and the drive up mount lemmon from the desert floor is awesome.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
96.http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2949972884_9c268b1dda.jpg
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
sydney
― caek, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i thot it might well be tucson - the houses looked very phoenix-y, but the mountains were off - but couldn't GIS a picture that looked similar - are those mountains part of tucson mountain park or something else?
― gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think so, cause that doesn't include Mt Lemmon, right? Which I think is within Catalina State Park. I doubt any of the other surrounding mountains could accumalate that large of an amount of snow.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
96 Miami?
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
the rocks over circular quay: A+, would visit again.
― caek, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
It's sydney
it is sydney. the pic i MEANT to post was of pago pago, though. :(
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
97. Pago Pago
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
91 is driving me mad. This is what I can see:
- it's on a coast, with open sea beyond - no islands, no opposing coastline, nothing- it's got what looks like 3 harbours. On is man-made, the other two are natural (and could conceivably be rivers or, on the left, a lake)- all the harbours are underused. Only the man-made one has anything in it, being a fairly large cruise ship, a container ship and a couple of smaller craft- one steel-arch bridge over the harbour/river mouth. Quite a big bridge, nice red arch- it's full of high-rises, so really dense, and yet there is loads of woodland on what should normally be perfectly-habitable ground. There's one crazily-dense part in the middle, surrounded by forest. Why build like this?- it's all very green, the only bare ground is on the rocky hills in the foreground- only two distinctive buildings - a round tower block just below and to the left of the bridge; and what could be the top of a space needle dead centre, at the back behind the hill.- looks quite clean- the photographer is higher than the hills in the foreground, so the city lies on a thin strip twixt mountains and sea- the area round the man-made harbour is low-rise, suggesting a historic centre. Not so many tower blocks as would suggest breakneck growth- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000
Help me please. Please.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 October 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
looks like it could be a canal between those two green fields?
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
it's full of high-rises, so really dense, and yet there is loads of woodland on what should normally be perfectly-habitable ground. There's one crazily-dense part in the middle, surrounded by forest. Why build like this?
key question
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
indian burial ground?
― caek, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
haha that's what i was thinking. some sort of ruins. maybe a park?
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
93 is pondicherry/puducherry
― velko, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
lol pudcherry
i'm thinking wet ground/unbuildable swamp
are you guys thinking latin america?
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
that waterway is way too small for panama canal, right?
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah latin america. first thought was mexico, due to that building in the left foreground resembling a mayan pyramid.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
91: Kobe?
― I DIED, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i think its not dense enough for kobe. i think its colon, panama.
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
doesn't appear to be big enough for Kobe, no? per google earth Kobe does have a sizable forested area just nearby though
xp
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
also the one bridge i see in kobe looks different
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
ok not colon either
― 69, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I got to Kobe too when looking for the bridge, but Kobe's too big I think.I was thinking European Mediterranean, but I see no spires or churches. I think it's too green for east/south Med.I don't think it's an island country because the port isn't busy.I think the bridge is over a rivermouth, as there seems to be the remnants of an old harbour just inside it, and if it was a natural harbour it would have been developed in preference to building a new oneA lot of the residential towers appear to have cube shapes perched on top. Is that characteristic of anywhere?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
it's not kobe, there are not open fields that close to the city center. downtown kobe looks nothing like that. the tiered hotels are not a japanese style.
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I see no shanty town, which I'd expect to see if the country was poor because of all the unused land
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
a lot of things could be out of the frame: shantytowns, a central tourist area, etc
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't find any coastal city in Mexico or Cen America that is both as large and as hilly.
xp true
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
this part of town could be a holehttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/shitholearea.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Hualien City is similiar but not quite.
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought i was onto something with Hobart, but nope
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
is it Penang / Butterworth Malaysia ?
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think so. there's not two big green fields seperated by a waterway near the shore.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 17 October 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this is frustrating
― jergins, Friday, 17 October 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
To answer Ismael I'd say most of the points are correct except this one
- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000- I'm guessing a population of around 300,000
I think its population is more like 100,000
― cherry blossom, Monday, 20 October 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i feel like im running low on cities i can think of to post.
― 69, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Great, that means it's even less likely that it's somewhere notable xp.
I thought of a reason for the crazy density among the woodland left-of-centre. I think the forest is on higher ground than the buildings, so that the high-rises are in narrow, shallow canyons snaking back from the main city. Don't suppose this'll jog any memories?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Not A Coruna, in Galicia?
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
alternate view of 91
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2958597096_63d1ed43b1_o.jpg
― cherry blossom, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
almost has to be japan, korea or Taiwan
― Dead Cat Bounce (Ed), Monday, 20 October 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
97
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/3040343837_1a4f4fa2c8_o.jpg
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Bradford?
― Ed, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I think it is Keighley
― Ed, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Correct first time!
98. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/3040343573_6d41a27c5c_o.jpg
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/3040343573_6d41a27c5c_o.jpg
Are you going to tell us what 91 is first?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yes!
91 is here - you should be able to see the distinctive shape from this
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.194347,128.587074&spn=0.050457,0.076904&t=h&z=14
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Well that's a relief. You have no idea how many hours I spent gazing at that photo, hoping the Eiffel Tower or the Pyramids would suddenly emerge into view
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha sorry. I know it was kind of an obscure one but people were successful at getting all kinds of obscure ones and I thought the shape kind of distinctive
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link