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Google maps labeling Macau as "Zhuhai", smh

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link

Got lucky, just googled "yellow church" and it was in the first page of image results.

This is the first one of these I've ever got so I'm feeling very pleased with myself. Not so much into setting them myself though so please go ahead.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link

I was a long way out on this, I'd got it into my head the second photo was Monterrey Argentina but that the first photo wasn't. Saw the third photo and abandoned any notions of south americ

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link

The incongruous penguin and friends should have been more of a giveaway it wasn't South America

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link

when I google "yellow church" there is one in Macau but it's another one alltogether :-)

StanM, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link

This would have been view #4

https://i.imgur.com/jEUCAim.jpg

Can never tell how easy/hard these will be.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link

Anyway, who's up next?

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link

Its only a matter of time before there is one with a branch of Card Factory, a fully grey sky, and a road sign that says Bosom-on-Trent 4 miles and it will be in Wenzhou

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link

There will be a perfect replica of The Britannia stadium and a Pulis lookalike on the street outside a hologram of Greggs. It will then turn out that Tony is the manager of Shenzhen Town

cherry blossom, Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link

A much easier one, I think:

https://i.postimg.cc/hGqSSR7G/0948-D7-CC-DE69-414-A-9042-EE68946-B9-EDA.jpg

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link

Alexandria?

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link

Not Alexandria.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link

Found a mosque which looks very much like that in Dubai, but not next to a highway.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link

Al Khor, Qatar?

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link

Not Al Khor or Dubai.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link

Doha?

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link

Not Doha.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link

Avenue des Martyrs
https://maps.app.goo.gl/4vaFotTatZVeGJP37

Sfax, Tunisia. Was working my way along North African coast and that building came up on the first page of a gis of Sfax. It's a fish market

or something, Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link

Indeed it is. Well done!

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link

the closest I got was wondering around Algiers for a bit

calzino, Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link

snazziest fish market I've ever seen

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/PJHThGrq/eee.jpg

Monday morning

cherry blossom, Monday, 15 March 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link

looks a bit like Manchester at first glance

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link

Lol I was thinking the estuary and skyline looked like Liverpool, the Mersey and the Wirral from Everton valley if you squint hard enough

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link

I was looking at the river (bay?) and what appears to be a big inlet or tributary - maybe even a massive canal going through the middle of town and I started thinking about one of the ports along the Rhine but I think the Rhine is probably too narrow. Hamburg?

As usual I feel I'd have a better chance if I could see some church towers.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link

it looks Nordic and/or Baltic to me, but I don't think the layout is that of Hamburg. Helsinki perhaps?

Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 15 March 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link

Belfast?

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link

Nord Iron

calzino, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link

First instinct is Europe, maybe France? Looking for a French city with an estuary, Le Havre seems like it could fit, similar architecture. Can't find that spot yet tho

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link

don't those pine trees look kinda southern?

StanM, Monday, 15 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link

Pretty sure they have those in Normandy at least.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link

The trees are throwing me a bit.

Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link

100 Rue Georges Lafaurie
https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXbkLjWhZsg5izn4A

Turns out I was right, it is Le Havre

or something, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link

oh wow

StanM, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link

Good one.

Tim, Monday, 15 March 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link

Good work. good when the initial hunch comes in

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 07:14 (three years ago) link

https://i.postimg.cc/wjZLwPrb/fog.jpg

tuesday

cherry blossom, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link

Perth, Australia?

Tim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania?

calzino, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link

I was thinking maybe somewhere in Quebec on the St. Lawrence.

o. nate, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link

it's not Montreal, and I don't think there's another option for a place as dense as that

something about the architecture / roofs looks not North American to me

rob, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link

I’m pretty sure it’s Perth now.

Tim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link

The trees don't look right for Australia.

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link

pretty sure it's in a deciduous zone.

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link

Is it Dnipro, Ukraine? I can't find the exact view from that angle, but some bridges and buildings look very suggestive of being in the right place.

o. nate, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link

i've tried the mid-atlantic seaboard in the u.s. and some baltic cities. can't find anything that looks that bright / new lol. feel like it's gotta be a somewhat major shipping port (river adjacent to large body of water?) with those bridges.

xp!

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link

the row of buildings at center right stretching into the bg looks soviet possibly

map ca. 1890 (map), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link

Think it's Dnipro, found the bridges

or something, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link

So o. nate otm

or something, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link


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