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

I spent way too much time looking in Homestead & Braddock!

You get it from looking for orthodox churches?

xp omg YES I see it now, there's ANOTHER roundabout

My Googlemaps tour of NZ showed me a lot of aluminum siding, the entire country looks like suburban Quebec

XP - yes, though your hint about Biden helped, so I looked for orthodox churches around Scranton.

that’s impressive doo dah

don't know where that street with blue/tan/white houses is but I like the image

the street is amazing and I'm surprised it's not super easy to find!

Trujillo for #2? I can't find the streets but the lighting and some of the architecture look right?

Trujillo is definitely close, but not it

No takers for #3 with the tower blocks?

XP - yes, though your hint about Biden helped,

Impressive, as the comment about Biden was actually a red herring. I was just imagining him hiding in that window, it wasn't a location hint!

although maybe subconsciously it was!

Some of the towers are similar in design to ones I saw in Lisbon

Though they had flat roofs

Its not Lisbon! Here's another angle

https://i.postimg.cc/Qjfdnchb/Screenshot-2020-04-13-at-12-31-31.png

Guessing Chimbote or (Nuevo Chimbote) for #2. I've googled pretty much every city in Peru and it seems the most likely

Its Chimbote!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-9.1307225,-78.5367944,3a,75y,320.09h,82.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVeofQI8KrjUHx4pIuu7CRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I can't quite remember the location of the first Chimbote pic, but it was around here somewhere

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-9.0618,-78.5812719,3a,75y,295.33h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s82RJUKxvpwRpRvd4nqZ2wA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

is the game to post just pics you've taken yourself?

Not at all Euler. The world is your oyster.

Get one in there Euler!

And have a go at NotLisbon Tower Blocks too

GOD I'm so happy I figured out it was Chimbote

I was confusing which pics were of which city (to be honest). I wouldn't have got Chimbote without other people's guesses of Lima/Trujillo... I was literally googling "fastest growing cities in Peru" just to track down where such commie-looking suburbs might've popped up

Is #3 (not Lisbon) in Turkey?

The minaret suggests "Islamic", it looks too verdant to be Northern Africa, too dry to be India/Bangladesh/Indonesia, too modern to be Middle Eastern, both "new economy" and also "not rich", I actually don't think it's Turkey but think it's a former USSR -stan country

Turkey seems a good bet, Izmir/Smyrna?

It isn't Izmir.

There's some decent coastline/mountain/terrain info in that last photo!

No takers for NotLisbon (or Izmir)?

https://i.postimg.cc/QtMrCCmW/Screenshot-2020-04-30-at-06-39-56.png

Here's a new one to go with it, ThursdaySkyline

I've forgotten where ThurdaySkyline is! Going to have to try guess my own city!

DoubleHeader-1

https://i.postimg.cc/dqKXx7N1/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-21-33-48.png

DoubleHeader-2

https://i.postimg.cc/1RKbGyrt/Screenshot-2020-05-19-at-21-23-31.png

first one is Dundee?

rusty tin roofs of the second one is making me think Russia but I'm out of my element

Chelyabinsk?

Dundee YES!
Chelyabinsk NO!

second one Norilsk?

Second one is Norilsk, too iconic to be anywhere else!

Shall I give the answer to NotLisbonOrIzmir? Or leave it to posterity?

I can't give the answer to ThursdaySkyline because I've forgotten where it is. I might try guess it myself later today

https://i.postimg.cc/8zvR70x2/gtc1407.jpg

guess the city 14/07

it's Batumi, right?

bravo, right off the bat!

this thread never fails

wow, never got even close to any of these, but the single Turkish-type minaret gave me something very concrete to work with: sea port city in a non-muslim country in the Eastern Mediterranean or Black Sea. actually checked and discarded Batumi at first (but of course you wouldn’t pick a photo that displayed the actual city centre) - but when I searched for the minaret-golden onion-shaped dome combination Batumi was the top result, and then that distinctive church tower sealed the deal.

oh, it’s a clock tower turned boutique hotel apparently.

"clock tower turned boutique hotel" I'm sold

very affordable prices!

https://jennyrightside.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/is2009-1016-08.jpg

I want to say Kandahar, other than the colouring is maybe too light. The low rise layout points there though

Kandahar indeed!

https://i.imgur.com/JEAfm6k.jpg

what a place eh?

I thought Kandahar straightaway, then had a quick look at first image that came up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kandahar#/media/File:Aerial_view_of_a_section_of_Kandahar_in_2013.jpg

but both of these look darker and not as sandy as yours so I wasn't 100 on it but thought it close to enough!

27th July trees

https://i.postimg.cc/69d5WXXw/aa.png

https://i.postimg.cc/t4T0k7m0/kb.jpg

31st July curved road

I will say: is it in Asia? just to get the ball rolling

31st is in Asia, and 27th isn't!

oh yeah, I meant the 31st, sorry. East Asia, no? (but that will probably all from me)