Way to go, I was about to start looking up Utah State
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, January 15, 2021 3:24 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol i have utah expertise and it definitely seemed like it was either further north or higher up to me (evergreens at street level). missoula is beautiful and a nice place to visit.
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
Yeah I thought Utah myself at first
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
i don't know exactly how to tell it isn't utah but it's some combination of: no sagebrush, no cedar trees, no juniper trees, looks like it gets a few more inches of rain per year, no lds churches, the wasatch is more abrupt-looking.
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
i was going to guess medford. definitely north of utah though. good pic.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
Methford is not that nice, my man
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
I caught a trout in that river once, right downtown
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
I caught a needle in that river once, right downtown
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
i ate a very nice slice of cherry pie in medford once. did not detect any meth.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Alright, think this one might be a quickie
https://i.imgur.com/UpDmtUK.jpeg
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
I mean
brasilia?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
no
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Ho Chi Minh City
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
would like to try one
january 15 no. 2
https://images.snapwi.re/4cc5/556cd98182a5e84845918aba.w800.jpg
― map, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver),
South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 16 January 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
@ map
Tampico, Mexico
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
(I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges until Puente Tampico showed its hideous face)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
― cherry blossom
Is it Vientiane?
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
it is! that's the biggest street in the Laotian capital, as viewed from the "vertical runway" (a giant stone arch thing made with concrete which the USA donated for the building of an airport)
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
I was there for a few days in 2005, perhaps the most laid back capital I've ever visited.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
this is from when I was there in 2008, yes very laid back, big contrast to horrible Vang Vieng
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
I had a lot of fun in Vang Vieng but I was only young.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
it was like Bad Boy Island in Pinocchio, thought I saw someone die within an hour of arriving.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridgesi thought of this except a) using wikipedia or something as I hadn't heard of structurae and ii) i wrote it off as insane as there are probably a million cable stayed bridges. so, kudos.
― ledge, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
I did look at about a thousand bridges until I found the one
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/rcHnyZPh/Screenshot-2021-01-16-at-16-23-11.png
Well in that case
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
I was looking for tallest, diamond shaped cable-stayed, anything to narrow it down but it's clearly not particularly tall or particularly anything so I found nothing xp
― or something, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Does anyone here play geoguessr?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
I did for a while last year, but mainly just watch GeoWizard videos nowadays instead!
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
I played geoguessr in class sometimes when it was free, you get hardly anything in the free version now
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
I think perhaps it deteriorated somewhat in the three years between our visits.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
cityguessr is a reasonable alternative to geoguessr but cities only
With those games there are clues which make sense in that context but wouldn't work on Guess The City (if a phone number appears someone would just google it)
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 17 January 2021 08:46 (three years ago) link
Second view
― cherry blossom, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
The differences between that one and the first view are... subtle :)
― Tim, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
This feels like the US Midwest to me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
That's what I thought too FWIW, I wondered whether it was Rockford, IL but it's not.
― Tim, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Oops, I'm not sure where the other image is maybe I only uploaded one. I'll find and post the other one tonight
― cherry blossom, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
The bluffs coming up off the river remind me of La Crosse but the Mississippi is way wider than this in this part of the country.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
Looks too hilly for the midwest, though that might be because I grew up in Illinois
― rob, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Driftless Zone baby
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
oh yeah it's by no means impossible -- it's just my personal "looks like the US midwest" = a flat cornfield with nary a bump for hundred of miles, so my thoughts went more to western PA or like Hudson Valley type places
― rob, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Western PA is also the US Midwest by many people's lights, but I think we already have a thread for that...
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
It's worth noting that there are TWO bridges in that photo, the suspension one in the foreground and a tied arch bridge behind it. Tied arch bridge suggests a railway. It looks like Ontario, and even vaguely familiar, but I can't place it at all.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
There's a symbol on the bike path. Also looks like it's a historical park with a some sort of sign in the foreground. Not that I have any intuitions about the city....
― that's not my post, Monday, 18 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
Really looks like an Ohio River town. I noticed the two bridges, but the couple of places that had two bridges weren't those types.
― tots & pears (doo dah), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
That's a city?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
I said the same thing to myself, Tom
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 18 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
I was thinking Ohio River too. Looks like some places near Cincinnati maybe.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Ok its not Chicago or Chengdu but there have been at least two places many multiples smaller than this one that got guessed!
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link