Guess the City

Yep, Saltburn

99. Is it Jim Thorpe?

this is cool
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=satellite

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/3182129980_226dff369e_b.jpg

^^ 99 isn't Jim Thorpe, still unguessed

altoona?

that's impossible but yeah it looks like some pa mining town

why's it impossible? i'm basing my guess on the little bit of yellow i see at the bottom of the beige mercury sable or whatever's license plate, plus the rolling hills, plus the too small to be pittsburgh.

because it looks a lot like a couple places in pa i think. it's hard to tell them apart.

almost looks too big to be altoona to me

it's ashland, pa!

^^ flickr confirms this as fact! sorry, cherry blossom, for webmail summoning you to this thread needlessly.

does winner choose the next photo, is that how this thread works?

i wanted to go read though! i can pick one tomorrow or something.
i'm amazed i knew because there must be 100 places that look like that but i just thought it looked like that one place i made my dad detour to so we could see centralia but i forgot what it was called. i remembered there were signs for anthracite real estate there and i googled it to remember it was ashland.

oh when i said it was impossible i meant it was impossible to guess, not impossible that it was altoona. i don't know what altoona looks like.
can someone put up another? i'm no good at picking one

I had promised I wasn't going to play this any more, but here's 105:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2308/bigboat.jpg

Well, the ship's the QE2, which doesn't really narrow it down that much really, since it's been everywhere. I'll guess Honolulu.

You usually guess mine instantly, ailsa, but not this time. Here's another angle:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/914/noboat.jpg

miami?
</lazy>

galveston?

the downtown structure def. looks north american, and that little jetty looks forested, and the light makes it look fairly high latitude, which makes me think it's in canada, but since there are no mountains within ~50 miles of the first shot, it's not vancouver. maybe an atlantic city like halifax? thunder bay?

You're all way off.

A Coruna? Valencia?

perth?

(not the one in scotland)

None of those. I could post a suitably gritty street scene, if you'd prefer to guess from micro rather than macro.

i thought maybe it was perth earlier, but it doesn't seem to match the google maps aerial. then i checked all 100K+ cities in new zealand, no go. can you tell us which hemisphere this is in? i've already spent way too much time on this one.

yeah post that street scene

Yeah, I've just been googling round European ports with no joy.

durban?

that looks like a rugby ground to me

the buildings almost look too modern to be a developed european city, plus the stadium in the lower left of the second picture looks like a soccer stadium now that i think about it. so now i think this is def. south america and not def. north america like i thought before.

(yes, or "rugby")

is it kingston

I thought it was an athletics ground or a v. old football stadium

http://i47.tinypic.com/2vimsg5.jpg

bermuda

Durban

Results 1 - 10 of about 10,500 for "mr phone". (0.17 seconds)

damn it

Correct ailsa, but caek gets the points!

I googled MTN, found they were South African, and went straight for Durban on google maps

(the ground is a cricket ground, btw)

Sorry for postponing your moment of triumph, caek, but the street scene picture took about ten minutes to upload - I was bloody well posting it after that wait.

Oh, I never even spotted caek saying Durban. FAIL!

hahah

someone else post one

i'm on dialup, too slow to go looking for a good one

durban was a really good one, btw.

http://i45.tinypic.com/1425t2q.jpg

That's beautiful. I'm bowing out now though, I've got work to get on with - you pesky kids have already cost me an hour.

http://i49.tinypic.com/k05z09.jpg

likewise ismael! and excellent work, caek. i had tried cape town after abandoning canada (???) but then went elsewhere...

ailsa yours can be 107 and mine'll be 106.