Guess the City

(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.

Yakima, WA!
I give up.

closer

rapid city?

Everett

rapid city is way bigger than Pittsfield
xp

corvallis then

so is Everett, apparently

cherry blossom wins

#4.http://i34.tinypic.com/xq9set.jpg

i thought Liverpool because of the purple bins. But it's too generic a picture

I may post another

Bins are what took me there, its a match on that. Found some similar streets in the south, around Speke, similar mix of cream and red, also with the higher slope on roof and road/pavement state. But...its generic and I started to see what I wanted to see

View 2

https://i.imgur.com/hTaIg5B.png

A casual trawl through Penzance has a similar vibe but the bins are wrong.

was that wall repaired/rebuilt with different bricks? is that a clue?

The bigger clue is probably now the silver/grey van with blue diagonal

I've no idea, but am always amazed at just how UK-ish just about any random pic of a UK street is. There's nowhere else on the planet those pics (particularly the first one) could be! Maybe Picardy or Flanders at an absolute stretch...

Could it be Ireland? (asking as a Yank)

Unless someone can identify the city via its domestic bin configuration (blue bin + grey/darker blue (?) bin is unusual), there appears to be nothing else in either picture that would narrow it down much.

No, the silver van is possibly a clue but that styling is pretty generic.

Big blue bins have been the only thing so far that has eliminated any cities.

Are blue bins that unusual? We have a dark grey bin for household waste, green bin for garden waste and a blue bin for recycling plastic, paper etc

We've only got grey for household and green for recycling. Garden waste your own responsibility to take to the tip or organise specific collection.

My parents have got 5 or 6 bins I think, and as I said above I found out the other week some Welsh councils don't have bins at all now but about 6 or 7 different bags and boxes.

don't a strangely high number of these houses have new roof tiles? this with the repaired wall... was this a big disaster location maybe?

Nah more likely the council went through a roof replacement programme and the unchanged one in the middle had gone under right to buy so wasn't included.

Walls are replaced all the time - could have been due to other works.

These look like post war council housing stock of the 50s/early 60s.

The ones behind the silver van are much newer

found 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.