Released: 2026-06-07
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meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 4918
Distance: 33km
Lat: 40.9527
Lng: 21.1383
The image depicts a straight, two-lane road with a rural landscape and mountains in the distance. The road markings and the presence of power lines suggest a country with a relatively developed infrastructure. The vegetation and climate appear to be characteristic of a temperate region. Based on the road’s condition and the surrounding landscape, I estimated the location to be in a rural area of Eastern Europe or the Balkans. The presence of mountains in the distance and the specific type of vegetation led me to guess a location in Northern Greece, near the city of Florina.
google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 4372
Distance: 269km
Lat: 42.131109
Lng: 24.363991
The image displays a landscape typical of the Balkan region, specifically Bulgaria. The road markings consisting of a solid white outer line and a broken white center line, combined with the characteristic rolling hills, dry summer vegetation, and mountain ranges in the distance, suggest a location south of the Balkan Mountains. This specific stretch of road matches the Pazardzhik-Plovdiv region in central Bulgaria.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 2813
Distance: 1150km
Lat: 39.5
Lng: 34.8
This image shows a straight, well-maintained highway through a flat, semi-arid landscape with sparse vegetation and scattered trees. The terrain, road quality, and landscape characteristics are consistent with central Anatolia in Turkey. The flat steppe-like terrain with sparse green vegetation, the style of the road markings, and the distant mountains suggest this is likely in the Ankara/Konya region of Turkey. The landscape features typical of the Turkish Plateau indicate this is somewhere in central Turkey.
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
anthropic
Score: 4720
Distance: 115km
Lat: 41.8
Lng: 22.5
The landscape shows a flat to gently rolling terrain with dry grasslands, scattered trees, and hills in the background. The road markings, vegetation, and overall scenery are consistent with the Balkans region - likely North Macedonia or Bulgaria. The dry summer vegetation, road style, and mountainous backdrop suggest this is somewhere in the interior of North Macedonia, possibly near Štip or along a main road in the central/eastern part of the country.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 2910
Distance: 1082km
Lat: 39.55
Lng: 34
Wide, straight two-lane road through a dry, grassy agricultural plain with low rounded hills in the distance and lattice transmission towers — landscape and vegetation consistent with the Anatolian plateau in central Turkey. Road markings (narrow white edge line, broken white centre line) and the sparse roadside trees match rural Turkish highways rather than wetter Western European countryside.
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 4051
Distance: 421km
Lat: 42.4
Lng: 26.2
The image depicts a two-lane paved road with European-style white dashed center markings running through flat to gently rolling rural terrain. The landscape features semi-arid grasslands with scattered deciduous trees and low hills in the distance, characteristic of a continental climate zone. The vegetation (dry grass with green shrubs), soil color, and cloud patterns are consistent with the Balkan region, particularly the Thracian Plain in Bulgaria or southern Romania. The lack of distinct geographic features like high mountains or coastal vegetation, combined with the specific road infrastructure quality, suggests this is likely in eastern Bulgaria along a national road such as the I-6 or I-7 corridors, possibly near Karnobat or Stara Zagora.
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.