Group Contact: Kim Looby, Kristen Finch, and Brent Fortner
What we do:
Come join fellow digital world travelers in the newest group: Geographical and Cultural Interface Discovery, aka playing the currently popular online game GeoGuessr (yes, without the second "e''). Join your fellow traveling and cultural enthusiasts and work together to identify famous or obscure libraries, beaches, towers, religious sites, museums, castles, city squares, bridges, and restaurants. How does the game work? The game uses the Google Maps interface and puts you down on street view either in one of the above-themed locales OR in a completely random place, depending on how you play the game. You then use clues like identifying the local language from signs, identifying architecture types, street signs, car models, phone area codes if you are really talented, or website addresses for country identification if you're really lucky. Since it is played together, you get to learn about your colleagues' knowledge of the world and their travels in an exciting way, BECAUSE, the closer you guess where you are on the map, the more points you get. The further away you are from your guess, the more points you lose. But don't worry, no one cares about points. The founding members of this group are just pleased if we get within a few hundred miles of the right city or at least in the right country. Don't feel like you need to have extensive travel or geographical knowledge; you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much you already know about the world. If you can recognize the Canadian flag, you're already a valuable member of this group-- sometimes is that easy.
Meeting Dates
Weekly Wednesday from 2-3 in Atkins 123.