Comment by sally_glance
6 hours ago
Fascinating - I just got a little lost thinking about how and why you selected this exact image. If you were able to select a single image containing the maximum aggregate count of unique features for any given location and describe them textually, that would make a very useful training data set... for competitive geoguessr and neural networks alike!
I have had so many ideas related to this. Particularly around automation.
Because the way the community arrives at meta knowledge and its geographical distribution is very informal. There are quite a few false metas out there, or the commonly understood range of the meta is inaccurate.
What needs to happen is automated image recognition and mapping of the metas. I started building an open source tool that allows for people to do this manually, but it's quite a difficult project to do myself and I'm not pursuing it anymore. But I would like to see a less manual process emerge.