I thought I was being clever with Klagenfurt but it's shit town uk that's stumped us all
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
I wonder if this is an old pic and the petrol garage switched companies - feel like I've google every southern city + Shell by a motorway/dual carriageway and no match
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
Same here
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
I've tried "virgin media" as well
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
I note that Guildford and Milton Keynes are missing from the map of cities above. Haven’t made either fit but maybe others are missing? Or maybe I’m not good at making things fit.
― Tim, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
They're not cities
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
Churchill Way Whttps://maps.app.goo.gl/T2c2bn8jmXMe8Tdn7
Got it, Salisbury
― or something, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
ha I did see that one but dismissed it foolishly
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
I couldn't see any Russian agents at the Shell cashpoint
― calzino, Monday, 29 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
I somehow expected Salisbury to look better than that. But I suppose nice photos aren't what the thread is about. I've almost certainly been in Salisbury at some point.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 29 March 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
Difficult one, I felt like something would emerge from the image but nothing did and I didn't have a clue. Then cities were being whittled down through collective trial and error at a rapid pace and it still seemed to elude everyone even as the number of available cities dwindled!
kudos on finding the exact spot, still. Even with the process of elimination I was still nowhere near
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
Salisbury it is, well done. jim in vancouver may have got it before but he gave Hardy's name for reasons beat known to himself.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
best known, d'oh
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
https://postimg.cc/SnNgLv9t
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/2SngYpSm/20210329-200704.jpg
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:36 (three years ago) link
Is this photo taken at the start of a car race?
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:39 (three years ago) link
Not as far as I'm aware
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link
It's a serendipitous streetview guess the city moment
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
Getting a South America vibe, but not much more than that yet
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
it looks like the inner suburb of copenhagen where i lived when i studied abroad. somewhere in amager.
― treeship., Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link
there aren't leaves on the trees, so i think it's a temperate or cold climate. those terracotta roofs and the small cars seem northern european. i don't see a bike lane though so it's likely not in denmark.
― treeship., Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:44 (three years ago) link
Looks Eastern European to me
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:45 (three years ago) link
Feels a little too dusty mountainous for Denmark
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
Pristina?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:50 (three years ago) link
Googling blue line road markings threw up possibly the worst pun ever: https://www.theobserver.com/2017/01/blue-lines-matter/
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
Ooft
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link
Not Copenhagen or Pristina btw
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:08 (three years ago) link
big fat ugly raised steel wired armoured cables on wooden poles rather than sunk (and with a scruffy loop left hanging there) suggests nobody loves this place!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
Matazlan?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Or Mazatlan, even.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
Definitely feeling Mexico for this (but also feeling Brazil hmm)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
Not Mazatlan
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
Block of flats is confusing me. Looks sort of eastern European but on the other hand green shutters feels Latin
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
What do we think the smelting looking building with the chimneys is on the left? Behind the little building that might be a street church
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
perhaps they don't bury cables or build too high because it is in a seismic zone that frequently has earthquakes? god knows somewhere in Chile?
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
There seem to be mountains in the background too, though I have no purchase in this game right now, just mentioning it.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
the unburied cables basically rules out western europe.
there might be an earthquake connection but generally speaking buried cables are a wealth thing even in earthquake zones. you can see the rich neighborhoods of LA from space becuase if you can see tree cover then you're looking at a neighborhood that could afford to bury. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-09-re-pole9-story.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Japan?
― StanM, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Japan isn't a city
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
(But no, not Japan. I'll give you that one)
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
San Felipe ?
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
the Chile one I mean
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Nope. Is it too early for another pic?
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
I've exhausted my options. There's 3 or 4 I like for it but not enough to put forward
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/kG6m0CM9/20210330-213902.jpg
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
god this has to be chile
talca?
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Or curicó?
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
Neither
― or something, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
my last guess is Chillán.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link