Guess the City

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.

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

is it somewhere in scandanavia?

is it helsinki? is that what helsinki looks like?

That green building looks Russian or Ukrainian. Maybe Dniepropetrovsk?

Or Tomsk, idk.

Has taken me about 100 goes on that geoguessr.com site to land somewhere I've actually been! (Cocoa Beach, FL)

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?

no hits yet but closer

The bottom row of buildings looks like classic imperial Russian architecture but I'm thrown by the marsh stretching of into the distance.

I bet it's Vladivostok.

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

Nakhichevan was a field of wheat away.

so... where was it?

not sure what a field of wheat is in this context

are you "nakhichevan"?

i think so

unless he means the place, but it doesnt look like anything in anatolia or the caucusus

Volgograd, maybe?

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.

matty
buddy

i need another hint, something....

please.

Kiev.

*farts*

rostov-on-don

Nakhichevan-on-Don
In 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.

jeez.
good one.

i got the pic from roman flugel's fb. probably from a hotel?

http://i.imgur.com/haEJ0Co.jpg

Moscow!

eeeezy I'd know that subway map anywhere

the moscow subway stations are really cool/ornate.

unfortunately, i wasn't there long enough to get to visit this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dostoyevskaya_%28Moscow_Metro%29

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Dostoyevskaya_station_%28Moscow_Metro%29.jpg/800px-Dostoyevskaya_station_%28Moscow_Metro%29.jpg

A fairly easy one:

http://i.imgur.com/gve0SzG.jpg

Dubrovnik?

Not Dubrovnik.

I realise that saying it's relatively easy is a) probably not true and b) potentially misleading, now. I'm pretty sure some ILXors will have been there though.

http://geoguessr.com/

(google earth game of guess where the hell you are)

scored 8959

okay somehow I wound up on the field in a stadium and I can only go in a circle around the field

Ha, I did that too (I think it's in Japan somewhere)

is the underground transit mass grave scene in the background of dayo's pic one of those dancing gorilla things you only see if you are concentrating specifically on it or is there another reason nobody is mentioning it

https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=soccer+cafe+wolfsburg&fb=1&gl=us&hq=soccer+cafe&hnear=0x47af92424757e6b1:0x425ac6d94ac3ad0,Wolfsburg,+Germany&cid=0,0,13740006234275570925&ei=vsfIUeHeNqvi4APbiYFQ&ved=0CLIBEPwSMAQ

http://bit.ly/12lNbO1 i just got 10,890 on this. Challenge my score!

http://bit.ly/16vwSTo 18726. Weird how we ended up almost exactly the same distance from the random bit of landmark-free countryside in Canada.

10387 ooh

maybe should be a separate thread, don't want to derail this one

is the underground transit mass grave scene in the background of dayo's pic one of those dancing gorilla things you only see if you are concentrating specifically on it or is there another reason nobody is mentioning it

I wondered that, but I didn't mention it because no-one was mentioning it.

is it cheating to use another browser window to google stuff like names of businesses and towns or is that part of the game?

Oh, I totally do that. Makes up for the times when you land on a random stretch of highway with nothing but trees in sight.