Guess The City (Aerial)

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I was thinking northern spain/basque country but I never would've thought of leon for whatever reason, but it makes sense because it's not quite green enough to be Asturias or Galicia (in my not particularly informed opinion)

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Friday, 20 November 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link

musac in the top left nice one tombot

conrad, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/6p9HyBH.png

El Tomboto, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link

tokyo?

ogmor, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link

Close, but not Tokyo.

El Tomboto, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link

Actually that one makes me realize some of Bing's satellite shots seem like they might be hella old

El Tomboto, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link

Less old, than taken on a day when the wind blew from China.

Humean froth (Sanpaku), Friday, 20 November 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link

Uhhh... Busan?

Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link

osaka has a dozen rivers that all run in the right direction to be that one but i couldn't find it

ciderpress, Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link

Less old, than taken on a day when the wind blew from China.

southeast corner not finished

El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 November 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link

as this hasn't been solved is a clue in order?

ogmor, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link

also I hope these are all aligned northwards otherwise this is just ridiculous

ogmor, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link

haha that's what i was worried about when i guessed palermo up top

nxd, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link

taipei?

ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link

yep it is, found it on googlemaps

ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link

#9
http://i.imgur.com/128vusk.jpg

ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link

An oval dirt racetrack in the middle of a city?

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link

Not helpful: http://speedwaysonline.com/tracks/category/oval-tracks/?nsd_surface=dirt

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link

Singapore I think?

The Male Gaz Coombes (Neil S), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link

Almost thought it was Cincinnati, if Cincinnati's population was about 100 times more dense.

pplains, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link

They're dense anyway for putting chocolate and cinnamon on their chili, but I meant the other kind of dense.

pplains, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link

not singapore (or cincinnati)

ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link

i do like cinnamon in chili though

ciderpress, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link

singamoncinnati

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 04:44 (eight years ago) link

the tight grid plus oval racetrack is making me think Autódromo but arrrgh which one?

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link

oval track could be for horses

Aimless, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

Wait, of course you put cinnamon in chill? Chocolate, though, don't know about that.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

I don't think it's for horses as there doesn't appear to be any stabling facilities xp.

Also thinking that's a big river, has to be south america or Asia but I'm struggling.

ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link

Buenos Aires has a tight grid and at least three big dirt ovals but is still not the answer. arrrrrrrgh

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link

ROSARIO ARGENTINA

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link

and Aimless was right it is a Hipódromo not an Autódromo

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link

#10:

http://i.imgur.com/bPKdlOI.png

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link

Gothenburg!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link

son of a bitch

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link

ROSARIO ARGENTINA

― El Tomboto

Oh shit I've been there! Still didn't recognise it.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 November 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link

Casino it's been an hour where is your entry

El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link

oh shit forgot that rule sorry! we're running out the door for friendsgiving but I SHALL RETURN

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 November 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link

Wow, that is not the Gothenburg I know. Quite funny when you see a picture of a city, and you realize you think you know it but you've only been in one corner of it. But that corner (south and south-west) I know quite well.

Frederik B, Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link

I think I can see my cousins apartment!

Frederik B, Thursday, 26 November 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link

fuck y'all, i'm too drunk. if someone else wants to grab the baton, please be my guest!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 November 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link

You should rotate these to throw off ppl's sense of cardinal direction

welltris (crüt), Friday, 27 November 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link

they're difficult enough the right way up tbh

schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 27 November 2015 09:21 (eight years ago) link

yeah I don't know how people even manage to guess

moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 27 November 2015 10:36 (eight years ago) link

NEED PUZZLE

El Tomboto, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link

also I have thought about the "rotate / skew" option - like when I was failing miserably at finding thessaloniki - and it would just be cruel

I had a hunch Göteborg would be easy for some people but I went with it anyway because frankly solving these is way more fun than watching people guess

El Tomboto, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/7qL7cml.jpg

pplains, Friday, 27 November 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link

OK while looking, I google mapped "Mountain Home AFB" and wow that looks like somebody was playing Go with farms and then dropped an airfield in the middle of the board

El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 November 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link

Golf course in northeast says USA but keep reading.

Circular bunker (?) arrangements argue for a military airfield but I just looked at basically every USAF base I can think of and didn't see one that looked exactly like that. On the other hand lack of a half-dozen big gray cargo jets just thinkin baout things argues against. Also, no golf ball antennae or fighters.

Also, looking more closely at the upper right, there's these big green ovals that look frighteningly like cricket fields, and I don't see any baseball diamonds. Shit.

El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 November 2015 01:38 (eight years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_Air_Force_bases

there are too many of these.

El Tomboto, Saturday, 28 November 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link

i'm starting my search in australia for this one, already found some similar looking things

ciderpress, Saturday, 28 November 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link


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