no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!
http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
helpful clue
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ya none of that anywhere else in the world
looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.
oh lol jho :D
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
minsk
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ah got it,
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
(by doing the ailsa thing)
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
birmingham, al?
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
google is for cheaters
canada?
― lil yawne (harbl), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure you are
#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
ok montreal alisa wins next city
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
istanbul?
oh boooooring xp to lol canada
my error was to GIS rather than GS
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
ankara
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)
Baghdad?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Granny Dainger's is Montreal
― Jibe, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
haaaaaaaa
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Ed - Lahore, right?
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 October 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
^win
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
THATS MONTREAL???
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
many xps obv
― Bright Future (sunny successor), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
#3 url gives it away though
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
#3 is not very easy for Europeans
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?
― ailsa, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I was thinking upstate NY.
― Granny Dainger, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn I thought it was Legoland...
― snoball, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.
― What's good for Wall Street (call all destroyer), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Ithaca?
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Casper?
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
it's in the Western US
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Vegas
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
it's about the size of Pittsfield, MA
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
or Casper, WY (which it isn't)
― gabbneb, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it kind of looks like my memory of Daugavpils, but I was only there for a day or so almost 20 years ago so my memory might be serving poorly
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link
https://finisterre.surge.sh/t3/683.png
searching for third gear
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 15 January 2024 07:27 (three months ago) link
For some reason these all feel like Belarus to me.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 January 2024 08:12 (three months ago) link
The car was definitely designed by Elon Musk and goes well with ornamental pan with plastic bottles. Is that a Saab 900 ?Looks like Cyrillic script on the yellow sign but I can't decipher the lettersI was thinking Estonia on first pic, but Latvia would fit these communist bricks even better
― Nabozo, Monday, 15 January 2024 08:17 (three months ago) link
Are those yellow pipes for gas ?
― Nabozo, Monday, 15 January 2024 08:24 (three months ago) link
That's a Lada 110
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:58 (three months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/rsHx01x/t2.jpg
Time for lunch
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
Wondering why a works canteen would be a clue and given all the rest seems to point to Ukraine, and the canteen looks vaguely like I remember it, fuck it I'm going to say Chornobyl.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:34 (three months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/7N5XZwv/t1.jpg
something else
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:52 (three months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/bFJrgw2/Screenshot-2024-02-05-at-17-01-16.png
and one more
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:23 (three months ago) link
Gave in and lensed the shop before you posted that, which I confirmed with picture 2. I'd never have got it.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:27 (three months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/MGm19yz/Screenshot-2024-03-17-at-19-48-13.png
baby
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
Lille, France - I've seen that metal thing on the left myself :-)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BD1m3HG6uAUxJQo37
― StanM, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:32 (one month ago) link
( still don't know what it's supposed to be though, it's in a park with other art called "Garden of the Giants" )
― StanM, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:34 (one month ago) link
and the dinosaur has been filled in in the meantime, apparently: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zo8RskseWQv5LGZR9
― StanM, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
(nevermind, the original dinosaur is more to the right)
― StanM, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
Good one! Increasingly difficult to find suitable images that aren't going to be given up by image search straightaway
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 06:41 (one month ago) link
yeah I maybe shouldn't have replied, because I've seen that thing IRL :-(
― StanM, Monday, 18 March 2024 06:42 (one month ago) link
I disagree, real life knowledge should be used
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 08:45 (one month ago) link
Doesn't seem like the one with the roundabout tram wires, or the one with the couple on the steps, were ever got? unless they were the same place and the same as the canteen and wooden shop, which aldo got but didn't reveal?
― gene besserit (ledge), Monday, 18 March 2024 09:00 (one month ago) link
is roundabout with tall building? Thats definitely still unguessed
I can't remember couple on steps will have to check later
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 09:16 (one month ago) link
As I said, I lensed it and it gave me the coffee shop which is in Torzhok in Tver Oblast. Found the other structures there to confirm.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 18 March 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link
I had never even heard of it, and it seems pretty small for a city, hence me saying I would never have got it otherwise.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 18 March 2024 14:49 (one month ago) link
I had never heard of it either, it started when I saw a photo of this cat
https://i.ibb.co/thnFKhs/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-17-54.png
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 16:36 (one month ago) link
Interesting ShariVari was initially thinking Daugavpils, I thought maybe Smolensk or somewhere in that general region
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
After checking the Tver oblast, came across this Torzhok place, that looks like a film set and at one stage looked like it was going to be a UNESCO world heritage site
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 16:50 (one month ago) link
and there he was, the very same cat, in a streetview
https://i.ibb.co/hd82XxV/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-45-36.png
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 16:52 (one month ago) link
I turned the above streetview around, and they they were, the couple on the stairs
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
Here they are again in some kind of resort area in the reverse streetview of the Lada 110 shown above, which they seem circumspect about
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:01 (one month ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/sbd6jBb/Screenshot-2024-03-18-at-17-57-46.png
Then there was a photo of their dinner
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, 18 March 2024 17:02 (one month ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/g4pJhyn/Screenshot-2024-03-20-at-07-35-12.png
Spring is in the air
― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 08:09 (one month ago) link
The roofs and chimneys look UK to me, and there's a BeeSafe security company with that logo in the UK. My guess is a northern or a Midlands town.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 08:32 (one month ago) link
I'm confused, is this the same place as the photos of the couple?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:01 (one month ago) link
Definitely not.
Agree it's Britain, not sure Ive seen that form of cigarette bin anywhere else either.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:06 (one month ago) link
Beesafe cover Grimsby/Hull/Bridlington type areas so quite narrow.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:12 (one month ago) link
another clue?
― kinder, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link
https://whentaken.com/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:47 (one month ago) link
nice. You were SPOT ON WITH THE YEAR and 152 km away <<< my best from one play
― ledge, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:10 (one month ago) link