Thanks largely to today's xkcd, I have spent the last half an hour playing this...

Geoguessr

Apologies to your respective employers/significant others.

I didn't do to bad considering I'm total poo at geography

Fun, got 10,885 for my first ten, not really trying too hard at start

Wow, I've been playing this for 3hrs I've just looked up and seen the time

Good fun, although a field in Khazakhstan looks pretty much like a field in Mexico, or Australia, or South Africa, or anywhere else

True, although I'm getting better.

Road signs and advertising boards are good clues.

And then use google maps to find where it is

Cheating?

Except when Google Maps don't know where the place in question is... still managed over five thousand points with the first two pictures - an anonymous chunk of the Alaska pipeline and some fields near the Great Lakes.

I honestly don't know how you could cheat with this...?

I navigate around the street view until I find something that gives me a clue (like the language a roadside advert is in, or the skin tone of pedestrians).

As you say, I navigate around the area looking for signs or shops then google the name of the shops using google maps, then zoom into street view and see if it looks the same.

I've managed a 0.005km distance from the starting point. It's stuck me in the middle of the desert in Australia and that took some navigating