It's just there when I drop down into streetview, shows where coverage is available. I assume it's there for everybody. Maybe others have a different method for finding pics?
― or something
This is what I see on streetview. No line
https://i.postimg.cc/NFxLNBhF/Screenshot-2021-04-01-at-14-49-39.png
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
so what’s the company, if I may be so bold to ask?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
Are you on a PC cherry blossom? I see the line on my phone and tablet, they're all I use
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
Xp
Ah that explains it maybe, I'm on a macbook
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
@ledge: how'd you find that fast food co, i gave up trying
based on rhd + east asia + there being quite a few billboards up in english based on a quick street view ... manila?
― Jibe, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Not Manila.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
Saying its probably south-east Asia isn't much of a revelation, beyond that my radar is pretty weak on this one. The city I'm thinking of first doesn't seem to be covered much by streetview so I'll wander around it some before putting it in as a guess
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link
Good, it's cheating! Do we not have some sort of unwritten rule on using that? Kind of undermines the whole thing
I'm not searching the whole image! (Which wouldn't work anyway). I don't see anything wrong with using creative google-fu.
I mocked up the logo (screen cap was too blurry) and after getting nowhere with google found some other engines, yandex got the gold star.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
So that Argentina one screwed with my head because I read the "P" in Paseo as the Cyrillic letter "che" but I should have realized that the letter in the picture was reversed.
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Yangon?
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
Correct!
I didn't realise when i put the picture up but if you just google "Pullman" "a timeless experience" you get some guy's 2015 review of the Yangon hotel as the first result.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
I thought Mandalay but not with any real reason, then I noticed not much streetview coverage but didn't find it (because it wasn't Mandalay)
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Well played ledge. Anyone mind if I post another now we've got a nice pace going?
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
fuuuuuck i searched a bit after you saying pullman was interesting but didn't look for myanmar cause the pullmann hotel site i ended up on did not mention any hotels in that country.well done ledge and also i'm in awe at you recreating the logo to search for it!
― Jibe, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
go for it or something
― Jibe, Thursday, 1 April 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
I missed the pullman hint! After getting the lotteria logo I worked out the no motorbikes sign was definitely Myanmar, searching "'a timeless experience' Myanmar" on Yandex my new favourite search engine got a page for a Yangon luxury condo with that tagline. No way I can find that specific streetview location though!
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Thursday, 1 April 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/pVCzrYh9/Screenshot-20210401-134656-Maps.jpg
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
man that is tough, not much to go on. the car at the far end of the road seems to be driving on the left. i don't know why but it makes me think of new zealand, even though i've never set foot anywhere near there
― Jibe, Thursday, 1 April 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Looks sooooo much like a place I know, in Chico, CA, but since it seems that place isn't on streetview, my theory collapses.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
is it a police car?
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
the trees and the the curbs look like USA to me but the blue line on the street does not. Trying to make something of the grey box on the sidewalk in front of the streetlamp.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Ignore the blue line!
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
the trees and the the curbs look like USA to me but the blue line on the street does not.
I was thinking US too but the blue line has a more Andean feel, possibly northern Argentina
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
― Madchen, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Lol
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
Also, looks like the word "Google" is faintly stenciled on the fence, maybe a Google facility?
― o. nate, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
I've tried 2019 Google St, 2019 Google Ave, 2019 Google Rd, and 2019 Google Blvd but no dice
― rob, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Pq1Hs2Rg/ayyy.jpg
Weird, its showing up for me
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Salta?
― or something, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
SORRY
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Most of Colorado Blvd in Pasadena has a blue line on each side of the street indicating the do-not-cross point for viewing the Rose Parade. It's even roughly the same distance from the curb as the current pic. There's also a pink line down the center of the street that the float drivers use to steer, since they usually can't see out the front windows.
― nickn, Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
Ok perhaps I made this one a bit too hard
https://i.postimg.cc/6TxKSnQx/Screenshot-20210402-123837-Maps.jpg
― or something, Friday, 2 April 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
great, only 600 Tesco petrol stations in the UK
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 2 April 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
I think I see Alan Partridge there.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Friday, 2 April 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
Yellow, white and blue lines?
― StanM, Friday, 2 April 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
i'm just going to guess west hampfordshire
― treeship., Friday, 2 April 2021 13:40 (three years ago) link
Is that a Travel Tavern next to it?
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
I'm confused...are these last two images the same place?
― cherry blossom, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Yep. I liked the first pic because of the misdirection but figured we'd have been here for months if I didn't post another
― or something, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
I thought the pavement might have been a giveaway in that first pic but maybe that sort of pavement is more common than I realised
― or something, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
I think this is one of the petrol stations thats next to one of the big supermarkets, maybe
Feeling possibly somewhere in Wales
― cherry blossom, Friday, 2 April 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
It looks just like the Tesco petrol station in Milton, probably looks just like a hundred others too.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
The roofs of the houses look quite distinctive - like a nod to local vernacular architecture, but I can’t think of where.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
I’m going to say Hereford.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
The petrol station in Tesco's Hereford faces the store in that aspect - the kiosk backs on to the roundabout.
Also, for future reference, if there's a dual carriageway in the picture it's not Hereford.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
Not Hereford
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Nottingham
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Sadly no
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
the houses look like they might be big enough to be flats, which makes me think it's a biggish city.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link