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looks somewhere equatorial and colonial but i don't see any mosques. maybe somewhere like macau but the towers aren't big enough.

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link

It’s so flat!

Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 20:47 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

Dnipro, Ukraine?

Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:29 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

Looks more like Kiev tbh, the island in the middle matches up with maps in a certain way.


I was looking at Kiev too but it it has more topography.

Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:46 (three 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 (three years ago) link

Can't find the aerial shot but I really want to go to northern China now. It's Harbin

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/prZFrAVEnC6cdszJ9

ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 17 September 2021 09:20 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

ah, the one pic i didn't look at!

ledge, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:40 (three years ago) link

scroll left for a headless person with another tiny person in their rucksack.

ledge, Friday, 17 September 2021 09:41 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

xp thanks! but no, I have nothing there on my map

StanM, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/xTX7JdZN/126.jpg

Monday Morning Blues

cherry blossom, Monday, 20 September 2021 11:03 (three 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 (three years ago) link

Nottingham

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 20 September 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link

looks like some shithole in bucks or berks

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Monday, 20 September 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link

Lol that has a different meaning where I am, though I don't doubt yr right.

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link

(Bucks and Berks are two counties that form part of the ring around Philadelphia county, and both are full of both very nice area and absolute shitholes)

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 20 September 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link

That feels like literally everywhere I've ever been in England.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 20 September 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link

church and steep high St are the clues here I think

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link

i'm pretty sure it's south of nottingham

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link

little bit twee and tudor for the midlands and north

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link

Wouldn't rule out Ireland here

nashwan, Monday, 20 September 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link

Building on the left, behind the traffic light sign, does not look English at all

edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link

I'm still trying to figure out what that grassy area in the center is. At first it looked like some kind of traffic circle, but then I started to think that the apparent curvature of the wall was actually fish-eye lens distortion and the wall is actually fairly straight. Still not sure though. And I can't figure out what is the in the low-lying area behind those bushes. Perhaps a river or train tracks?

o. nate, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link

Maybe non-English looking building on left in an otherwise English looking scene suggests more continental influence ?some place in Kent maybe

that's not my post, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link

o.nate, yeah was thinking that too could even be another road down there

Sorry, but that is how I feel (Ste), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link

My guess is pedestrian underpass.

ledge, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 07:50 (three years ago) link

Yeah, I'd say it's a pedestrian underpass that goes through the roundabout.

Like caek, I don't think it's northern.

brain (krakow), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 09:03 (three years ago) link

Another vote for pedestrian underpass, I'm sure of it. And that's a roundabout, fish-eye or no fish-eye. The building on the left could easily be a hotel, don't think it looks that un-English if so

Is this defo a city? Getting distinct town vibes

ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 09:29 (three years ago) link

I don't see a Salvation Army band playing nor children drinking lemonade, so yeah, northern town is out.

I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link

looks a bit like some places near me
(warwickshire)

nxd, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link

Bingo! It's St Botolph's roundabout in Colchester

B1025
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hjhdo4WZdkiPHyrv6

ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link


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