Guess the City

A fine addition to this weeks great run

Plaza Garibaldi, Callao, Peru

― StanM, Saturday, 4 December 2021 1:12 AM

well done!

https://i.ibb.co/jGkrBsB/757.png

Monday

what in the - that pickup truck is all kinds of wrong

its a sixth gen dual cab tray back hilux ute

that absolutely screams Queensland to me

sure

btw cherry you might be interested in https://github.com/digitaldickinson/Clean-StreetView

specifically it looks like Indooroopilly looking toward Mt Coot-Tha, but if it is then you guys are fucking with me because my uncle and aunt lived in that exact region

ive never been north of urangan so you're on your own

no, that's further north.

(suburb of Brisbane I mean)

based on the satellite dish i think the photo is looking north.

specifically it looks like Indooroopilly looking toward Mt Coot-Tha,

the 3d data is good around there and maybe i'm missing it but i can't see anything like the large developments in the middle and to the right of the hill.

So many apartment buildings - must be a big/touristy part of a big city? Not many clues to go on except the truck - the plants feel like they're more tropical than the parts of Brisbane I looked at, maybe?

the steering wheel is on the wrong side for Japan/Okinawa, right? and that 27 wouldn't be in western numbers either - nah, it almost has to be Australia (NZ? not hilly enough around Auckland?)

Japan drives on the left side too, but I think it's Australia/New Zealand too.

Looks like a Norfolk Island Pine behind the truck, which are native to that area, but widely planted elsewhere. Doesn't look fully tropical to me; that could almost be SoCal if you caught it at the right time of year.

i think it could easily be as far north as cairns

it's certainly intriguing. there are a lot of very nice hillsides on the eastern side of Australia, I'm learning, but apartment buildings on them? Not so much. Or I keep missing them. But where, then?

Second view needed, or a bit more time with this one?

My gut says it's NZ and somewhere in the Hutt Valley but I can't get any more from the pic.

... can we get a hint instead of a second pic? :-)

https://i.ibb.co/QHGDCtm/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-19-49-34.png

intriguing part 2

- nearer the equator than we initially thought, based on the very short shadows?
- ACIFIC
- those two houses straight ahead have very eastern influenced looking roofs
- guy on the right looks rather white/american?

... is it like some Western enclave/american military presence in an otherwise Asian country, maybe?

or Hawaii, even?

i clicked a street in Honolulu that looked very similar indeed. but I think the right-hand steering wheels suggest not?

(similar to first pic, I mean)

Father Christmas in summer suggests southern hemisphere

man I nearly thought I got it, north of Hobart, Tasmania, but the 4+ apartment buildings aren't there either

4+ storey

that kind of foliage would die within six months in Tassie

I was convinced it's Cairns but i couldn't find it, so now I'm not

I'm pretty sure it's Samoa

I have zero familiarity with the area, but from some streetview trawling I do think it looks a lot like Northern Queensland.

I've pretty much eliminated Noosa/Noosaville and also Townsville. Wondering about Mackay. The hill/mountain in back of the first shot looks typical of the Glasshouse Mountains which run down the eastern seaboard, a series of heavily eroded volcanic plugs which look like old teeth from a distance. We are an old continent so pretty much all of the topography is worn to bits.

... is it like some Western enclave/american military presence in an otherwise Asian country, maybe?

that's what it looks like to me tbh, but on a pacific island

my general-area guesses have literally all been wrong though, so maybe use it as a "not-there" guide lol

table might be onto something

isn't the steering wheel on the wrong side for Samoa?

Yeppoon, Queensland: https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.1272813,150.7438388,3a,75y,178.04h,78.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA9ej1_Elxk9mW_wyAitiPQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DA9ej1_Elxk9mW_wyAitiPQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D11.725892%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

where my cousin lived for several years, I'm considering a restraining order against the nefarious forces of ILX

Nice one!

Wow!

StanM, Samoa uses RHD steering wheels, apparently— both types are legal, same as American Samoa.

I got it by googling "pacific restaurant queensland logo" and this was among the hits
https://res.cloudinary.com/tf-lab/image/upload/restaurant/28406387-48f9-44eb-ad62-d011a5609721/0dbd294e-203b-47c9-bc33-c8fb9029c88e.jpg

(in the distance in the second pic)

Nice, there was a Pacific hotel in Cairns too, but the sign didnt look anything like that one.

guess the obscure town

https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.1315767,150.7461552,3a,75y,35.34h,81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPZfPrJHkYOs1ogbwnkXb7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

For anyone curious about the original view, it was over here a few streets away on the other side of the city

it's not a city!

those multi storey apartment buildings have thrown me off - I've only looked at big cities because of those

https://i.ibb.co/qWdYJwQ/Screenshot-2021-12-13-at-12-06-32.png

Playground

let's ask matttkkkk first - Matt? :-)