Released: 2026-08-11
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meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 32
Distance: 10110km
Lat: 37.7749
Lng: -122.4194
The image shows a dirt road winding through a wooded area. The presence of lush greenery and the style of the road suggest a temperate region. The ’Google’ watermark indicates it’s a Google Street View image. While the exact location can’t be pinpointed without more specific features, the image’s characteristics are consistent with many areas in the United States or Europe. However, without distinct landmarks or signs, it’s challenging to determine the precise location. The coordinates provided are for San Francisco, California, as a placeholder, but the actual location could be elsewhere with similar geography.
google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 4393
Distance: 259km
Lat: 44.423984
Lng: 25.101837
The image displays a dirt road in a temperate forest environment with deciduous trees and ferns. The soil composition and vegetation are characteristic of the rolling hills and forested regions of Southern Romania. The overcast lighting and lack of specific road markings are consistent with rural Google Street View coverage in this part of Eastern Europe.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 3323
Distance: 817km
Lat: 43.2
Lng: 12.3
This image shows a rural dirt/gravel road with steep embankments and deciduous forest vegetation on both sides. The landscape characteristics, vegetation type, and road construction style suggest this is in central Italy, likely in the Umbria or Marche region. The green, lush vegetation and the style of the rural infrastructure are typical of central Italian hill country. The steep erosion patterns on the right embankment and the mixed deciduous forest are consistent with the Apennine foothill regions around central Italy.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 1961
Distance: 1872km
Lat: 43.052
Lng: -1.24
Rural, hilly gravel track through mixed broadleaf woodland with abundant bracken and ferns — vegetation and terrain typical of the Atlantic-facing Pyrenees/Western Basque hills. Road construction (narrow gravel track), gentle slopes and low stone-free soil also match pastoral footroads around Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port / western Pyrenees (approx. 43.05N, -1.24W).
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 1891
Distance: 1945km
Lat: 51.835
Lng: -2.651
The image depicts an unpaved gravel track winding through dense deciduous forest with bracken ferns on the roadside embankment. This type of forestry road and vegetation is characteristic of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, UK, which has extensive Google Street View coverage of its forest tracks. The overcast lighting and mixed broadleaf woodland with acidic soil indicators (ferns) support this temperate Atlantic climate location.
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.