it could be Korea? Seoul's cityscape is similar, but it's not big enough for there, so... Daegu perhaps?
― Neil S, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
feels like the port on the left is too big to be that far inland, but SK does have a lot of cities near the sea, good idea
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
mmmmm - Busan immediately doesn't feel very wrong
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link
It does seem like there are at least a few South Korean cities with cable car installations not unlike the one in the photo.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
I give up :-(
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
Another photo please?
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 July 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/3RCQnK8p/ry.jpg
ok!
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 15 July 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
I think I see Chinese characters in signs. I'm thinking maybe Taiwan now..
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 July 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
I thought that 7 underscore 0 (bottom right, on the road, in front of the parked cars) looked Korean fo sho
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Mokpo, South Korea
목포북항해양수산복합센터https://maps.app.goo.gl/XXXJPgRFit5npAw97
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
And the hilltop view
유달산 삼등바위https://maps.app.goo.gl/syXbSHQew8QFso1i7
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 July 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Nice, how did you get it?
― nashwan, Thursday, 15 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
It was maybe only the 15th South Korean city I looked at. The harbour helped
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
nice!
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
I saw everything from Busan to Jindo - if only I had kept at it :(
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
South Korea has a lot of cities!
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
Doesn't look like there's any magnificent square fortification round a hill, just tower blocks all blurred together by the distance.
― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
yeah, it only looked like it was one big complex on that first picture.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
can I just.. cherry blossom, you're very good at this. thank you.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/QCCG0Zrs/y4.jpg
Heat
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Hm, thought the graffiti on the building on the right would be useful, but just seems to be some initials.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Tells us it's somewhere the Roman alphabet is used at least
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
Can't quite figure out what's going on with that building -- clearly occupied (towels hanging off some balconies) but many of the windows are missing? Partially abandoned?
Going to have a wild stab in the dark guess - Luanda
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
it’s this building in Lunik IX in Košice, Slovakiahttps://www.teraz.sk/regiony/kosice-vsetci-testovani-na-novy-kor/460123-clanok.html
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
fuck, I've been to Košice! just for a few hours on the way to Michalovce, still should really have made a better guess.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
oh wow - that was fast
― StanM, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
how do you possibly look at that and go "oh, kosice slovakia"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
it looked a) extremely poor, but also b) very (Central) European (the foliage especially), which made me think that it might be a Romani neighbourhood (the people in the picture seemed to fit in with that) (also, we have had a different Romani neighbourhood in Bulgaria (?) last year iirc) - googled and pictures of Lunik IX came up
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.6965896,21.220741,3a,75y,223.89h,90.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-MjwvwQIEjBnt_YLs5nw9Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
And the SV link here
Even with picking one of the less distinctive buildings I had a feeling it might go quickly!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
But maybe not quite that quickly!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
took me a while, but this is the spot:https://goo.gl/maps/JgKsVcrVt7jJ1aMT9
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 July 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
shit romani are not very well taken care of are they - sorry for u.s. dumb
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 19 July 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
I read recently that things have turned around a bit in Lunik IX since 2019 with the introduction of a new mayor. Though I also read there are a number of anti-romani walls in different parts of the city - couldn't see one here but then Lunix IX is a stub and doesn't connect to the rest of the city
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
xpost - this explains it quite well: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/04/roma-in-europe-11-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
I love the use of this thread to shine a light on such things tbh kep 'em coming
― nashwan, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.planetradio.co.uk/one/media/60ed/cd25/7b99/1f70/aec6/f2b0/IMG_2913.jpg
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
Haha this is a good one.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Looks like a place that's obsessed with the American flag, but the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
ha!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
definitely Nicosia this time
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
the roads don't look like they're in a civilized country...
Dying laughing at this
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
Nottingham finally
― nashwan, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
Hangzhou
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
the one time I went to Hangzhou it was so foggy I couldn't see more than 50m in front of me
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah, thats what threw me at first too, this is as close as I could get.
https://i.postimg.cc/wMF4sVx7/han.png
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Lol I walked past this the other day, should've posted a pic here myself, v good
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
thr building on the right has a word beginning with pha, isn't that Korean?
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Not I'm this case, I'm pretty sure it's part of the facade
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Guys! Those buildings are so northern England I'm practically vomiting at how easy this one is.
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link