hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)
is someone gonna tell the answer?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)
if in the US, Pittsburgh?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)
i don't think it's the US
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)
no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)
hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!
http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)
helpful clue
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
ya none of that anywhere else in the world
looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.
oh lol jho :D
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)
minsk
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)
actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)
Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)
ah got it,
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)
(by doing the ailsa thing)
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)
I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)
No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
birmingham, al?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
google is for cheaters
canada?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
Pretty sure you are
#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
ok montreal alisa wins next city
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
istanbul?
oh boooooring xp to lol canada
my error was to GIS rather than GS
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
ankara
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:49 (seventeen years ago)
I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)
Baghdad?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)
actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
Granny Dainger's is Montreal
― Jibe, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
lol
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)
haaaaaaaa
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)
Ed - Lahore, right?
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)
^win
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)
#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)
THATS MONTREAL???
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
many xps obv
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)
google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)
haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)
#3 url gives it away though
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:12 (seventeen years ago)
#3 is not very easy for Europeans
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)
I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)
This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
I was thinking upstate NY.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)
Damn I thought it was Legoland...
― snoball, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)
If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)
Ithaca?
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)
Casper?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
Grand Forks
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Saturday, 9 May 2026 00:48 (one month ago)
Not much to go on, and the time of day increases difficulty further. First thought is somewhere in Bulgaria, based on the houses on the right, but purely vibes
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 9 May 2026 05:43 (one month ago)
I dropped on a line on the outskirts of Burgas and they have similar-ish type poles with a yellow label on too, though yellow labels on railway poles is probably fairly standard?
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 9 May 2026 06:00 (one month ago)
Though time of day is now a help! We're facing west which rules out Burgas (if it is Bulgaria)
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 9 May 2026 06:11 (one month ago)
I think this is Ruse
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 9 May 2026 06:43 (one month ago)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9v5cPBHt6B9AjrHdA
we weren't facing west, it must be sunrise not sunset
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 9 May 2026 06:49 (one month ago)
ruse it is!
― shaking babies (map), Saturday, 9 May 2026 12:12 (one month ago)
https://i.postimg.cc/T33Dp75c/gtc1.png
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Saturday, 30 May 2026 21:24 (one month ago)
i think it's probably a former french colony based on that license plate. it looks tropical and too nice to be french west africa. mauritius? reunion?
― shaking babies (map), Saturday, 30 May 2026 21:39 (one month ago)
I was a confused at first by this. It does have a former French colony kind of vibe, but I was thrown off by the Romanian looking house with the orange sloped roof on the left hand side of the road on the right
That's quite a distinctive pole on the right
New Caledonia might be a start. I'm feeling overconfident after Ruse
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Sunday, 31 May 2026 04:29 (one month ago)
The problem with any of those colonies is the streetview footage looks like a 1970s postcard. It doesn't rule them out but if that original image is from streetview and it kind of looks like it is, it sort of rules out most of them hmm
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Sunday, 31 May 2026 04:40 (one month ago)
The other problem with French colonies is that in addition to streetview being shot on a potato, it looks like their poles have the holes filled in, unlike Romania
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Sunday, 31 May 2026 05:18 (one month ago)
view 2
https://i.postimg.cc/fbYx4nDh/gtc2.png
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Monday, 1 June 2026 23:17 (one month ago)
Graffiti says Chatelet with a circumflex and number plates look French. This is a French overseas territory, I'd say somewhere with a Caribbean vibe. Guadeloupe, Martinique or French Guiana.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 1 June 2026 23:34 (one month ago)
It's a flat, spread out urban area, and the urban areas of Guadeloupe and Martinique seem less flat and more compact. I would guess Cayenne, except Cayenne doesn't have google street view, which is where I'm supposing these images are taken from.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 02:52 (one month ago)
view 3
https://i.postimg.cc/fRvtwdBm/gtc3.png
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 15:55 (one month ago)
somehow i blanked that france had colonies in the americas which is dumb because new orleans. and haiti. anyway this island - i think it's a caribbean island just a feeling - looks cool.
― shaking babies (map), Tuesday, 2 June 2026 16:19 (one month ago)
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
― ramen faith taffy (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 June 2026 18:18 (one month ago)
I wasn't far off...
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 2 June 2026 22:11 (one month ago)
nicely done, breastcrawl!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIXrfIb_rwI
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 01:15 (one month ago)
Good one, flopped spectacularly at this one!
The pole with the holes really threw me, I couldn't see those anywhere in any of the French colonies. They seemingly all had poles that were indented but filled in. Discounted FG early due to the potato quality of the street view there and not seeing that type of pole in Cayenne
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 3 June 2026 02:08 (one month ago)
got their through the church in the background. did check out Guadeloupe and Martinique as well, but Guyana seemed much more likely and it is very light on urban development, so it wasn’t too hard to find the right spire.
― ramen faith taffy (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 June 2026 11:25 (one month ago)
(have not been able to identify the first two pics yet tho)
they are in the video. unless you mean something else by "identify"
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 13:13 (one month ago)
oh I meant on GoogleMaps
― ramen faith taffy (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 June 2026 13:15 (one month ago)
gotcha, i have no idea if they would be on there
― Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria de Episcopio, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 13:18 (one month ago)
This one is with a bonus "why was I looking at this place today?"
https://i.postimg.cc/25gN7xgN/image.png
― Here is the mentioned donkey, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 June 2026 13:51 (one week ago)
First thought here is Bahrain or maybe Qatar but no real conviction yet
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Saturday, 27 June 2026 14:39 (one week ago)
View 2, not that different to view 1 tbh
https://i.postimg.cc/QtYgWqb9/image.png
― Here is the mentioned donkey, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 28 June 2026 18:10 (one week ago)
Pretty hard to nail it down further than probably one of the Gulf states...
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 29 June 2026 00:26 (one week ago)
pensacola
― shaking babies (map), Monday, 29 June 2026 01:21 (one week ago)
i kid i kid
newer construction houses makes me think dubai, but the ones i'm seeing are a lot less "arabic" and more generic.
doha? i see newer developments with that ornate-looking style.
the other arabic cities i've looked at - riyadh, kuwait city, baghdad - are a lot denser and older.
― shaking babies (map), Monday, 29 June 2026 01:33 (one week ago)
Was thinking suburbs of Muscat, but a quick googleview throws up white boxes rather than that ornate style.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 29 June 2026 01:54 (one week ago)
Oman is a good shout though, I think it has to be either Oman or UAE somewhere
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Monday, 29 June 2026 02:04 (one week ago)
I think this could be Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Monday, 29 June 2026 04:39 (one week ago)
Its somewhere around Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohamed Rd
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Monday, 29 June 2026 05:08 (one week ago)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/R3sxfMUwBNdLtYbg6
Sheikh Humaid Bin Abdullah St, Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE
I found it yesterday morning but refreshed the screen and couldn't find it again before being busy rest of day
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 02:54 (one week ago)
Well done - looks pretty bleak!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 03:16 (one week ago)
Got it! This is the place with the highest ever wet bulb temperature reading.
― Here is the mentioned donkey, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 June 2026 18:09 (one week ago)
For the similarly interested:
Ras Al Khaimah is notable for it's climate that is particularly hot and wet even for the region. The highest ever recorded wet bulb temperature from a reputable weather station was at Ras Al Khaimah International airport with a WT of 36.3°C. Because high humidity makes cooling down via perspiration less effective, it makes hot temperatures feel significantly hotter. Wet bulb temperatures above 35°C can prove fatal even for healthy adults.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 July 2026 04:08 (six days ago)
Somehow I don't think I'll be putting Ras Al-Khaimah on my bucket list...
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 1 July 2026 04:37 (six days ago)
I only found one of the two images, even though they seem like they must be pretty close to each other. I think this is mainly because looking at Ras Al Khaimah was having a negative effect on my mental health.
(I'll probably come back for the other one regardless)
― tow law city (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 1 July 2026 05:34 (six days ago)