Guess The City (Aerial)

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

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!

22.

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

Bangalore!

BTW, the hint I needed was the blue roofs on the newer buildings. That mosque looking building in the NW led me on a long detour.

http://i.imgur.com/WDPOVL8.jpg

Hint: No longer a problem.

Konigsberg then.

Formerly. Remarkable how decimated it was by the last days of WWII and 45 years of Soviet rule.

Oops, Kaliningrad for the official point, my bad.

Can't supply my own right now...

Love this thread, is it okay to jump in? this could be super easy mind...

http://i68.tinypic.com/4jszyu.png

That has to be be the Netherlands - not sure where though. Want to say Utrecht but it doesn't quite fit.

Leiden

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2w2hbty.jpg

Ordos Ghost City!!

http://i.imgur.com/mRND0gu.png

Chiang Mai!

You guys are good.

I was certain Bangalore was in Mexico somewhere.

XXXXXP Leiden it is!

http://oi63.tinypic.com/15d5kid.jpg

Kalgoorlie, WA!

(Western Australia, not Washington State.)

yup!

http://i.imgur.com/WTYXs2D.jpg

Helluva place for a train station.

I love holes and I love Australia. What can I say.

Here's an aeiral:

http://i.imgur.com/sf2M3eD.jpg

But I thought the Bird's Eye looked cooler:

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