Since GeoGuessr isn’t free anymore, here’s a list of interactive experiments from Google chrome for my fellow geography students/hobbyists:
Lines - draw lines and find comparable matches across a satellite imagery database
radio around the world - listen to radio stations across the world by panning and scrolling
Make your own human development tree (anthropology and social sciences) Build a tree with specific life expectancy/schooling/etc criteria and see how it pans out in the real world.
Globe viewer - see how different times of day influence global light distribution
A year in the life of earth's CO2- visualizing atmospheric distribution of CO2 over time. Also has WICKED cool map distortion for easy visualization. Never seen an interactive map that distorts quite like this.
Explosion - Click on the globe and make part of it explode. Not really educational but kind of weirdly calming.
What did earth look like x million years ago? - this is my personal favorite. Plug in a location and set a date range and see where your location was x million years ago. I'm honestly obsessed.
Passport Power (Travelscope)- visualizing visas and passports across countries. Super helpful for writers and travelers alike.
A World of Change - see how different cities view climate change and potential climate change solutions through google search trend analysis
Disclaimer: I changed some of the names here for a better descriptor of what the tool does.
Also here's the main homepage for other experiments. It's incredible and super interdisciplinary- highly recommend just browsing around for a while. (13/10 recommend the music experiments like this one which lets you create music from drawn shapes. I've been looking for something like this for almost a year. )
Again, these are just ways to pass the time if you're leaning towards a more educational geography game approach. I've found some adequate actual game replacements for geoguessr like City Guessr and Hide and Seek World too. None of them quite live up to their predecessor, but they're still pretty great. Unfortunately a lot of the other geo game links no longer work (thanks to Google spiking up their prices) or they just aren't as fun. Here's a good resource for some other great games tho.
RIP Geoguessr. You are dearly missed.
