Current status

not functional as of now. check #3 for more. do not open duplicate issues.

Geotastic Helper

A userscript to ""help"" you win in Geotastic.

Works in all modes where you are supposed to pinpoint a location on a guess map from StreetView, i.e. Local mode, Online lobbies, and even matchmaking.

Installation

• First of all, you will need to install a userscript manager, such as Violentmonkey (It's free and open source!)

• Go to your preferred userscript manager's dashboard and choose the option to install a new script (usually indicated by a '+' sign).

• Choose install from URL and enter

https://github.com/dharmik2319/geotastic-helper/raw/master/geotastic-helper.user.js

and you're good to go.

Usage

• From the Geotastic homepage, choose any mode which you wish to play, whether online or offline mode.

Note that this script won't work with flag modes. Yet, at the least.

• After starting the game, you will notice a marker is placed at a position on the guess map, but the submit button is greyed out. This is because it is what I call a "fake" marker. You simply zoom into the map and place a "real" marker as close to it as possible and submit your guess. (NOT WORKING AS OF NOW. TO BE FIXED SOON. TILL THEN USE THE BELOW GIVEN METHODS. SEE #3)

• Except this, you can also:

1 - Simply show the Coordinates of the target location, using the javascript alert() function.

2 - Open the target coordinates in Google Maps in another tab, to cross reference with the guess map.

• You can simply press 1 or 2 to use this functionality.

Contributing

• Help is very much needed in order to implement new features, such as flag mode. For more info, check the Issues.
• If you create a pull request, then create a merge request to testing branch first.

Acknowledgements

• There is next to none documentation for cheating in Geotastic. The only thing I could find was this, which, not meaning to discredit the author, was very manual. Regardless, it inspired me and gave me the knowledge of the exact API request that I had to intercept. I have also contributed back to it in order to improve it.

• The most major help I got was from here. Though made for Geoguessr, and not Geotastic, a major portion of the code was reused from here with substantial editing, in order to adapt the script to Geotastic.

• The idea of hijacking the google.maps module was given to me by the Bing AI, though it was filled with problems which had to be fixed.

Disclaimer

• This completely ruins the fun of the game. Part of the reason I built this was for learning purposes, and also because it did not exist.