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.
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7405961,44.7917291,3a,75y,148.22h,1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipOT5Tiukg73LgRbWlN5KiYbyLze6nlAbIjxadrB!2e10!3e12!7i8000!8i4000
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
I would love to visit Georgia but driving around there seems a nightmare!
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
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"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 March 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
"I saw that the bins were made of uncoated steel alloy made only in Mongolia".
― Meet me at the corner of Haile and Selassie (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 26 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
yeah this is fucking nuts
― Dinsdale, Friday, 26 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
"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!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
i wonder if it went .......
so-so?
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
you could buy a lot of so-so things for a huge stack of 500 ruble notes back then!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
gezundheit!
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
too many unique-looking cities and not enough cities that make you think they're somewhere else
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
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?
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 26 March 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
ok here's something different
http://stuff.jklol.net/i/guess.jpg
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
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!
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/f3fKvbR.png
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
Not Cat City
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
buenos aires
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
it's definitely not Cat Town, the eye-patch is a bourgeoisie-poser dead giveaway!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
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.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
some monumentally massive gravestones there!
― calzino, Friday, 26 March 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
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
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
Yep Recoleta! A place I have been but don’t think I formed particularly strong memories of. Are you supposed to remember things?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
Looking at pictures does bring the memories back. It’s very prestigious real estate, with cats.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 26 March 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
I think I saw a cat inside of a glass-doored crypt in there
very prestigious real estate, with cats.
new board description
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 27 March 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
This can likely be reverse image searched very easily but I am sure ye can work it out without that.
https://i.postimg.cc/rFx4ZTPc/94514493-8-DF6-4-AC4-AA60-941-AFB3882-C1.jpg
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 06:55 (three years ago) link
nottingham
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:16 (three years ago) link
It’s not Nottingham.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 07:21 (three years ago) link
Warsaw.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link
did this building by some miracle survive ww2 or was it rebuilt?
― calzino, Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
It’s Warsaw University of Technology which was damaged in the war and restored in the fifties, I think, with a glass roof added later.
https://i.postimg.cc/fRnRMxtX/D49-A03-FB-E059-4-CC5-AC05-BCA3-A84-A7-FB6.jpg
It’s really impressive.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link
damn! beautiful
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 27 March 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
I kinda want to know what prompted caek to suggest Nottingham.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
hey you started it
Nottingham
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:39
― nashwan, Saturday, 27 March 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
First time I've got one! What a beautiful building.
Am I OK to post an image?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
As in, I've never quite worked out what the rules are (or if there are any!).
I think the only "rule" (unspoken) is to not post a new image until the current one has been guessed, so you're good to go!
― rob, Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
OK, cheers! Absolutely someone will get this right away because I've missed some sigh saying the name in massive capital letters...
https://i.imgur.com/JE2l9Qw.jpg
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Some sign[ ffs.
Bridgetown, Barbados is my first thought.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Not a million miles away but not Barbados, no.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
Curaçao?
― StanM, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
I mean, there is that famous harbour view of Willemstad with the painted houses - but the mountain in the background, no idea
― StanM, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
Curacao just dished out a 5-0 spanking of Saint Vincent & the Grenadines the other night
― calzino, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Thought it might be Bo Kaap in Cape Town but perhaps not quite colourful enough and that's not quite Table Mountain
― or something, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
Mindelohttps://maps.app.goo.gl/1GZwfRXe3NLU8juD6
Mindelo, Cabo Verde islands
― or something, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:30 (three years ago) link