Guess the City

How did you do it?

don't you remember the time we went to Bangor?

ha.

Was thinking Ireland, so GISed ferris wheel Ireland, looking for the blue stanchions.

If you move forward in streetview that wheel disappears, guess it's not permanent. Thought I'd leave it in to make things easier after three days of increasingly sparse responses tho

I have such a knowledge of Tesco petrol station architecture variations now.

Feeling possibly somewhere in Wales

― cherry blossom, Friday, 2 April 2021 08:07

I don't get it! Bangor was one of the first tesco's I checked on streetview but it doesn't look like that

This is Bangor in N Ireland

They've put one there now as well?

Hey, spare a thought for me. I was streetviewing N Irish Tesco petrol stations this morning, there are two of them, I checked one of them (the wrong one, as it turns out) but for some unaccountable reason skipped over the second.

^ two in Bangor, I mean

another. Bangor.

(n.b., joke handcrafted for breastcrawl)

It was meant to be: hadn't looked in on the thread in a few days and finished Great Granny Webster last night:

The Clandeboye Estate is a country estate located in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, 12 miles (19 km) outside Belfast. . .

The estate is also the inspiration for Dunmartin Hall in the 1977 novel Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, who lived at the hall as a child.

(did not make this connection until after I found the ferris wheel, mind) great book!

another. Bangor.

(n.b., joke handcrafted for breastcrawl)

I checked dozens of Tescos in Slovakia, Poland, Czechia and Hungary for this on Friday, started doing Ireland and N Ireland as well (on Saturday, I guess), but didn’t follow thru. There’s only so many Tesco stations a person can take in in one lifetime. I finally got a handle on navigating Streetview in the process, so it wasn’t all for nothing

I'm still confused where the petrol station is

Where Old Belfast road meets Killeen Ave

https://goo.gl/maps/RBgaBv2FqLL8MHPT7

Ah, google maps put it in a slightly different location and I couldn't find it

https://i.postimg.cc/ht0mDRgz/8-C22-D651-4262-4-BE6-A0-D1-F395-F14-A7-ED7.jpg

For a second I was like 'whoa is that a bear'

Is this one of the many cities with extensive streetview coverage in Mexico that got referenced during the Salta guesses?

I thought it was a cat

Is this one of the many cities with extensive streetview coverage in Mexico that got referenced during the Salta guesses?

Possibly....

The blue stripe is pretty unusual.

I thought it was a cat

I thought it was pokey the penguin.

It’s a pothole. I have cropped out the local councillor pointing at it.

Based on next to nothing - is it Leon?

It is not Leon.

Ah got excited for a moment having clicked on a random street there (actualy after guessing Leon) and immediately seeing those same cubey trees and very similar buildings.

The blue stripe is pretty unusual

^

I'm going to guess San Juan, Puerto Rico. I have noticed they like painting hazard paint on the edge of their pavements there.

It’s not San Juan.

Is this one of the many cities with extensive streetview coverage in Mexico that got referenced during the Salta guesses?
Possibly....

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 5 April 2021 11:51 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well as I've got nothing else right now and a cursory search suggests some similarities and they're all incredibly dense to search I'm just gonna guess one that was mentioned - Mazatlan?

Yes, it’s Mazatlan.

I couldn’t resist posting the one city that actually does have a big blue line down the middle of the road.

Haha I genuinely thought that was just the streetview line again. I got rewarded for laziness there, should really try and find the spot

Carnaval
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kzaLrHug3bLLyVnK7

There you go

i clicked around randomly and was suddenly confronted with a senor frog's lol

Wait what I was joking, is that a real blue stripe?!

Looks real!

I'm going to guess San Juan, Puerto Rico. I have noticed they like painting hazard paint on the edge of their pavements there.

― calzino, Monday, 5 April 2021

This was my guess too, or at least it was until I couldn't find it (and the old town part there seems pretty small)

It is real.

Mazatlan has a designated safe tourist route for cruise ship passengers, etc, marked in blue, that looks almost exactly like the street view thing.

https://i.postimg.cc/tgP4cDxV/thurs.jpg

Thursday

Kansas City? I feel like i've seen that building before.

Hole in one!

Blimey!

It's the Kansas City Convention Center. I think i must have been eyeballing a conference for work in 2010, which i ultimately didn't get to go to, and it has lodged in my mind.

https://i.postimg.cc/7L5ZtxZy/thurs-ii.jpg

Thursday II

Bologna

Definitely feels like Italy.

Ancona, maybe?

Not enough Fiat for Italy. There are a few Seat so I'm thinking Spain.

i want to go to there