Guess the City

Ah, I've just realized something

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

Hangzhou

No, this one isn't China, there has been enough China already.

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

A quick search suggests Valetta, Limassol and Nicosia all use white bin lorries, not orange

Agreed but the google van also appears to be driving in the left xp

not buying it

Agreed but the google van also appears to be driving in the left xp

It has to get past the truck!

would you switch lanes if you saw a truck like that ahead?

xp

And it's a 360 degree camera!

lol

also *wouldn’t you...*

Tbilisi

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?

Wow

but even so... the street, how!? I'll never understand how you guys do this

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.

I have no idea how you got "Black Sea" straight away though!

ha, if you keep pressing forward the Google car continues right down the middle of the road for ages

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

mighty impressive

The license plates misled me - they apparently moved to the EU-ish format six years ago. Good work, CB.

That might have sent me the wrong way but I know they have EU style plates in other non EU countries like Serbia

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.

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7405961,44.7917291,3a,75y,148.22h,1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipOT5Tiukg73LgRbWlN5KiYbyLze6nlAbIjxadrB!2e10!3e12!7i8000!8i4000

I would love to visit Georgia but driving around there seems a nightmare!

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"

"I saw that the bins were made of uncoated steel alloy made only in Mongolia".

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

yeah this is fucking nuts

"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!

i wonder if it went .......

so-so?

you could buy a lot of so-so things for a huge stack of 500 ruble notes back then!

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.

gezundheit!

too many unique-looking cities and not enough cities that make you think they're somewhere else

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?

ok here's something different

http://stuff.jklol.net/i/guess.jpg

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!

https://i.imgur.com/f3fKvbR.png

Not Cat City

buenos aires

it's definitely not Cat Town, the eye-patch is a bourgeoisie-poser dead giveaway!

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.

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

some monumentally massive gravestones there!

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

Yep Recoleta! A place I have been but don’t think I formed particularly strong memories of. Are you supposed to remember things?

Looking at pictures does bring the memories back. It’s very prestigious real estate, with cats.

I think I saw a cat inside of a glass-doored crypt in there