Looked briefly for views of 18th century Harvard but don't see a match for that set of buildings
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
what, weβre doing Guess the Room now?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky β’ Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
I think we're playing Guess the Fifth Word of the Fourty-Second Page of the Grey Book on the Table now
― Dinsdale, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
Yeah, ngl, you're taking the piss cherry blossom.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
fireplace reminds me of bern
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Des Moines?
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
There's a gavel on the table and the view outside the window REALLY looks like a college campus, that's all I got
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the gavel makes me think political building, and the painting looks like an 18th century state capitol, with the sparse landscape suggesting a younger state.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
the painting looks a lot like the iowa old state capitol and that has a streetview inside but i can't find that room.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
(in iowa city)
TIL that Iowa City was Iowa's capital before Des Moines.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
no slam dunk but is it Appomatox Court House, VA?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
not the same office, but details match. Old Capitol, Iowa City:
https://i.postimg.cc/mDxxhzRc/download.png
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Yep https://www.google.com/maps/@41.661148,-91.5360813,3a,75y,92.74h,75.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipNzuFqrGewv9a_oFgkt7fSl2-YoZjInp5qQkYvP!2e10!3e11!7i5376!8i2688?hl=en&authuser=0
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
nice
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 19 April 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
and btw the Old Capitol is in the middle of the University of Iowa campus so I correctly read the through-the-window view
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
Great team effort. Narrowing down to Iowa so quickly was impressive
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
Another one
https://i.postimg.cc/sg9Tp0Mw/Screenshot-20210420-102533-Maps.jpg
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 09:27 (three years ago) link
yeesh. it's gotta be the us. are acres of car wreckage a thing anywhere else?
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
maybe in Russia
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
yeah it feels more like eastern europe or russia, the cars look too small for it to be in the us
― Jibe, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
The hipped roofs and the one-line power pole say eastern europe to me too.
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
is it a junkyard full of Yugos?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
I know, I know it's serious
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
it's a junkyard full of no-gos haha
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
It feels a fairly high latitude
The cars seem to have a more matte type look rather than glossy. I'm not good at that but if so does that say they've been there a long time? not sure how that helps tho
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
aircraft hangars in the distance?
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
single line power, reasonably well maintained but narrow sidewalk, small cars = not the US.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
I think most of the junkyards like that in US have been emptied out as old junked cars have been shipped to China for the steel. You used to see them a lot more driving cross country in the '80s.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
you have never driven through the western us i take it. anyway ok it's not the us sheesh.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I'm sure they still exist. Just that I remember as a kid driving past seemingly cars stacked alongside the side of a highway for miles. I think the prices of scrap steel have changed the economics of that. To me it does look like something that could be in the US, though the cars don't look quite right. I'm wondering about the line of trees in the distance. It reminds me of how trees grow alongside the sides of irrigation canals.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
map is rightβ there are still plenty of spots like this in rural parts of the western US. tbh it looks a lot like far Northern California, but it isn't, as has been established.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
i think it might be asia somewhere. maybe even japan (the sidewalk is weirdly good to me).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
looks like Japanese cars too
Fukushima?
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
I wondered about Hokkaido initially but the light didn't seem right, but then thats pretty flimsy either way
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 06:46 (three years ago) link
ha i def spent a while looking up 80s japanese minivans to see if anything matched that grey van on the right side of the lot, with little to no success
― Jibe, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 07:28 (three years ago) link
that minivan is part of the reason i think japan. not 100% but it looks like one of these. seems like those sold pretty well in australia too.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
The fences are too low for the U.S., tweakers would be all over that place.
The van at the right looks like a Mitsubishi Delica which would be fairly rare in the U.S.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Somewhere in Australia?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Pic 2
https://i.postimg.cc/9Q6m40ZZ/Screenshot-20210421-231840-Maps.jpg
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
thinking new zealand now
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
NZ or Tasmania
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
obviously a racecourse. for horses, probably.
a picture search for racecourses near junkyards brings up some odd results.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
On the first picture, how usual is it to have a blue line in the road? I feel like I don't see that.
― Alba, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
Its a red herring, we've had this before. Or Something's phone adds this blue line to every image!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
(every image from Streetview, that is)
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:55 (three years ago) link
Oh! Weird.
― Alba, Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
It's literally in their screen name ha ha. Sorry, late to this game.
― Alba, Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
Nothing to suggest that the racecourse and junkyard are near each other though
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 22 April 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
Not the racecourse in Hobart or Launceston as far as I can tell, but they both have the same type of railings, so this could be Aus/NZ.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 22 April 2021 06:03 (three years ago) link