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
maybe should be a separate thread, don't want to derail this one
― Ste, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
I wondered that, but I didn't mention it because no-one was mentioning it.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
is it cheating to use another browser window to google stuff like names of businesses and towns or is that part of the game?
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 24 June 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I totally do that. Makes up for the times when you land on a random stretch of highway with nothing but trees in sight.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Cloud_city_zpscd43e03f.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 29 June 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
I googled a business and got 0.147 km away and 6500 points
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 29 June 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Enh it just started to feel like cheating. I preferred the game when you couldn't explore around
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 29 June 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
http://stochasticplanet.tumblr.com/
― caek, Thursday, 25 July 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
interesting. i've never known anyone who uploads to panoramio but it seems quite popular as a post-holiday thing in continental europe.
― zvookster, Thursday, 25 July 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
that site makes me love the planet
― ogmor, Friday, 26 July 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
there are beautiful places on earth. ok, i'm off to drive my car to a cafe in a shopping complex.
― fervently nice (Treeship), Friday, 26 July 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DySVLbc.jpg
― 乒乓, Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
the terrain, fortresses, some of the other buildings suggest adriatic coast within the venetian sphere of influence
is it even a city, it looks fairly small
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
surely we do not need a 'guess the hamlet' thread
― 乒乓, Sunday, 15 September 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
half of the assumptions in your post were correct, aye
― 乒乓, Sunday, 15 September 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
makarska?
― ogmor, Sunday, 15 September 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Positano?
― I_Got_Loaded, Sunday, 15 September 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
^
― 乒乓, Sunday, 15 September 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
city in the old world is an ecclesiastical term so some places with mediaeval or earlier significance are cities even if they are smallish today, in contrast to that place which seems to derive its importance from being written about 50 yrs ago
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link