Oh that's basically Georgia!
A really good one because it's unexpected. If someone had said to me: this is near Izmir,.I would have totally believed them until I saw Mt. Elbrus. I've been to Izmir, highly recommended.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 15 April 2021 02:25 (three years ago) link
I like the huge dog print you see if you navigate just left in the first link cherry blossom posted there.
― nashwan, Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
I was really close to including the dog in the view, but there wasn't quite enough room to have the dog and the hill in the same view
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/3xdQRCR9/Screenshot-2021-04-15-at-16-34-26.png
What's he got in there?
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
It's probably not the UK (looks more like France maybe) but if it somehow is the UK then it reminds me a lot of Cheltenham
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
Portugal, maybe?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
the blue logo on the top right corner of his box is the shape of France, no?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
yeah it's a prepaid package from La Poste, like this one:https://prod.isg.bruneau.media/OMM/Images_Basse_Definition/ZoomHD/69/54/69545.jpg
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
the building on the left looks like a real estate agency
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
Is that a sliver of a gothic arch I see on the far right?
― nickn, Thursday, 15 April 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Isn't that a ridiculously small road for pedestrian traffic lights? I don't know what to make of that (a gigantic amount of pedestrians there?) - also, the poles are blue, which I don't think is the default color everywhere?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
Dropped down into a few cities in the south of France and so far the only one where i can find any of those blue pedestrian crossing posts is Montpellier
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
I thought the flower shop name could be "Aroma" but so far this has lead to nowhere
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 15 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
Looks more like it ends with "-ama" to me, and begins with an "O," but that has also led me nowhere.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
now I’m hoping it’s...Vichyyou hit me with a floweryou do it every hourObama, you’re so Vichy
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
earnest guffaw at that, breastcrawl.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
> Montpellier
back to Cheltenham then...
― koogs, Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
back to Cheltenham them...
― koogs, Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
love the origin story for viscious (sorry for the tangent)
Reed said it was Andy Warhol who provided fuel for the song. "He said, 'Why don't you write a song called 'Vicious,'" Reed told Rolling Stone in 1989. "And I said, 'What kind of vicious?' 'Oh, you know, vicious like I hit you with a flower.'
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
would help if I could spell
Montpellierback to Cheltenham them...― koogs, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:11 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:11 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Had to google this niche geographical quip
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
It would be a satisfying bit of synchronicity if correct tho
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 April 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
man, Montpellier is big :(
― StanM, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
and it may not even be there either :-)
Confirmation that it is indeed not Montpellier might be helpful here. I kind of got it into my head last night that it might be an unrepresentative area of Paris but that's even bigger
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
I thought ILXors were good at this, but no, Benjamin Kuo is the guy who's good at this
Unable to locate Mr. Compean through the photo’s metadata — he had disabled his cellphone’s location settings — the authorities disseminated it on social media, where it eventually landed on the radar of the Twitter user @ai6yrham, according to Sgt. John Gilbert, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman.The user, whose Twitter bio identifies him as a ham radio operator named Ben, responded to the Sheriff’s Department call for assistance on Tuesday morning with a thread that included satellite images and predicted the missing hiker’s coordinates. He wrote in a post that he had made sure to forward his predictions to the authorities.Later that afternoon, Mr. Compean was located by rescuers, safe with no known injuries, in Angeles National Forest.“I think, at least for our team, we haven’t had anything exactly like this,” Sergeant Gilbert said of the user’s assistance.In an interview with KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, the Twitter user, whom the station identified as Benjamin Kuo, said he leaned on the scenery captured in Mr. Compean’s photo to help him deduce the hiker’s location.“I’ve got a very weird hobby, which is I love taking a look at photos and figuring out where they’re taken,” Mr. Kuo told the station.
The user, whose Twitter bio identifies him as a ham radio operator named Ben, responded to the Sheriff’s Department call for assistance on Tuesday morning with a thread that included satellite images and predicted the missing hiker’s coordinates. He wrote in a post that he had made sure to forward his predictions to the authorities.
Later that afternoon, Mr. Compean was located by rescuers, safe with no known injuries, in Angeles National Forest.
“I think, at least for our team, we haven’t had anything exactly like this,” Sergeant Gilbert said of the user’s assistance.
In an interview with KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, the Twitter user, whom the station identified as Benjamin Kuo, said he leaned on the scenery captured in Mr. Compean’s photo to help him deduce the hiker’s location.
“I’ve got a very weird hobby, which is I love taking a look at photos and figuring out where they’re taken,” Mr. Kuo told the station.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/us/missing-hiker-found.html
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
"he had disabled his cellphone’s location settings"
he effectively had a gps device on him and instead he sent a photo of some rocks?
― koogs, Sunday, 18 April 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
He disabled his cellphone's GPS because he was hiking in the Bobcat Fire burn area and he was trying to avoid a $1000 fire. Every hiker in the San Gabriels is aware of which areas are closed off and the soot on the guy's legs in the original photo was a tip-off that he was in a restricted area. https://www.dailynews.com/2021/04/17/missing-hiker-found-in-bobcat-fire-burn-area-is-investigated/amp/Early in the pandemic, I was in a Zoom class that Kuo taught to help folks get their amateur radio. Solid dude - cool to see him get the kudos.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 18 April 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
that last cherry blossom pic is indeed montpellier, well done or something !
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6118854,3.8656341,3a,75y,82.92h,70.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSVpwW1ffD4I5DDyoKEb49Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
― Jibe, Monday, 19 April 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link
Ha wow, kudos on finding the spot Jibe, I'd stopped looking
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 19 April 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
Is that a sliver of a gothic arch I see on the far right?― nickn, donderdag 15 april 2021 18:39
― nickn, donderdag 15 april 2021 18:39
nickn was actually halfway there, that was the big clue, I guess: a section of the 18th century aqueduct
https://www.google.nl/maps/@43.6118532,3.8656526,3a,60y,105.72h,93.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZTewZhSE1Hp6k4OhpA26Zw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:15 (three years ago) link
"the Saint-Clément Aqueduct is nicknamed Les Arceaux for its double row of Roman-inspired arches"
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
― ignore the blue line (or something), lundi 19 avril 2021 13:48 (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
got lucky googling through quite a few variations of fleuriste + **ama until i found it
― Jibe, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
hah I was looking for "Ouama" or something like that - so off the mark as usual
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
the shop is called "Chuma" and it doesn't sell flowers, but decorations.
so all my searching Google Maps for "[city in southern France] + fleuriste" was not time well spent then
xp
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
...or maybe I just did it wrong!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
could be your search was too restrictive with the quotemarks and +, i just googled fleuriste chuma and it popped up
― Jibe, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:41 (three years ago) link
nickn was almost all the way there, especially once Montpellier was mentioned it just needed to be poked over the line. There was too much out there already to give any more!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
pretty sure i googled 'montpellier arch' and i didn't see any photos of the aqueduct - now i know what i'm looking for i see one or two. should've made good on my promise upthread and used yandex, there's loads on there.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
cherry blossom playing a hard game now, no longer enough just to name the city, they want the exact spot! I looked around the Arc de Triomphe in Montpellier but when I realised it wasnt that I kind of gave up on it
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
cherry blossom playing a hard game now, no longer enough just to name the city, they want the exact spot!
Has anyone made any progress on identifying the two men? My gut is telling me they're not locals, but not getting much of a reading on how far they've traveled in from
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
what is the skinny guy stooping over to inspect?
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Just assumed it was wine cos they're French
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
he might have spotted a bottle of blue nun in there
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
They’re both named “Claude”.
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 April 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
Claude au Trent
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/8z20ZFwh/f.png
monday
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
Looks to me a lot like a building in a New England college with the framed picture a painting of the early buildings of said college
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Looked briefly for views of 18th century Harvard but don't see a match for that set of buildings
what, we’re doing Guess the Room now?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link