no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
helpful clue
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
ya none of that anywhere else in the world
looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.
oh lol jho :D
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
minsk
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
ah got it,
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
(by doing the ailsa thing)
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
birmingham, al?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
google is for cheaters
canada?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Pretty sure you are
#2
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok montreal alisa wins next city
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
istanbul?
oh boooooring xp to lol canada
my error was to GIS rather than GS
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
ankara
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)
Baghdad?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
Granny Dainger's is Montreal
― Jibe, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
haaaaaaaa
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ed - Lahore, right?
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
^win
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
#3.
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
THATS MONTREAL???
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
many xps obv
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
#3 url gives it away though
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
#3 is not very easy for Europeans
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was thinking upstate NY.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Damn I thought it was Legoland...
― snoball, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ithaca?
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Casper?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's in the Western US
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Vegas
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
it's about the size of Pittsfield, MA
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
or Casper, WY (which it isn't)
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
I got over 25000, due to landing next to places with googleable roadsigns (including an entrance to the Kruger National Park). Kostromo looks a nice place for a nosey about (that was the only one I was way off on, guessing it to be in one of the Baltic states)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 00:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:30 (1 week ago) Permalink
Oof. Uh. Harbin?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:35 (1 week ago) Permalink
it's reminding me of ho chi minh for some reason
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 02:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
no to those
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
guys how the fuck do you learn so much abt cities to be able to guess them like this, i want to learn to do this
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:42 (1 week ago) Permalink
i went to some and have seen footage of othera
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
others
go to enough places and it turns into elimination & working with the map
― anky, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
i want to go to all of the places
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
is it even in asia? i like the haerbin guess... decaying euro architecture and new apartment blocks. but i don't think it's china. if it is somewhere in asia, i want to say, like, a tough industrial south korean city like... busan? i don't know....
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
Looks superficially Asian, but my gut feeling now is somewhere formerly behind the Iron Curtain...
It's definitely not Korea. The cars are too colourful.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
the points against it being in asia are: the quietness of the street scene + no advertising or other shit all over the buildings + no obvious informal commercialization of public spaces + lack of development across the river
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:20 (1 week ago) Permalink
is it somewhere in scandanavia?
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:25 (1 week ago) Permalink
is it helsinki? is that what helsinki looks like?
That green building looks Russian or Ukrainian. Maybe Dniepropetrovsk?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
Or Tomsk, idk.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
Has taken me about 100 goes on that geoguessr.com site to land somewhere I've actually been! (Cocoa Beach, FL)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
Agreed that the lack of signage seems odd for China. What put me over there was the way the courtyard is organized...but that might be a red herring. I like the Iron Curtain angle...maybe one of the Asian Soviet states?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:29 (1 week ago) Permalink
no hits yet but closer
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:36 (1 week ago) Permalink
The bottom row of buildings looks like classic imperial Russian architecture but I'm thrown by the marsh stretching of into the distance.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:45 (1 week ago) Permalink
I bet it's Vladivostok.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
the copper roofed buldings suggest official architecture of former soviet union, the geography (low elevations to horizon, probable articial lake in proximity to river) suggests the eastern european plain, only the tower in the top left corner suggests post-FSU development, other buildings look relatively old, no development on far side of the river suggests relatively small city, narrowish river discounts lower volga
fairly sure it is either ukraine or russia, probably the latter
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
Nakhichevan was a field of wheat away.
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:32 (1 week ago) Permalink
so... where was it?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:08 (1 week ago) Permalink
not sure what a field of wheat is in this context
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:19 (1 week ago) Permalink
are you "nakhichevan"?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:34 (1 week ago) Permalink
i think so
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:37 (1 week ago) Permalink
unless he means the place, but it doesnt look like anything in anatolia or the caucusus
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:38 (1 week ago) Permalink
Volgograd, maybe?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 17 May 2013 19:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
Not ashamed to admit I spent the better part of an hour combing Google Earth views of Volgograd, Rostov, Baku and a few other Caucasus-ish cities. I couldn't find any matches for the view in that pic. Stumped.
― Millsner, Friday, 17 May 2013 19:31 (1 week ago) Permalink
mattybuddy
i need another hint, something....
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:22 (6 days ago) Permalink
please.
― dylannn, Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:53 (5 days ago) Permalink
Kiev.
― Grampsy, Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:00 (5 days ago) Permalink
*farts*
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:34 (4 days ago) Permalink
rostov-on-don
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:36 (4 days ago) Permalink
Nakhichevan-on-DonIn 1779, Rostov-on-Don became associated with a settlement of Armenian refugees from the Crimea. The two settlements were separated by a field of wheat. In 1928, the two towns were merged. The former town border lies beneath the Teatralnaya Square of central Rostov-on-Don.
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:38 (4 days ago) Permalink
jeez.good one.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 21:42 (4 days ago) Permalink
i got the pic from roman flugel's fb. probably from a hotel?
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:43 (4 days ago) Permalink