There's various degrees of "solved" here. Identifying a generic area is cool. But I wouldn't call it a "solved problem" until it can consistently beat for example Rainbolt in accuracy. And there's no good comparison of completely random roads posted so far - mainly popular locations.
Basically, it's one thing to pick out a specific thing photographed thousands of times, but another to get a random country side view and pick out all the unique features for a very precise guess.
One problem is how can you even set up a "fair" competition between an AI and Rainbolt? He does ones where it flashes for a fraction of a second and then he guesses the country. How do you simulate "only saw it for a fraction of a second" to an AI?
Maybe limit the time the AI is allowed to think? In the post it showed the AI thought for almost a minute.
I’ve seen Rainbolt ID an image based on some dirt and nothing else. I’d want to see AI be able to do that before saying it’s a solved problem.
“This is the gradient of Senegal”
It’s fair, it just means he’s better and AI isn’t there yet.
This is probably the best attemp at consistently beating Rainbolt in accuracy: https://youtu.be/ts5lPDV--cU