Guess The City (Aerial)

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.

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

Ground zero. Hiroshima.

Yup, well done.

Another easy one:

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

Singapore

Marina Bay Sands is hard to miss.

http://i.imgur.com/6sN06NV.jpg

view image it's big

very middle european? prague/ljubliana etc are similar

not Prague I don't think, but maybe Brno?

totally Brno! Nice.

👍

a lovely city, I would recommend a visit to the Brno Dragon should anyone pay a vist

http://www.brno.me/photos/sights/city-portal-dragon.jpg

working on my selection...

relatively easy I should think

http://i.imgur.com/HhrAC8l.png

We got stuck in traffic and so had to cut out our visit to Brno proper - but Mies's Villa Tugendhat is a must-see for the architectural sort.

xpost Lyon!

hah yes much too easy!

jersey manhattan brooklyn i seeit!

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http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/guessaerial3_zpsljya2wte.jpg