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Tampico, Mexico
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link
(I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridges until Puente Tampico showed its hideous face)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
South East Asia for sure, but doesn't seem modern enough for HCMC
― cherry blossom
Is it Vientiane?
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
it is! that's the biggest street in the Laotian capital, as viewed from the "vertical runway" (a giant stone arch thing made with concrete which the USA donated for the building of an airport)
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
I was there for a few days in 2005, perhaps the most laid back capital I've ever visited.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
this is from when I was there in 2008, yes very laid back, big contrast to horrible Vang Vieng
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
I had a lot of fun in Vang Vieng but I was only young.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
it was like Bad Boy Island in Pinocchio, thought I saw someone die within an hour of arriving.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
I went to Structurae and scrolled down through the list of cable-stayed bridgesi thought of this except a) using wikipedia or something as I hadn't heard of structurae and ii) i wrote it off as insane as there are probably a million cable stayed bridges. so, kudos.
― ledge, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
I did look at about a thousand bridges until I found the one
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/rcHnyZPh/Screenshot-2021-01-16-at-16-23-11.png
Well in that case
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
I was looking for tallest, diamond shaped cable-stayed, anything to narrow it down but it's clearly not particularly tall or particularly anything so I found nothing xp
― or something, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Does anyone here play geoguessr?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
I did for a while last year, but mainly just watch GeoWizard videos nowadays instead!
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
I played geoguessr in class sometimes when it was free, you get hardly anything in the free version now
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
I think perhaps it deteriorated somewhat in the three years between our visits.
― chap, Saturday, 16 January 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
cityguessr is a reasonable alternative to geoguessr but cities only
With those games there are clues which make sense in that context but wouldn't work on Guess The City (if a phone number appears someone would just google it)
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 17 January 2021 08:46 (three years ago) link
Second view
― cherry blossom, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
The differences between that one and the first view are... subtle :)
― Tim, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
This feels like the US Midwest to me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
That's what I thought too FWIW, I wondered whether it was Rockford, IL but it's not.
― Tim, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
Oops, I'm not sure where the other image is maybe I only uploaded one. I'll find and post the other one tonight
― cherry blossom, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
The bluffs coming up off the river remind me of La Crosse but the Mississippi is way wider than this in this part of the country.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
Looks too hilly for the midwest, though that might be because I grew up in Illinois
― rob, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Driftless Zone baby
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
oh yeah it's by no means impossible -- it's just my personal "looks like the US midwest" = a flat cornfield with nary a bump for hundred of miles, so my thoughts went more to western PA or like Hudson Valley type places
― rob, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Western PA is also the US Midwest by many people's lights, but I think we already have a thread for that...
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 January 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
It's worth noting that there are TWO bridges in that photo, the suspension one in the foreground and a tied arch bridge behind it. Tied arch bridge suggests a railway. It looks like Ontario, and even vaguely familiar, but I can't place it at all.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
There's a symbol on the bike path. Also looks like it's a historical park with a some sort of sign in the foreground. Not that I have any intuitions about the city....
― that's not my post, Monday, 18 January 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
Really looks like an Ohio River town. I noticed the two bridges, but the couple of places that had two bridges weren't those types.
― tots & pears (doo dah), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
That's a city?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 18 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
I said the same thing to myself, Tom
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 18 January 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
I was thinking Ohio River too. Looks like some places near Cincinnati maybe.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
Ok its not Chicago or Chengdu but there have been at least two places many multiples smaller than this one that got guessed!
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
I don't know exactly how US cities are defined but seems like they can be almost any size.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
Perth is a city, Tom. people in glass hooses...
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Where's the second view?? I'm intrigued by this one now.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
same!
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
(xxp) Yes, but, for instance, there are 69 cities in New York State alone (there's 62 in the entire UK) ranging in size from 8,175,133 to 3,071! Admittedly one of the UK cities only has a population of 1,841 but that's only through some daft religious designation of a city in medieval Wales.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
I'm basically playing "guess the river", trying to see what rivers are of this width in which cities. I think I've ruled out Michigan
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
I've been googling green suspension bridge/next to green tied arch bridge/green truss bridge/sculpture of bridge/sculpture of tied arch bridge/public park/by river and every combo thereof but nothing
― or something, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
Like everybody else I'm convinced it's US
― or something, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
xxxp but there are also very large towns, for example 337,000 people in Reading / surrounding built-up area, and that's not a city, has this come up as a point of contention on this thread before?
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link
Of course, I just don't know how so many miniscule towns in the US are designated as cities.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Wondering how unusual it is that the river is quite narrow (narrower than much of the Ohio river from what I've seen) yet there are two bridges quite close together for a river that narrow. Not noticing anything that fits whizzing between Pittsburgh and St Louis on GMaps and as far south as Memphis and Charlotte.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
Things like the words “city”, “town”, “village” etc often have specific legal definitions in different states. In Michigan for example everything is in a “township” by default, some of those are “charter” townships, some municipalities are “villages” and others are “cities” depending on how much autonomy they have from the surrounding townships. Then multiply all that by 50 states
― joygoat, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
No one complained when we had Seascale! (population 1,754)
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Ok let me get that second view
https://i.postimg.cc/dQgfnjTm/Screenshot-2021-01-19-at-17-24-58.png
Another Look
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
That looks so much like Ontario. Is it London?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link