I kind of like having the guess be supported by some kind of visual evidence. Makes it more challenging that way and also makes sure the thread doesn't devolve into people just throwing out names of a bunch of random cities (not that this has happened).
― o. nate, Friday, 10 September 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/cJJhqkrd/20210906-131043.jpg
Lanyard Man
― cherry blossom, Monday, 13 September 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
gdynia?
― kinder, Monday, 13 September 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
ok apparently that is 100% not Gdynia
― kinder, Monday, 13 September 2021 08:01 (two years ago) link
R.....ers P....t
― StanM, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
doesn't ring a bell & that RP logo isn't easily found on google either (or I'm doing it wrong)
― StanM, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
can't find it either on google or yandex.
― ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
sign probably saying 'SALE' in the window suggests an english speaking country.
― ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
https://theme.zdassets.com/theme_assets/2318861/9d666b2987e9f09a521c620f59c8ffd68c6ee5c4.png
lots of them in germany, or there were, looks like the company is no longer in business.
― ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
Schadowstraße 68, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany
― Tim, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Schadowstraße+68,+40212+Düsseldorf,+Germany/@51.2273308,6.7857975,3a,75y,296.34h,86.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3tuRtOTIrq9HOQySOLZDyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47b8ca24682ae431:0x4680db253e558437!8m2!3d51.2274595!4d6.7855575
I think it might be a Uniqlo now.
― Tim, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
damn, just found it myself!
― ledge, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
The anglicism 'Sale' replaced the German words 'Sommerschlussverkauf' and 'Winterschlussverkauf' a while ago, much to the relief of German sign-writers.
I recognised the store logo, but was beaten to the punch on Düsseldorf.
The premises in Schadowstraße is now an opticians, I think: https://ergra-low-vision.de/
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 13 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
nice find!
― StanM, Monday, 13 September 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
The anglicism 'Sale' replaced the German words 'Sommerschlussverkauf' and 'Winterschlussverkauf' a while ago
I thought it was Sonderangebot!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 13 September 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
Good find, but I was also looking for the identity of the man
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Vv86ysqM/Screenshot-2021-09-13-at-21-22-37.png
Wednesday
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
No idea, but I'd move there in a heartbeat
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
Thinking China
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
looks somewhere equatorial and colonial but i don't see any mosques. maybe somewhere like macau but the towers aren't big enough.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
It’s so flat!
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Yeah, not Macau because there isn't a weird space needle thing, and this isn't taken from the weird space needle thing
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
I still think it's China. In most countries a river that size would allow you to narrow it down to coastal cities, but not China. Doesn't look muddy enough to be the Yellow River or the Yangtze at least
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
is the ultra modern looking thing on the left a stadium or a train station?+ these very colorful buildings in the front, a circus tent - amusement park maybe?
― StanM, Thursday, 16 September 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
Architecture in the foreground doesn't look Chinese to me. Unless maybe it is a college campus deliberately designed to look Western or something.
― o. nate, Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
The groupings of distant buildings remind me strikingly of South Korea
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Dnipro, Ukraine?
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
I was going to say, looks a bit like one of those previous photos that turned out to be in the Ukraine or Russia.
― o. nate, Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Looks more like Kiev tbh, the island in the middle matches up with maps in a certain way.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
something distinctive at the very far left (when I zoom in).. the white space odyssey bldg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
I could be totally wrong since I don't see any onion domes.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
Can't find the aerial shot but I really want to go to northern China now. It's Harbin
松江湿地旅游码头https://maps.app.goo.gl/prZFrAVEnC6cdszJ9
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 17 September 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link
great find - I had been looking at big cities on rivers near the sea in the South but had given up
― StanM, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:24 (two years ago) link
I was switching between the south and the north and the Russia comments above made me refocus on the north
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 17 September 2021 09:29 (two years ago) link
Well done. Was hoping to get some idea of what all those russian style buildings are, they're not identified in google maps itself but I found a user review: Located in the Sun Island Scenic Area, Russian-style Town is a Russian-themed tourist spot and sightseeing area. The town retains a few dozen Russian-style villas and private residences. You can walk into these buildings for a visit.
The space age building on the far left, however, is completely unmarked.
― ledge, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
The space age building is Harbin Grand Theatre
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rj6AXAu4UaGYAdFp7
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 17 September 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
ah, the one pic i didn't look at!
― ledge, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:40 (two years ago) link
scroll left for a headless person with another tiny person in their rucksack.
― ledge, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link
Wow I was sure that it wasn't China.I wouldn't be so keen on moving to Harbin, it gets real cold there in the winter.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 September 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link
Smashed it!
The aerial photo is super close to the icy river one you found, a bit to the NW next to Harbin Polarland
― cherry blossom, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:41 (two years ago) link
And yeah it does share strange similarities with the Dnipro aerial shot from the other time!
― cherry blossom, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
Interesting.. so the architecture was done deliberately to evoke a Russian appearance. Nice find.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link
can't find the exact location of your pic (weird, do different countries get different pics maybe?) - can only find one very close:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7858925,126.5886307,3a,75y,88.96h,68.92t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOG3ZPhwTTjMUWLunDaWE-G59pset0GdxCdpQXK!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOG3ZPhwTTjMUWLunDaWE-G59pset0GdxCdpQXK%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya20.78465-ro-0-fo100!7i15000!8i7500
― StanM, Friday, 17 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7828255,126.5890808,3a,75y,227.25h,80.25t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP2hKL7fAoXr8xSnBzDlJSGpTAkYMvOBSy1t8nj!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP2hKL7fAoXr8xSnBzDlJSGpTAkYMvOBSy1t8nj%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya320-ro-0-fo100!7i15000!8i7500
― cherry blossom, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Missed this one but, yep, Harbin was mostly built by Russian railway workers and, though it has obviously changed a lot, the historical buildings (and faux historical ones) often have a heavy Russian influence.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 17 September 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
xp thanks! but no, I have nothing there on my map
― StanM, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/xTX7JdZN/126.jpg
Monday Morning Blues
― cherry blossom, Monday, 20 September 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
I can do no more than state the obvious and say that it's the UK and probably England.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 20 September 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link