Guess the City

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

That looks so much like Ontario. Is it London?

It's a very US-looking street sign, but maybe they're the same in English-speaking Canada?

It feels like Dubuque, IA but the river is just too small.

It's a very US-looking street sign, but maybe they're the same in English-speaking Canada?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:40 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

those street signs could be in canada.

i would guess ontario somewhere but i have only been to toronto, belleville and bancroft and it isn't one of those

The "window open on a miserable day" is kinda the cue for me

I don't think it's Ontario any more... it just doesn't fit any town/city I can think of

It's not Quebec ("STOP")

The distant "historical-looking" house on the hill suggests this is an older town

The pathetic bandshell in the park suggests ~20-40k population

i don't think it's concord nh (not hilly enough), youngstown oh (idk looks different). feels like maybe somewhere in penn. the river looks like it cuts through some limestone maybe.

On closer look, I think the street sign (the one with the name of the street) above the One Way sign on the left is dark red, which is rare though not unknown in the US; does Canada do this?

Then again, the giant silver SUV is a signal of Americanness

All this North American fine-tuning is gonna seem dumb when we find out it's Trondheim

lol

i say this about every city posted itt but it looks like a cool place, would visit. i like raininess, rivers, humidity and brick buildings, lol.

Then again, the giant silver SUV is a signal of Americanness

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 11:30 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we have these here too. some of them are even built here.

On closer look, I think the street sign (the one with the name of the street) above the One Way sign on the left is dark red, which is rare though not unknown in the US; does Canada do this?

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 11:28 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otoh i don't think that we have these