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
Looks LHD tho, despite the cars pointing in both directions either side. Rules out most of Europe
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
This last one was one of my favourites to play, along with Papeete and Samarkand (the first of finding the actual streetview). I think exactly because of vibing the intangible
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
yeah this is fucking nuts
― Dinsdale, Friday, 26 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
"there's not actually a ton of streetviews available for Tbilisi anyway"
perhaps those Google street van drivers are intimidated? This is the city where the most famous Georgian bandit of the 20th century, Soso, was involved in a bigtime armed robbery in 1907!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
i wonder if it went .......
so-so?
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
you could buy a lot of so-so things for a huge stack of 500 ruble notes back then!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
I heard that in Irkutsk in the mid-1900s there was something like a 1% chance of any individual being murdered in any year.
Have tried to find some pictures of Irkutsk for this thread before but it would be a bit too easy, nowhere else really looks anything like it.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
gezundheit!
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
too many unique-looking cities and not enough cities that make you think they're somewhere else
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Weymouth isn't a city?
Particularly disallowing UK towns that are not actual cities seems off, given that this is a very local and arbitrary distinction that pretty much doesn't exist elsewhere in the world?
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
ok here's something different
http://stuff.jklol.net/i/guess.jpg
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
They may take our lives, but they will never take our local and arbitrary distinctions that pretty much don't exist elsewhere in the world!
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/f3fKvbR.png
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
Not Cat City
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
buenos aires
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
it's definitely not Cat Town, the eye-patch is a bourgeoisie-poser dead giveaway!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
It looks like it could be a cemetery, and cats in cemeteries always make me think Paris, but the bench doesn’t look like Pere Lachaise.
It could definitely be Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.5880847,-58.3929371,3a,15y,58.77h,93.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPq2onB3bzCNfi6Rop7OXn9YLQsOvw9nMBYYFiu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya36.317368-ro-0-fo100!7i7200!8i3600
Jim (and ShariVari) correct by looks of it
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
some monumentally massive gravestones there!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
yeah cats in a cemetery always makes me think of la recoleta first, though cats in a cemetery seems to be a common thing. ive never been to buenos aires incidentally, but i did plan a solo trip there many moons ago, and have read up on the city a bit
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link