Английская Википедия:GeoWizard

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Thomas George Davies (born 1990), better known online as GeoWizard, is a British YouTuber and adventurer known for his skill in playing the internet geography game GeoGuessr and his "straight line mission" adventures, in which he attempts to cross regions on foot in as close to a straight line as possible.

Career

Growing up in Aldridge, West Midlands, Davies held a number of jobs before becoming successful on YouTube, including as a fishmonger, van driver, and bartender.

GeoGuessr

Davies registered his YouTube channel, "GeoWizard", on 15 May 2015, building it around the game GeoGuessr, a browser game in which the player must identify locations in Google Street View. As of May 2023, Davies has over 1.2 million subscribers and over 204 million views across all his public videos.

Cross-country missions

Davies undertakes "straight line missions", in which he uses a GPS device to attempt to cross a geographic area in a straight line. His first attempt, in 2019, was to cross Wales. A mix of bad weather and steeper terrain than expected resulted in failure Шаблон:Cvt from the coast. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Davies and his friend Greg attempted to cross Wales, but the effort was aborted midway for health reasons. Later in 2020, Davies successfully crossed Norway in a straight line. In early 2021, Davies and Greg attempted to cross Scotland but failed when they were caught by police for breaking local COVID-19 guidelines. Their video was criticised for showing them crossing a live railway line, and Davies edited that scene out of the video following a visit from the British Transport Police. In October 2021, Davies and his brother Ben attempted to cross Wales for a third time. The pair managed to complete the crossing, but a GPS battery malfunction on day three caused them to temporarily leave the line, making it non-continuous.

In April 2022, Davies released a new type of adventure, called the No Roads Mission, where he attempted to cross the Black Country without using any roads. In June 2023, he attemped another one, this time over two episodes, in which he, along with his brother Ben, attempted to cross Birmingham without using roads or the city's canal network, with some help from their uncle Ed instead of Verity this time.

In August 2022, Davies and a small support crew dribbled a football across the width of Britain along Hadrian's Wall Path in a continuous run. Starting on the west coast, they walked and jogged the Шаблон:Convert route in approximately 23 hours, stopping only for brief periods for food and water. Davies was the only member of the team to touch the football, making no hand contact with it at any point and becoming the first person to achieve this feat. The event was recorded and named Dribbling Britain, and raised £70,000 for charities supporting efforts to end youth homelessness, improve men's mental health, and reduce youth violence. In January 2023, on his fourth attempt, Davies successfully crossed Wales in a continuous straight line, claiming to be the first person to have done so. Later that year, Davies—along with friends Ben Cook and Adam Cook—ran across Wales from the border with England, near Anchor, to the coast at Aberystwyth, in under fourteen hours. Parts of the route were covered by more than Шаблон:Convert of snow and temperatures reaching Шаблон:Convert.

In December 2023, Davies and fellow straight line mission YouTubers Adam and Archie Fieldhouse raced each other across the Isle of Man in the channel's first "straight line race," which was won by the latter team.

How Not to Travel

In his series How Not to Travel, Davies and Greg embark on long journeys with little planning and the intent of using as many methods of transport as possible, such as hitchhiking, cycling, kayaking, or scootering. This series currently has two seasons: How Not to Travel Europe (2019–2020), documenting a journey from Geneva, Switzerland to Bratislava, Slovakia; and How Not to Travel America (2022–2023), covering a trip down the East Coast of the United States from Boston to Miami.

Music

Davies composes music under the name Amynedd and uses it to underscore his videos. In 2020, he released the album 16-Bit Adventure.

Personal life

Davies is married to Verity, who has appeared in his videos and acted as support crew for his straight line missions.

External links

• Шаблон:Official website
• Шаблон:YouTube
• GeoWizard's channel on Twitch
• "16-Bit Adventure" on Spotify