Guess Where SF

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Photos By David Gallagher, Drinks By Olive -- July 16	peephole	21	74 minutes ago
What's Your Score? Updated 7/15	Octoferret	108	10 hours ago
Hall of Fame	David Gallagher	199	21 hours ago
Hints added, part 2	Whole Wheat Toast	119	2 days ago
Oldies Found	David Gallagher	214	7 days ago
BREAKING NEWS: Karl Malden, the star of the Streets of San Francisco dead at 97	Whole Wheat Toast	4	8 days ago

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About Guess Where SF

Add a photo of San Francisco and see who can guess where it is!

Only a few rules!

1. The photo must be in the city of San Francisco. Photos taken on Alcatraz, Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island are all allowed.

2. It must be possible to identify where you took the photo by looking at it. It doesn't have to be easy, just possible. Photos without much context, such as ones of graffiti stencils, generally are removed. However, Guess Where SF is not a group to post any old photo of San Francisco. Don't post straight-up photos of locations everyone knows, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, City Hall or the Painted Ladies on Steiner Street.

3. Make sure that you don't give the photo's location away in your tags, title, caption or groupings. Make sure streets signs aren't visible in your photo, and don't place your photo on a map before it's been guessed!

4. If you have several photos of a single location, don't add them all to the pool. Add your favorite and reference the others in the caption or comments, if you want people to see them.

5. Answer guesses on your photos. Once a photo has been found, the group admins will be able to award the point for it. The latest scores are posted in the What's your score? discussion thread.

6. Check the Hall of Fame discussion thread to see the most frequently posted locations. Two examples of Hall of Fame locations are the new federal building at 7th and Mission and the Sentinel Building at Kearny and Columbus.

7. Don't take pictures of homeless people and put them in this game. It's not right.

8. If you're a GWSF regular with a lot of points, try to hold off for awhile on guessing photos that you think are easy enough that anyone could find so that people without many points have a chance to guess. Examples of such photos are straight-up photos of something everyone has seen like the sidewalks outside of the Embarcadero Center or ones that give away a lot of context in a well-traveled area, like a portrait of a person standing on Market Street, or ones of places that have been in the pool before. Obviously it can be hard to judge the difficulty of a photo, and the amount of time you should wait depends on how much time you think should be given to other people to guess, so this is more of a general guideline than a rule.


Tips

Check the Why your photos were removed from the group thread to see examples of photos that have been removed

Before posting a photo, use Jef's Comment Searcher to see if the same location has already been posted. Use it by typing in the name of the street your photo is on, or to narrow down the results, the name of the street and one of the cross-streets

Read this thread for more guidance: What makes a good GWSF photo?

You can tag your photos that haven't been found with 'unfoundinsf' and found photos with 'foundinsf'. It's not required, but it can help people quickly determine whether or not a photo has been found.

Some common terms used by members of this group:
WAG: "Wild-ass guess", which people sometimes put in front of a guess they think is likely to be wrong
HOF: Hall of Fame, or a location in that thread that has been posted at least three times
Top 10 (Or top 20 or something similar): The 10 (Or 20) members of the group with the most points. See the What's Your Score? thread for scores.

Tomas' list of unfound photos in the pool.
David's Unfound Photos with Thumbnails page

Inspired by flickr.com/groups/guesswhere/