Apparently it is absolutely perfect in the summer, which I don't doubt.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
I’ve never been but Buffalo to me means Julius Eastman and Morton Feldman...
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 00:23 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/X7Yg6NdN/bve.jpg
Midweek scene
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
Weymouth
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
That Buffalo pic might be the first photo itt of a street I've walked down (not that I would've ever recognised it).
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
Here is the view in Weymouth - https://goo.gl/maps/CUUwKy49WxS3uHoE7
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
I was going to guess Swanage, heh.
― Tim, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Weymouth isn't a city?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
four minutes, is that a record?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
I think this game is allowed to play a little fast & loose with the definition of a city
xp
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
It's difficult enough!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
Oof that was quick, just recognize it out the box?
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
1. saw the sign with an ice cream and '99' so had to be UK seaside2. google image search for: uk seaside blue yellow hut "hot food"3. second result was Aunty Vi's Tea & Cakes in Weymouth
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
Ok, new one.
https://i.imgur.com/6afjthH.png
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
ha was juat about to post one, will hold off till next week
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 10:50 (three years ago) link
Getting a Black Sea vibe but nothing more than that yet
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
Yes, southern Europe, former Eastern bloc, now in the EU, makes sense to me.
Sofia?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:06 (three years ago) link
Not Sofia
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
Looks LHD tho, despite the cars pointing in both directions either side. Rules out most of Europe
― or something, Friday, 26 March 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
LHD and EU plates would leave Cyprus, Malta and Ireland, i think. idk, maybe Valetta at a push but i'm not sure it looks like Cyprus to me.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
tbf, i've never been to either Cyprus or Malta so am not in the best position to judge.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
Looking at Valetta and Limassol and neither seem to fit, the grey colouring of the high rise doesn't scream Mediterranean to me
― or something, Friday, 26 March 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
Ah, I've just realized something
Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
Hangzhou
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link
No, this one isn't China, there has been enough China already.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
The garbage truck being on the left hand side doesn't necessarily mean LHD though? It would have reason to be over there regardless
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 12:15 (three years ago) link
A quick search suggests Valetta, Limassol and Nicosia all use white bin lorries, not orange
― or something, Friday, 26 March 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link
Agreed but the google van also appears to be driving in the left xp
― or something, Friday, 26 March 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
not buying it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Agreed but the google van also appears to be driving in the left xpIt has to get past the truck!
― Ignore the neighsayers: grow a lemon tree (ledge), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
would you switch lanes if you saw a truck like that ahead?xp
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
And it's a 360 degree camera!
lol
also *wouldn’t you...*
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
Tbilisi
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7395329,44.7925446,3a,75y,138.35h,83.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipPYAVFYf40Dma9PGUJfNRdw03lKR3yArL-4nCEX!2e10!7i8000!8i4000
I thought it was Thessaloniki at first but it wasn't going to fit, then I thought...what about the other side of the Black Sea?
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
Wow
― or something, Friday, 26 March 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
but even so... the street, how!? I'll never understand how you guys do this
― StanM, Friday, 26 March 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
if you have a look at which parts of Tbilisi are available on street view, it's basically the old town and these two apparently random urban roads.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
I have no idea how you got "Black Sea" straight away though!
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
ha, if you keep pressing forward the Google car continues right down the middle of the road for ages
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
Black Sea was just intuition, maybe east balkan, maybe caucasia. Then that doesn't actually leave many possible cities, Tbilisi was third on my maybe list. Looked a good fit from streetviewing but had the new looking apartment building on the right suggested maybe not old town - then as CaAL points out, there's not actually a ton of streetviews available for Tbilisi anyway so I figured I'd have a good shot of finding it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
mighty impressive
― StanM, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
The license plates misled me - they apparently moved to the EU-ish format six years ago. Good work, CB.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
That might have sent me the wrong way but I know they have EU style plates in other non EU countries like Serbia
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
I have to second the bafflement at how easy some of you guys get this, without being natives or having seen the actual street in question on your travels. All I know is if something looks "USA or Canada" or "Not USA or Canada".
BTW the Tbilisi scene is not by google but by the "National Agency of Public Registry" which sounds a bit sinister.
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7405961,44.7917291,3a,75y,148.22h,1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipOT5Tiukg73LgRbWlN5KiYbyLze6nlAbIjxadrB!2e10!3e12!7i8000!8i4000
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
I would love to visit Georgia but driving around there seems a nightmare!
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
every single explanation on here is like "it was really quite simple, something about the picture seemed like suburban Nizhny Novgorod and from there it was merely a matter of determining which suburb of Nizhny Novgorod"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 March 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
"I saw that the bins were made of uncoated steel alloy made only in Mongolia".
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link