Guess The City (Aerial)

I'm down with worldwide, though if there's going to be real toughies in the mix I think it's okay to have more than just one going at a time. Might try and gather a few myself...

yeah worldwide is good, go for it

worldwide

I will never get any non-obvious ones or places I haven't lived but will love following along with this.

Cool tho I'm in work all night so if someone wants to jump the queue then go ahead.

i will jump in this queue

http://i.imgur.com/TgC5BCg.jpg

i'm starting with the UK for this one based on the haphazard road layout and football stadium

barnsley?

let me know how wrong i am at least

my first guess was sheffield which doesn't seem to be correct

i don't know mid-size UK cities very well at all, which is what this appears to be to me

Barnsley isnt a bad guess

Stockport?

Not so good...missing the viaduct!

hah yeah, was looking at the position of the stadium relative to the train line...

I had a look on google maps and found it p quick but I will hold off if anyone wants to guess. stockport much less green, and has a giant blue glass pyramid ofc

i found it as well, not so quick though, went through like 30 other towns first

Just out of work - 3. Halifax?

The West Yorkshire one obv.

Reckon that's right, that football stadium in the south east is the shay

That's definitely it.

I'll post one when I figure out how to use bing maps to get an aerial pic on my phone.

3 is Halifax, well done!

Hats off to anyone who gets these, this is insanely hard. Reckon I could get London or New York if anyone fancies doing those.

Here's one until or something gets something loaded up:

http://i.imgur.com/0zkoH9r.jpg

Looks kind of Californian.

i'm sticking on that big open landscape in the middle. can't read it. cemetery? farms? big axial baroque garden?

I guessed cemetery.

Hint: It's located in the UTC +2.

Johannesburg?

Damn it, just abt to say Johannesburg. Think that's right.

has anyone guessed #1 yet?

the op is Indianapolis

This one is easy to GIS for source, but amazing:

http://img.scoop.it/O_2tEC6XOoSSy9Kv0f6Zc4XXXL4j3HpexhjNOf_P3YmryPKwJ94QGRtDb3Sbc6KY

Cairo?

Saer nailed it.

Is that a cemetery in the Jo-burg?

Look more closely in another tab. Each of those is a city block.

New Delhi?

I did look full size, Cairo seemed like a really big city in a dry climate that may have relativly low-tech development.

x-post, OK maybe India too.

The "carpet" quality makes me think Tokyo, the extremely gridding not so much. It's not Curitiba. Hrm. New Delhi outside of the center is actually pretty close in 'look' but I'm stumped. Man, that scale is wild. Feeling really dumb that I don't know what this is.

What's weird is how even it is - maybe because we're zoomed out so far but it's hard to read major/minor streets, or even a long/short kind of rhythm like Manhattan or Mexico City have in their grids. It's weird to see something that screams "20th century planning" but not "and also they were obsessed with traffic circulation" which would lead you to arterials or at least some primary collector roads or something.

It's New Delhi. I first saw the image in a coffee-table book about overpopulation.

I tried searching that area of New Delhi on google maps, but couldn't find the right airport.

http://i.imgur.com/ObVh1HV.jpg

worth viewing bigger

I was in the Shay Stadium a couple of weeks ago and I still had no idea that one up thread was Halifax. These are difficult.

That one looks a lot like Naples but isn't. I think I've covered most of the world's coastlines that look like that. Driving me a little nuts.

i know where is it

I just followed the little ferry lines all over the mediterranean and couldn't find a port that looked like that.
the railroads and lack of baseball diamonds around the sports complex in the southeast make me think it's not North America, the outdoor pools make me think it has to be somewhere warm.

palermo?

After four years, I guess I can reveal the answer. If you want.

Nah this must end with one of us getting it

looks like coastal US/canada to me? i think i wasted a bunch of time looking for it 4 years ago on those grounds

would prefer to leave it hanging with no hints though than be told the answer

looks like coastal US/canada to me? i think i wasted a bunch of time looking for it 4 years ago on those grounds

Haha yea, I keep thinking Annapolis, Portsmouth NH, or around the Chesapeake area but no dice so far!

There's kind of a naval academy feel about it!

It is Portsmouth!

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in top right!

Fuck I went birdwatching there once and thought one of the inlets looked familiar

hah of course it'd be somewhere i've been multiple times

Ohhhhh you mean the American one, here I was trying to pick out HMS Victory lol

wtg cherry blossom!!!!

much easier one

http://www.aerialarchives.com/stock/img/AHLV3084.jpg

I went on a boat tour of Portsmouth Harbour years ago. The only other people on the boat were my parents and about 20 German tourists who for some reason were all wearing light blue t-shirts with 'SHIT HAPPENS' printed on them. It was surreal.

I saw it was Portsmouth but I cheated.

Last one is Newport Beach, CA!

^^^^

much easier one

Interesting, I found that much harder than Portsmouth! I wasn't even really thinking of California (and I don't know Newport Beach at all)

Interesting looking one!

https://i.postimg.cc/gkS2yv40/Screenshot-2020-03-05-at-17-05-58.png

No takers?

done a bit of coastline-scrolling but nothing's coming together yet.

klaipeda, lithuania. the euro buildings and barrier islands had me scanning through the coasts of the north and baltic seas for a while.

Yes! I thought this would have been an easier one than it proved to be, with such a distinctive coastline!

nice work!

https://i.postimg.cc/FmfCVy4C/Screenshot-2020-03-13-at-09-05-35.png

quarantine edition

https://i.postimg.cc/FmfCVy4C/Screenshot-2020-03-13-at-09-05-35.png

Nantes!

(Didn't know it by sight - it just felt extremely French and I did a short cruise down the Loire. Second city I checked!)

Result!

I recognised it straight away as somewhere I had visited but got misled by the caption so was looking at cities on the Arno!