Released: 2026-02-24
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google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 3771
Distance: 564km
Lat: 44.9126284
Lng: 16.591238
The architecture of the house, specifically the hip roof with dark metal sheeting and the simple concrete/plaster facade, is very characteristic of rural housing in the Balkans, particularly in regions like Bosnia and Herzegovina or Croatia. The landscape features overgrown fields and deciduous trees common in Southeastern Europe. The presence of the blue and white triangular traffic sign further narrows the location down to this region.
x-ai/grok-4-fast
x-ai
Score: 83
Distance: 8208km
Lat: 41.5865
Lng: -93.625
The image depicts a small, weathered house with a dark roof in a flat, rural landscape surrounded by tall, dry grasses typical of Midwest farmlands in late summer or fall. The presence of a paved road with shoulder, power lines, and sparse vegetation points to agricultural areas in Iowa, USA. The architecture resembles typical American rural outbuildings. Coordinates estimated near Des Moines, Iowa, based on visual matching to Google Street View imagery in that region.
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 4809
Distance: 78km
Lat: 48.6789
Lng: 21.2953
The image appears to be a rural scene with a single-story house in a field. The architecture and vegetation suggest a location in Eastern Europe. Based on the Google Street View imagery and the style of the house, I estimate the location to be in Slovakia or Ukraine. The coordinates are near the town of Michalovce in eastern Slovakia.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 4247
Distance: 327km
Lat: 45.8
Lng: 24.5
This image shows a rural Eastern European landscape with characteristic features: a small white house with a metal roof in a corn/sorghum field, flat terrain, unpaved rural road, and wooden fence posts. The architectural style, vegetation, agricultural practices, and overall landscape composition are typical of rural Romania or Moldova. The building style with the distinctive roof and the way the house is situated in agricultural land is particularly common in the Wallachian or Moldavian regions. The flat terrain and crop type suggest this is likely in central or southern Romania, possibly in the region between the Danube and Carpathians, or in Moldavia. Based on these regional indicators, I’m estimating coordinates in central-eastern Romania.
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
anthropic
Score: 4326
Distance: 290km
Lat: 46.2
Lng: 19.8
The image shows a typical rural scene from the Hungarian Great Plain or possibly northern Serbia (Vojvodina). The building style - a single-story stucco/plaster house with a hip roof (likely metal/tin roofing) - is very characteristic of rural Hungary or Serbia. The flat agricultural landscape, overgrown vegetation along a narrow paved road, and the road marker post style all suggest this is somewhere in the Pannonian Basin region, likely southern Hungary or northern Serbia. The Google watermark confirms this is from Google Street View. The architectural style and landscape most closely match rural southern Hungary or Vojvodina, Serbia.
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
qwen
Score: 98
Distance: 7868km
Lat: 42.92
Lng: -89.35
The image shows a rural landscape with a single-story building, tall grasses, and a country road, indicative of midwestern U.S. agricultural areas. The vegetation and building style suggest a location in Wisconsin, where such landscapes are common. Approximate coordinates are based on typical rural settings in this region.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 3291
Distance: 837km
Lat: 55.7
Lng: 24
Rural Eastern European look: single‑storey plaster house with red metal roof, flat farmland, late‑summer tall grasses and wildflowers. The triangular warning road sign on a slim post matches Baltic/Lithuanian road furniture more than Western Europe. Vegetation and building style suggest central Lithuania (area near Panevėžys) rather than southern Europe or the British Isles.
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 4090
Distance: 402km
Lat: 51.8543
Lng: 21.5342
The image shows a rural scene with a single-story building featuring a metal hip roof and beige plaster walls, which is characteristic of rural architecture in Central/Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. The triangular yield sign on the right side of the road matches European road sign standards, specifically those used in Poland. The flat terrain, mixed vegetation with tall dry grasses and deciduous trees, and the style of the paved road suggest a location in the Polish countryside, likely in the Masovian or Lublin Voivodeship region where such isolated rural buildings are common. The Google Street View coverage and image quality are consistent with mapping in this region of Poland.
Each model receives the same Google Street View image. Models are tasked with guessing the location of the image using only visual clues from the street view. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.