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GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, GeoGuessr is an extreme example as Google basically did 95% of the work for them. Having to image large chunks of the world would mean a huge investment and I highly doubt GeoGuessr would even exist without Google Maps.

If Google would double their API pricing tomorrow there's very little GeoGuessr can do except maybe switch to Apple Maps (they offer an API, not sure they offer one for their "street view" data though).