Guess The City (Aerial)

That interchange looks a lot like it could be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Changing_sides_at_borders

The river, the road, and the red roofs all make me think of Italy?

very straight canals and flat land makes me think belgium but I haven't found it

it's Aveiro in Portugal. (found by googling "circlar pedestrian bridge"!)

Indeed! The salt marsh landscape does give it a Low Country look from above, though.

http://i.imgur.com/QEEVSvh.jpg

idk this isn't my game but i would've thought you'd want a bar on this of minimum size or distinction that that little town in portugal doesn't meet

England?

not England

It has to be Europe. France?

I'm playing Guess The Country btw.

not France

I've just been googling English cathedrals with little success, so glad to see that that was a total waste of time.

(found by googling "circlar pedestrian bridge"!)

Ha, I was googling "roundabout bridge".

sorry, I guess I thought Aveiro was a bigger deal! it's a significant university town and moderate tourist attraction, i dunno man.

Big enough to have a pedestrian roundabout bridge, I ain't knockin' ya, C.

Current one is such a wonky patchwork of elements. Having a hard time picturing any of these spaces relating to any of the others. That's not so unusual but it sort of is in towns with what look like old-timey cathedrals and squares, and that huge, oddly-shaped green that nothing else seems to really take seriously.

I'm most intrigued by the nonagonal UFO landing pad in the northwest

Lot of cities in the UK, I'll give you all that.

That looks like (half) a rugby pitch three quarters to the right at the top. Is it somewhere in the British Isles that isn't England?

yes indeed it is british isles

Armagh!

It is, I just found it as well!

I have nothing so go ahead and post one if you have

well done! is there any chance we could restrict this to actual cities? finding provincial towns is fiendishly difficult. armagh has less than 15k ppl, there are bigger villages !

Armagh is an actual city.

I'd finished doing cities in Wales and was just moving round the ones in NI (I knew it wasn't in Scotland)

I just went by the list of Irish cathedrals on wikipedia

xps the trick is finding somewhere difficult but not TOO difficult and I guess being solved in 24 hours with a couple of nudges feels about right?

man not only does it have city status but there are three smaller cities in the uk. carry on then

imo sticking to 100,000+ population is best unless it has some unique identifying characteristic

RIP St Davids

Armagh!

I thought this was an expression of desperation at first.

"I can't find this stupid city. Armagh!"

alisa, you got anything?

Here's an unofficial one until we get a new city up. Trick to this one is that it's been flipped sideways.

http://i.imgur.com/bAyWlia.jpg

Very strong Latin American vibe....

Yup. Buenos Aires.

Sorry, don't have anything for now. Will try and find something and put it up later.

Meanwhile here's one that might be too small for a city but there's something identifiable

http://i.imgur.com/Yzzu7kX.jpg

Saint martin de Re. Cool looking place. I'll try to work out how to post a map from my phone. This may take a while...

I'd be happy for someone else to post the next one, I won't be back at a PC until Friday.

Really cool aerial, that last one.

http://i.imgur.com/GTDNQxH.jpg

Barcelona in a heartbeat.

I had a hunch it would be too easy

For better or worse. The Cerda plan which gives it that very distinctive grid of chamfered-edge blocks also makes the entire 19th century expansion of the city just brutally monotonous when you're anywhere between the big diagonals. The chamfered corners also make it a real pain to get around on foot: every street you're crossing is basically twice as wide as it needs to be, so you burn a lot of potential walking time waiting for lights. A shame the chamfer couldn't have been saved for 'special' intersections, or the grid more frequently offset with some other rhythm or open spaces (e.g. Savannah).

IIRC, Sagrada Familia was meant to be within an even bigger park - or rather, a total of six green blocks, making a Latin Cross. Obviously that was way too much real estate, but it's alarming to consider that it might not actually feel all that different, except of course for being able to get a real frontal approach on the thing.

I looked at doing a v similar shot of Barcelona earlier but figured too obvious. Still looks excellent from the air though.

they look like chromosomes.

18.

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/guessaerial2_zpscxwof8fh.png