Few people are better than Trevor Rainbolt at identifying obscure locations online — but there’s even more joy in watching him visit them IRL. By Tomas Weber Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from Arkansas ...

Trevor Rainbolt has garnered over 600,000 followers on TikTok with his uncanny ability to identify the country where photos on Google Maps were taken. You're probably pretty familiar with Google Maps.

For a little more than a year, Trevor Rainbolt has been playing GeoGuessr, a trivia game powered by Google Maps, for four to eight hours a day. The objective of GeoGuessr is simple: Players are placed ...

A popular online geography game is taking players around the globe, one Google Street View image at a time. John Yang speaks with Trevor Rainbolt, perhaps the game’s most famous player, for a look ...

If you haven't heard of it, GeoGuessr is basically competitive Google Maps. Participants try to guess where they are on the planet with just a single, random Google Street View photo. Pro GeoGuessr ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Trevor Rainbolt, 24, wearily rises, his eyes cataloguing the features of yet another Airbnb. Outside, Seville ...

If you’ve ever tried Geoguessr, the online game that challenges players to identify random locations from around the globe using only Google Street View, you know it can be a difficult task. But not ...

Trevor Rainbolt is a Google Maps expert with 1.5 million followers on TikTok. He's gone viral using his skills to help people pinpoint obscure locations with sentimental value. He told Insider he ...

One moment you’re squinting at a dusty petrol station in rural Argentina; the next, you’re stranded on a snow-swept track somewhere in Siberia. Armed with nothing but the visual clues around you, ...

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You're probably pretty familiar with Google Maps. That little GPS app in your pocket can show you the world, tell you how to get there and help you find the best food in that city. But have you ever ...