in 2005, every month. #13 Another Crashed Plane, This Time A Bomber From The Second World War I Think. Found Between Russia ...

  9. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and Stumbled ... - AOL

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    A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...