Guess the City

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?

This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?

I was thinking upstate NY.

Damn I thought it was Legoland...

If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.

Ithaca?

Casper?

it's in the Western US

Vegas

it's about the size of Pittsfield, MA

or Casper, WY (which it isn't)

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

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Haha, you just described Canada without knowing it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3411104,-2.8487827,3a,75y,137.04h,90.51t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suAkXfIrWTfqaxAESE9uAcw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DuAkXfIrWTfqaxAESE9uAcw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D137.04261883030372%26pitch%3D-0.5101447624751927%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

27 Fenton Close, Liverpool

Well done! You got it last night actually (Speke) but I didn't want to say anything when you were so close.

did you find the first one?

the first one is the house where my mother grew up, the second one from the right.

note the broken glass cemented into the top of the wall, something I always remember from childhood visits there, not a good place to do parkour

and here's the first one

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3414274,-2.8502535,3a,75y,181.07h,92.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNuBPvrymqvo3VqAxidfwXQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DNuBPvrymqvo3VqAxidfwXQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D181.06591591576725%26pitch%3D-2.1355887135825498%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

Link is wrong, here's the second one

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3427428,-2.8480527,3a,75y,233.64h,81.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sc4WsnIb8t1McslwYfkjVdQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dc4WsnIb8t1McslwYfkjVdQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D233.6353384790605%26pitch%3D8.479105284002344%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu

The bins were what made me stick with Liverpool, and then vibes, there were too many streets which were really similar but not quite. With the second photo, I was on Fenton Grove yesterday but not Fenton Close. Yes it sort of could be anywhere but it was like a twin

impressive! well done team :-)

Wasn't planning to do another one, but just came across this and thought it would be interesting.

https://i.imgur.com/BTTY22q.png

Old Trafford

Won’t be able to identify by the bins this time.

Quite a mix of people. There's a woman there with a backpack, tracksuit bottoms and bare shoulders, and another wearing tights and short shorts - so I'm thinking we're not in a muslim country.

Picking through piles of rubbish makes one think of Mumbai or something, but somehow the people don't give me an Indian vibe. Apart from the guy in the forefront, all the men seem to be wearing jeans...

I think this is Kathmandu

Going by triangular flags, climate and trash. But I can’t find it in streetview so maybe not. feels Himalayan though.

I was getting more of a feel of South America. The bricks above the blue yellow building above left, and occasional fragments of words

The green/white street sign is pretty distinctive!

Bogota has street signs that are on two lines like that

I get the vibe that the people are more Asian than South American, but I don't know what I'm going on there.

London, post Brexit? (sorry, jokes)

Looks a little like where I'll be next week (DRC, reinforced by the blue-yellow, too many bricks though)

very rough guess but there seems to be a sign in Kurdish ("Mezhe").

I thought I had it in the Maria Paz district, but second guessing now. The lighting is darker in the image

Its definitely Spanish speaking with the street name being Calle Csomething, and signs in that style appear to be common across Colombia though I noticed them more in Bogota. And the buildings on the left and words match

But on the other hand, there aren't many streets with trash like that or with that many people. Bogota's streetview surprisingly sparsely peopled. Maria Paz had people and trash. The building on the right is a problem. And the lighting isn't right, though I noticed the imagery is copyright 2019 and Bogota's coverage is more recent than that

I did wonder about Buenaventura on the coast, that seems to have trash and maybe port cities are a better bet

Having a punt that its Caracas.

I've just realised that this is not the most recently available street view, which is not really fair as the current view is very different

This is roughly the same view in 2024

https://imgur.com/a/8FtdgxV

Hm, why didn't that work?

https://i.imgur.com/YzYLNbQ.png

Reminds me of some streets I saw in Sal in Cape Verde.

OK, that's pretty dramatically different! I'm struck by the cars, which look like they're from the 1990s or something

Ok not Himalayan. Agree with South America or maybe Haiti?

Cali, Colombia? The painting of the green jeep is labeled "El Caleno."

Or wait, maybe it is Bogota. The building in the first photo looks like La Casa de Pique in the Bronx slum, which was demolished a few years ago:
https://www.colombia.com/actualidad/nacionales/sdi/141328/inicio-la-demolicion-del-bronx

found it: 1563 Cl. 9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nzk7KhPSgq2vhzZS9?g_st=ac

Ah good! I was at the wrong end of town, about 7 miles further west, though would never have found it even if landed on same street though with the changes. Was going to look for churches this afternoon

Weird area, I did kept second guessing if it was Bogota or not, but the street sign design was too big a factor to look elsewhere

from 2014

https://www.google.com/maps/@4.600975,-74.0837072,3a,75y,18.44h,77.59t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg!2e0!5s20141001T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D18.438167091363482%26pitch%3D12.410116189830106%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu

well done jaymc, and cherry blossom who did say Bogota last night too. If you turn the camera around 180 degrees, are those homeless people sleeping? I really hope so, because this is what I read about the Bronx:

https://colombiareports.com/keep-colombias-homicide-rate-low-dismember-dispose-victims-remains/