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― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
go to enough places and it turns into elimination & working with the map
― anky, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
i want to go to all of the places
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
is it even in asia? i like the haerbin guess... decaying euro architecture and new apartment blocks. but i don't think it's china. if it is somewhere in asia, i want to say, like, a tough industrial south korean city like... busan? i don't know....
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
Looks superficially Asian, but my gut feeling now is somewhere formerly behind the Iron Curtain...
It's definitely not Korea. The cars are too colourful.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
the points against it being in asia are: the quietness of the street scene + no advertising or other shit all over the buildings + no obvious informal commercialization of public spaces + lack of development across the river
― dylannn, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
is it somewhere in scandanavia?
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
is it helsinki? is that what helsinki looks like?
That green building looks Russian or Ukrainian. Maybe Dniepropetrovsk?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
Or Tomsk, idk.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
Has taken me about 100 goes on that geoguessr.com site to land somewhere I've actually been! (Cocoa Beach, FL)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed that the lack of signage seems odd for China. What put me over there was the way the courtyard is organized...but that might be a red herring. I like the Iron Curtain angle...maybe one of the Asian Soviet states?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
no hits yet but closer
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
The bottom row of buildings looks like classic imperial Russian architecture but I'm thrown by the marsh stretching of into the distance.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I bet it's Vladivostok.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
the copper roofed buldings suggest official architecture of former soviet union, the geography (low elevations to horizon, probable articial lake in proximity to river) suggests the eastern european plain, only the tower in the top left corner suggests post-FSU development, other buildings look relatively old, no development on far side of the river suggests relatively small city, narrowish river discounts lower volga
fairly sure it is either ukraine or russia, probably the latter
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Nakhichevan was a field of wheat away.
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
so... where was it?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
not sure what a field of wheat is in this context
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
are you "nakhichevan"?
― dylannn, Friday, 17 May 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
i think so
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
unless he means the place, but it doesnt look like anything in anatolia or the caucusus
― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 17 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Volgograd, maybe?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 17 May 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Not ashamed to admit I spent the better part of an hour combing Google Earth views of Volgograd, Rostov, Baku and a few other Caucasus-ish cities. I couldn't find any matches for the view in that pic. Stumped.
― Millsner, Friday, 17 May 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
mattybuddy
i need another hint, something....
― dylannn, Saturday, 18 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
please.
― dylannn, Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Kiev.
― Grampsy, Sunday, 19 May 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
*farts*
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
rostov-on-don
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Nakhichevan-on-DonIn 1779, Rostov-on-Don became associated with a settlement of Armenian refugees from the Crimea. The two settlements were separated by a field of wheat. In 1928, the two towns were merged. The former town border lies beneath the Teatralnaya Square of central Rostov-on-Don.
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
jeez.good one.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
i got the pic from roman flugel's fb. probably from a hotel?
― the display names will fall like rain (Matt P), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/haEJ0Co.jpg
― 乒乓, Saturday, 8 June 2013 12:26 (ten years ago) link
Moscow!
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Saturday, 8 June 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
eeeezy I'd know that subway map anywhere
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
the moscow subway stations are really cool/ornate.
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
unfortunately, i wasn't there long enough to get to visit this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dostoyevskaya_%28Moscow_Metro%29
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Dostoyevskaya_station_%28Moscow_Metro%29.jpg/800px-Dostoyevskaya_station_%28Moscow_Metro%29.jpg
― Treeship, Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
A fairly easy one:
http://i.imgur.com/gve0SzG.jpg
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 10 June 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Dubrovnik?
― Neil S, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Not Dubrovnik.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Monday, 10 June 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I realise that saying it's relatively easy is a) probably not true and b) potentially misleading, now. I'm pretty sure some ILXors will have been there though.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 07:41 (ten years ago) link
http://geoguessr.com/
(google earth game of guess where the hell you are)
― Ste, Monday, 24 June 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
scored 8959
― Ste, Monday, 24 June 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
okay somehow I wound up on the field in a stadium and I can only go in a circle around the field
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I did that too (I think it's in Japan somewhere)
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
is the underground transit mass grave scene in the background of dayo's pic one of those dancing gorilla things you only see if you are concentrating specifically on it or is there another reason nobody is mentioning it
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=soccer+cafe+wolfsburg&fb=1&gl=us&hq=soccer+cafe&hnear=0x47af92424757e6b1:0x425ac6d94ac3ad0,Wolfsburg,+Germany&cid=0,0,13740006234275570925&ei=vsfIUeHeNqvi4APbiYFQ&ved=0CLIBEPwSMAQ
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
http://bit.ly/12lNbO1 i just got 10,890 on this. Challenge my score!
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 June 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
http://bit.ly/16vwSTo 18726. Weird how we ended up almost exactly the same distance from the random bit of landmark-free countryside in Canada.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
10387 ooh
― Ste, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link