Guess the City

Ho Chi Minh City

― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver),

South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC

@ map

Tampico, Mexico

(I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges until Puente Tampico showed its hideous face)

South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC

― cherry blossom

Is it Vientiane?

it is! that's the biggest street in the Laotian capital, as viewed from the "vertical runway" (a giant stone arch thing made with concrete which the USA donated for the building of an airport)

I was there for a few days in 2005, perhaps the most laid back capital I've ever visited.

this is from when I was there in 2008, yes very laid back, big contrast to horrible Vang Vieng

I had a lot of fun in Vang Vieng but I was only young.

it was like Bad Boy Island in Pinocchio, thought I saw someone die within an hour of arriving.

I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges

i thought of this except a) using wikipedia or something as I hadn't heard of structurae and ii) i wrote it off as insane as there are probably a million cable stayed bridges. so, kudos.

I did look at about a thousand bridges until I found the one

https://i.postimg.cc/rcHnyZPh/Screenshot-2021-01-16-at-16-23-11.png

Well in that case

I was looking for tallest, diamond shaped cable-stayed, anything to narrow it down but it's clearly not particularly tall or particularly anything so I found nothing xp

Does anyone here play geoguessr?

I did for a while last year, but mainly just watch GeoWizard videos nowadays instead!

I played geoguessr in class sometimes when it was free, you get hardly anything in the free version now

it was like Bad Boy Island in Pinocchio, thought I saw someone die within an hour of arriving.

― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

I think perhaps it deteriorated somewhat in the three years between our visits.

cityguessr is a reasonable alternative to geoguessr but cities only

With those games there are clues which make sense in that context but wouldn't work on Guess The City (if a phone number appears someone would just google it)

https://i.postimg.cc/rcHnyZPh/Screenshot-2021-01-16-at-16-23-11.png

Second view

The differences between that one and the first view are... subtle :)

This feels like the US Midwest to me

That's what I thought too FWIW, I wondered whether it was Rockford, IL but it's not.

Oops, I'm not sure where the other image is maybe I only uploaded one. I'll find and post the other one tonight

The bluffs coming up off the river remind me of La Crosse but the Mississippi is way wider than this in this part of the country.

Looks too hilly for the midwest, though that might be because I grew up in Illinois

Driftless Zone baby

oh yeah it's by no means impossible -- it's just my personal "looks like the US midwest" = a flat cornfield with nary a bump for hundred of miles, so my thoughts went more to western PA or like Hudson Valley type places

Western PA is also the US Midwest by many people's lights, but I think we already have a thread for that...

It's worth noting that there are TWO bridges in that photo, the suspension one in the foreground and a tied arch bridge behind it. Tied arch bridge suggests a railway. It looks like Ontario, and even vaguely familiar, but I can't place it at all.

There's a symbol on the bike path. Also looks like it's a historical park with a some sort of sign in the foreground. Not that I have any intuitions about the city....

Really looks like an Ohio River town. I noticed the two bridges, but the couple of places that had two bridges weren't those types.

That's a city?

I said the same thing to myself, Tom

I was thinking Ohio River too. Looks like some places near Cincinnati maybe.

Ok its not Chicago or Chengdu but there have been at least two places many multiples smaller than this one that got guessed!

I don't know exactly how US cities are defined but seems like they can be almost any size.

Perth is a city, Tom. people in glass hooses...

Where's the second view?? I'm intrigued by this one now.

same!

(xxp) Yes, but, for instance, there are 69 cities in New York State alone (there's 62 in the entire UK) ranging in size from 8,175,133 to 3,071! Admittedly one of the UK cities only has a population of 1,841 but that's only through some daft religious designation of a city in medieval Wales.

I'm basically playing "guess the river", trying to see what rivers are of this width in which cities. I think I've ruled out Michigan

I've been googling green suspension bridge/next to green tied arch bridge/green truss bridge/sculpture of bridge/sculpture of tied arch bridge/public park/by river and every combo thereof but nothing

Like everybody else I'm convinced it's US

xxxp but there are also very large towns, for example 337,000 people in Reading / surrounding built-up area, and that's not a city, has this come up as a point of contention on this thread before?

Of course, I just don't know how so many miniscule towns in the US are designated as cities.

Wondering how unusual it is that the river is quite narrow (narrower than much of the Ohio river from what I've seen) yet there are two bridges quite close together for a river that narrow. Not noticing anything that fits whizzing between Pittsburgh and St Louis on GMaps and as far south as Memphis and Charlotte.

Things like the words “city”, “town”, “village” etc often have specific legal definitions in different states. In Michigan for example everything is in a “township” by default, some of those are “charter” townships, some municipalities are “villages” and others are “cities” depending on how much autonomy they have from the surrounding townships.

Then multiply all that by 50 states

No one complained when we had Seascale! (population 1,754)

Ok let me get that second view

https://i.postimg.cc/dQgfnjTm/Screenshot-2021-01-19-at-17-24-58.png

Another Look