Guess the City

Apologies for the thread faux pas.

I guess the ugliness of the name suggests some sort of context of aesthetics thing because coming from the north of England where gill means stream and living in Scotland where Inver, as Tom D. has acknowledged, Inver means river mouth, the name doesn't read badly but without that I can certainly see how it would

I mean, it should be called Waihōpai anyway

Notwithstanding this of course

No reason a city can't make a repeat appearance!

It's interesting, Philadelphia has a LOT of Lenape (aka indigenous) names and a LOT of Welsh and Dutch names, so I'm used to some somewhat off-kilter naming situations— for example, I had many friends who went to Bala Cynwyd middle school, and I live near the Schuylkill River. I think that the residue of the Cargill corporation sort of rubs off on Invercargill and makes it more ugly than it actually is, to my eyes and ears.

the actual pictures don't make it seem very appealing either tbh

for example, I had many friends who went to Bala Cynwyd middle school

WTF?!??!

OK, so I'm just reading about the Welsh Tract...

Yeah, pretty wild, huh.

https://i.postimg.cc/43zCLv20/sinha.jpg

Thursday

Vienna?

it's Turku, Finland

https://www.google.com/maps/@60.450357,22.2776869,3a,75y,338h,105.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s637UKwlL34IcZwgV0neVkg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

can't find the shot as it was posted, but it's the exact same spot

ah, there it is, July 2014:

https://www.google.com/maps/@60.4503527,22.2776105,3a,75y,339.07h,92.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sT5TYfrSG1PxbQmkALyJ6fA!2e0!5s20140701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

How'd you get Finland?

It was obviously (Central or Northern) Europe. Found an identical Finnish traffic sign for bus + taxi lane. Then found that bus: part of the Vainion Liikenne fleet. checked the company’s Finnish Wikipedia page: active in quite a large section of the country, but I decided to try Turku first, as it was mentioned a lot (and I was guessing it wasn’t going to be Helsinki again, because we had it not too long ago), and yes, the church tower matched Turku Cathedral, so then it was off to Google Maps – found the spot quite quickly.

textbook case, I think. this thread taught me well.

bravo. this thread, even as a mostly lurker, is wonderful

Good job. I thought it might be Finland from the signs but either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_signs or Turku's end of speed limit signs need updating.

impressive!

and I was guessing it wasn’t going to be Helsinki again, because we had it not too long ago

Did we? I know we had Tampere but I don't recall Helsinki!

forgot about Tampere! But Helsinki too - I checked: 11 January.

ah yes, I see now - I think it was guessed correctly before I saw it, so it didn't register as much

https://i.postimg.cc/SxJ02mNb/Screenshot-2021-04-29-at-19-14-49.png

Thursday II

Google car has taken a hell of a wrong turn there.

Somewhere in Nevada? Bakersfield? I see those black tanker cars on road trips all the time.
(Wherever it is, doesn't look very city-like!)

That hovering thing in the front is scaffolding, so maybe somebody climbed up there for the shot?

There's a sign in the distance between the scaffolding uprights that I thought said "Mia" on the top left, but really it's too indistinct to be sure.

Needs someone with an eye for distinguishing industrial plants. I came across this pulping place in Columbus County, WA, which looks like the right kind of setting at least:

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article222997930.html

But I may be way off

Billings Montana?

If it was petrochemical, it would likely be a much more secure facility - but something is definitely either filling or pumping out those tanker cars on the tracks. And it's pretty green, not dried out like West Texas.

Here's the other side from the highway?

https://goo.gl/maps/Yd5sT3XVNk9aBid17

Turku in 29 minutes and Billings in 24. I'm going to have to wear extra hats to facilitate taking my hat off

Rad! Can't believe I got one. I spent a long two weeks in Billings one spring few years back.

lol at Finland quiz. I've had wine gums that have lasted longer.

what's the flag on top of that tower on the left?

Now I really want wine gums. Well done, waterface!

Ha, well played...I thought I detected a red & yellow KOA billboard in the distance, now I can see it's for Denny's.

Good job. I thought it might be Finland from the signs but either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_European_road_signs or Turku's end of speed limit signs need updating.

good link for this thread

kudos, waterface. don’t it feel good?!

nice link indeed, don't think I ever saw it

xp

lol:

This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.

It does! Funny I never would have gotten it if I hadn't visited there but after that crawling around the city on Google Maps was fun

https://i.postimg.cc/dt8zrLhG/v.jpg

thursday

For some reason, the image is dark sometimes and light others. If its too dark for anyone I'll try reupping it later

it’s dark for me in Zing, dark when I open the PostImage link in Safari, but it lights up when I click on it. spooky!

Fine in Chrome/Windows 10. That's not helping me work out where it is though.

Doesn't half look like Leeds.

We had Leeds the other week though

thursday

What time zone is cherry blossom in?

cb, post a photo so we can do this proper

Its really weird, I just tried with a new one and it went dark the minute I uploaded it, let me try somewhere else

https://i.postimg.cc/bdXyGFNx/Screenshot-2021-05-12-at-18-41-45.png

ok lets see if this is any better

oh I didn't think that post through, I meant "post a photo of your time zone so we can guess it" -- sorry if that sounded rude

well, we got a bonus view out of it, with a wider scope. result!