Guess Switzerland in Street View
From Geneva to the Engadin: on the Switzerland map you stand somewhere between the Jura, the Plateau and the Alps and guess exactly where. Read the clues and you will be surprised how precise you can get.
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The map covers all of Switzerland, split into the Plateau (Mittelland), Eastern Switzerland, Graubünden, Valais, Ticino and Romandy. Only Street View imagery from 2012 or later appears.
Clues that help
- Language: German in the north and centre, French in Romandy in the west, Italian in Ticino and southern Graubünden, Romansh in parts of Graubünden. Place-name signs, ads and street names reveal the language region at once.
- Road signs: motorway signs are green, main-road signs blue and minor-road signs white. Yellow signposts mark hiking trails.
- Licence plates: white with black letters, starting with the canton code such as ZH, BE, VS or TI. If you can read a plate, you know the canton.
- Buildings: stone houses with stone-slab roofs in Ticino, Engadin houses with sgraffito in Graubünden, wooden chalets in the Bernese Oberland and Valais, half-timbered houses in Eastern Switzerland.
- Landscape: high mountains and narrow valleys point to Valais, Graubünden or Ticino; palm trees and lakes to Ticino; gentle hills with orchards to the Plateau and the east; the Jura ridges lie in the north-west.
- Transport: yellow PostBuses run everywhere, but the colours of city buses and trams often give away the city.
Scoring on this map
Switzerland is small, so every kilometre counts: 10 kilometres off scores about 3,600 points, 30 kilometres still about 1,800. Full 5,000 points within 25 metres.
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