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by anthomtb5 hours ago |
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upvoteby gus_massa4 hours ago|
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I was confused by the image too:

A few images: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=4e98a81333b88c42&udm=2...

Map with elevation: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gates+of+Lodore/@40.585090...

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upvoteby indoordin0saur4 hours ago|
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Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.
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upvoteby dylan6042 hours ago|
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The content you create is only as good as the stock footage you have available to you. It's not like these people are trekking to the locations to acquire their own content. If you search in stock libraries for mountaineering in the Andes, and it only brings you footage from the Himalayas you're just going to use it.
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upvoteby PyWoody4 hours ago|
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Simple, lazy stuff like that always drives me up the wall.

The HGTV show House Hunters used to be wildly inaccurate with their map location pins. On more than one occasion they'd say a couple is from the Bay Area but when they show the map the location pin would be in LA County. Like, come on. That's not even close.

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upvoteby toast01 hours ago|
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There's a lot of duplicated geographic names in Northern and Southern California. If the production house isn't in the area, it's hard, close enough.

I lived in Burbank, but I was in the unincorporated area of Santa Clara County, not the incorporated city in LA County. Incidentally, I was living in the South Bay, but not the South Bay in LA County, or the South Bay in San Diego County.

Anyway, perhaps the couple is from the Bay Area, but their house is in LA County right now. :P

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upvoteby PyWoody1 hours ago|
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A specific one that I'll never forget was actually a House Hunters International episode. It was years ago but the pin being off by about 400 miles burned it into my memory lol

I think they were moving from Market Street to Amsterdam.

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upvoteby IncreasePosts32 minutes ago|
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Clearly they're referring to the Santa Monica Bay Area
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upvoteby dylan6042 hours ago|
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Maybe the pin was closer and they were lying about it being in the Bay Area???

Also, no need for exact location for these pins. The new home owners probably are fine with it not being exact

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upvoteby gedy2 hours ago|
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I think it's largely because they are "content creators" instead of trying to tell a story or share information.
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upvoteby indoordin0saur2 hours ago|
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I'll notice this with TV documentaries and segments on news channels quite frequently as well. I have the "GeoGuessr gene" as well as being decently well travelled so I spot this stuff all the time. One particular pet peeve of mine is movies or shows mean to be shot in medieval Europe but the "forest" they use is actually a tree plantation of North American native trees such as Sitka Spruce.
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upvoteby legitster2 hours ago|
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> Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain

Using what they can from free, public domain sources.

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upvoteby wil4214 hours ago|
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Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
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upvoteby MarkusQ3 hours ago|
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Sadly, they "learned" it from us. People have been doing this sort of shoddy fill work since the dawn of television (and even earlier if you count wildly misplaced / inaccurate textual descriptions).
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upvoteby terminalshort3 hours ago|
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Judging by the performance of AI agents at Geoguessr I suspect such errors are almost 100% humans:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-geniu...

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