Guess the City

#1. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2938231460_393d9fd250.jpg

Some midwest shithole?

yeah i was gonna guess somewhere in michigan

or maybe it's toledo?

Kiev?

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?

hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it

is someone gonna tell the answer?

if in the US, Pittsburgh?

i don't think it's the US

no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

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

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

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.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

Ulaanbaatar

The S to the right of the fridge is the logo of the cafe.

(on the other hand it's also ripped off from the Sistema Espresso logo so this might be a dead end)

nope, it appears to be a Spanish (I think) brand of Italian coffee

https://www.esecafe.com

Found an importer and seller in Paraguay, so more chance of that being there than the beer making it out. Plus I think the window says Helado Gratis and Paraguay has a free ice cream day.

Amandau might be the ice cream chain based on orange

Paraguay has a free ice cream day

Amandau staff wear the exact same outfit (orange/brown) - however, there are many branches in Asunción alone

https://amandau.com.py/nuestros-locales

they had over 190 branches in the country in 2017 - this could potentially also be a copycat parlour, don’t see the Amandau logo anywhere - also would they even sell beer?

Lonely guy just thinking baout Paraguayan ice cream parlours

gotta say i think going straight to google lens or whatever is a bit of a hack... i was only comfortable doing it when we had been stuck on that same mud flat pic for like two weeks

https://i.ibb.co/QdGB2zJ/Screenshot-2022-11-15-at-10-51-54.png

A second look

yes, it is Asunción, Paraguay:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nzhk96DAqyE7g6kW9?g_st=ic

haven’t been able to pinpoint that specific ice cream parlour yet tho

there is an encampment for homeless people just a few steps away from that second view tho

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7E6zH6Ygik1m2LS89?g_st=ic

well done!

I should make less use of ‘tho’ tho

Asuncion it is

the first pic is immediately to the southeast (I always aim to get subsequent views pretty close to the first view)

https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.2822227,-57.6333351,3a,75y,245.12h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipODGnLfyXEdVWrUGcOUhYcMaFSIqmrJohv7s-F7!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipODGnLfyXEdVWrUGcOUhYcMaFSIqmrJohv7s-F7%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya345.0709-ro-0-fo100!7i5472!8i2736

It was an Amandau outlet, but one that is now closed down. That wasn't intentional, I only realised when I forgot where it was and had to play my own city in order to find it again to find a nearby image for the second view

I was thinking not Asunción because it had been mentioned ITT already. (other cities in Paraguay are pretty odd it seems)

Asunción was a work in progress! I was basically waiting for the next view to get confirmation (although, granted, it could have potentially also been a different Paraguayan city)

the first pic is immediately to the southeast (I always aim to get subsequent views pretty close to the first view

aware of the second clause, that is

It was an Amandau outlet, but one that is now closed down.

I was thinking not Asunción because it had been mentioned ITT already. (other cities in Paraguay are pretty odd it seems)

Partly I was away from my computer for most of last week, partly I'd forgotten where it actually was, and partly I wanted to give a chance for someone to find the view (even though I couldn't remember where it was myself)

It appears quite a few of the other cities in Paraguay are just extensions of Asuncion!

https://i.ibb.co/R6tz5LG/Screenshot-2022-11-18-at-07-58-57.png

Friday time Streetview time

Almost certainly Britain. Bottom half of the wall looks like Bath Stone or Cotswold Stone which doesn't make it far out of those areas.

Road marking are not typical for the uk though - or those sluice valve markers.

sv means stop valve ime but yes it does indicate an english speaking country

can't be that many castles with trampolines

oh, I thought that was netting for catching falling building chunks

I think it's safe to say we haven't got a clue? :-)

Help? :(

Another clue please cherry blossom!

https://i.ibb.co/Dtq85g4/top.jpg

Pembroke?

Here's a game for all you OSINT fans, in the photo below is a location you have to find I'll give you a hint it's in donbass and you have to come back with the exact location in the replies. This is a test to show how OSINT Geolocation works for people who might not understand. pic.twitter.com/urjIDlmUMT

— COSSACKGUNDI (@cossackgundi) December 7, 2022

Aiden Aslin has posted one here as well if anyone wants a go at that too

first instinct is New Zealand. maybe on an estuary? no time to search right now tho

pittosporums (i think) & a tī kōuka/cabbage tree would suggest so... getting a south island vibe. is corrugated iron roofing even a thing outside the south pacific?

driving on the left side of the road

So the road markings from the first picture are a clearway which is also a bike lane. Also applies to Australia.

As shown here:

http://www.drivingtests.co.nz/roadcode-questions/car/parking/a-broken-yellow-line-painted-close-to-th/

an australian c2 line has evenly spaced breaks 3m on 3m off. at least in nsw. looks like nz.

The vehicle registration ticket in the bottom corner of the windscreen looks like New Zealand

Dunedin?

Could be Lyttelton

So, Christchurch.

I wasn't sure if it was Kandallah or Newlands looking across to East Harbour, so Wellington.

Yeah I don't think it is Lyttelton/Banks Peninsula, it looks much too populated.

dunedin fits the geography, i couldn't find the castle though

Also the neighbourhood watch signs on the pole look very New Zealand