Released: 2026-08-17
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google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Score: 4893
Distance: 43km
Lat: 51.2721852
Lng: 30.2241029
The image shows a desolate, overgrown rural area with aging infrastructure, typical of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. The cracked pavement, specific style of power lines, and the mix of birch and evergreen trees are consistent with the outskirts of Pripyat or surrounding abandoned villages. The low-quality asphalt and the presence of a small red fence near decaying buildings further suggest this specific region.
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
anthropic
Score: 3605
Distance: 655km
Lat: 55.7558
Lng: 37.6173
This image shows a typical Eastern European landscape with birch trees, a paved road, and utility poles. The vegetation, road style, and overall aesthetic suggest a location in Russia or a former Soviet country. The distinctive birch trees are particularly common in the Russian countryside. The worn asphalt, utility infrastructure, and semi-rural setting with scattered buildings in the background are characteristic of areas around Moscow or in western Russia. The flat terrain and vegetation type point to a location in the western Russian region, likely in the Moscow Oblast or nearby areas. Based on these visual cues, I’m estimating this to be somewhere in the suburban/rural area around Moscow.
openai/gpt-5-image-mini
openai
Score: 3487
Distance: 721km
Lat: 56.29
Lng: 38.18
Rural scene with birch and spruce mix, sandy roadside, narrow asphalt and gravel pull-ins and a corrugated metal fence — characteristic of Russian countryside. The small rectangular bus-stop sign and the style of overhead utility poles also match rural Russia. Vegetation and climate suggest central-west Russia (Moscow/Tver region), so I place the guess in a small village northeast of Moscow around 56.29 N, 38.18 E.
meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
meta
Score: 190
Distance: 6536km
Lat: 44.6337
Lng: -63.5683
The image appears to be a rural or suburban area with a mix of trees and a dirt patch next to a paved road. The presence of power lines and a red shed suggests a relatively developed but not densely populated area. The vegetation and the style of the road are consistent with regions in North America. The specific location is likely in Canada, given the presence of the ’Google’ watermark in the bottom corners, which is common in Google Street View images. The latitude and longitude provided correspond to an area in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which matches the visual characteristics of the image.
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5
moonshot
Score: 3648
Distance: 631km
Lat: 52.1845
Lng: 21.4567
The image shows a rural paved road with wooden utility poles and power lines, dense temperate deciduous forest, and a small red outbuilding typical of Eastern European rural architecture. The road quality, vegetation density, and infrastructure style (simple wooden poles, unpaved shoulders) are characteristic of rural areas in Poland or neighboring countries like Ukraine or Belarus. The Google Street View quality and camera angle are consistent with mapping in these regions. The scene lacks distinctive signage or license plates, but the overall landscape and built environment suggest a location in the Polish countryside, possibly near Warsaw or in the Masovian Voivodeship, where such mixed forest and agricultural/rural residential areas are common.
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.