Guess the City

Does mocking up the 'cash & carry' logo in the back there and doing a reverse image search count as cheating? If so I'll keep my counsel :)

Not in my book it doesn't. If I were prepared to go to that much trouble I'd post the answer & take the credit.

yeah that's exactly the sort of effort which should be rewarded

is that a special version of the logo? (we don't have that over here)

It's Ulan-Ude in Siberia. Good old yandex.com came up with the goods, and it wasn't the first result that helped, as I found after looking at every sports stadium in Mongolia.

What is going on in the stadium (see also the cash and carry sign on the left): https://goo.gl/maps/4VLu1p4jquZ6sKVi6

Thought it was a fool's errand to look for the second image, was going to give up after my third try but then got lucky: https://goo.gl/maps/uBarJHdLzPRAKXz58

nice one! VIPs get to stand in the penalty box, eh?

Ulan-Ude it is, I thought it might go faster from the stadium seat flag colours. The two images were too good not to post though

Yep, good pics. The Google car does get to some interesting places. Seriously though I would like to know the provenance of some of the images; A 360 image of a sparsely attended Buddhist festival in the middle of Siberia I guess is not too incredible but a random girl in a hut?

Also noticed they have two stadiums next door to each other like Dundee

Girl in a hut is such a good shot!

Users can submit 360 degree "photo spheres" to Google street view. I think there's an Android phone feature.

Girl in a hut keeps on turning
Don't know where she'll be tomoooooorrow

https://i.postimg.cc/C18K4BnW/abc.jpg

Back again

UK

Up North, I'm guessing

Just joined GeoGuessr thanks to this thread and those Tom Davies youtubes. Won a Distance-based Battle Royale straight away but just guessing the country before 9 other randos is proving much harder (finished second in my first game but have done less well ever since). The 'Country Streak' game with no time limit is a nice way to ease into it though.

I don't think I've ever seen row houses with angled roofs like that before. Though from Google image search, they seem to be prevalent in the UK.

That looks extremely Belgian to me

I mean... look, this isn't the location but this is just a random street in the suburbs of Mechelen, Belgium (about 1 km from where I live)

https://www.google.be/maps/@51.0365306,4.5122894,3a,75y,114.47h,94.58t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sDeGZQnmi-zRkICpz5xpCPg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DDeGZQnmi-zRkICpz5xpCPg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D195.74017%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

could be anywhere in Belgium though, not a clue

It looks too clean to be in the UK!

Car is on the right, so not UK? Street is too wide to be a one-way.

Sidewalks not much higher than the street, so maybe a place with little rain?

Car is on the right, so not UK? Street is too wide to be a one-way.

there are no rules about what direction your car must face when you park it in the UK (unlike the US, and like most of the rest of the world). so that's not dispositive.

but the above ground power cables and flat roofs make me think this could be the US, not the UK.

neither the buildings nor the sidewalk look US to this USian

Above ground cables could be phone lines, still common in the UK.

defer to calzino on that but those are heavy guage twisted cables, which would be unusual for phone lines IIUC.

i agree the buildings look extremely weird for the US. but they aren't right for the UK either imo. the argument for US is the flat roofs. argument against US is the lack of a stoop.

the lack of double yellow lines on a tight corner like this also seems wrong for the UK.

the siding (clapboard?) on the end terraces also seems wrong for the UK.

last thing: you do get cars like that in the US obviously, but they are much more common in europe.

i have no idea!

does the low satellite dish angle indicate high latitude (+ve or -ve)?

this looks like montreal or something to me. definitely north america

I've never been to Belgium, but the link StanM posted does look extremely similar to the original photo, both in terms of buildings and the style of the sidewalks.

roofs are wrong for Montreal, though I did wonder about France when I first saw it

if it was just the two facades on the left, I would def think N America
if it was just the rest of the photo I would def think Europe

I'll go with whatever StanM says tbh

if it was just the two facades on the left, I would def think N America
if it was just the rest of the photo I would def think Europe

― rob, Wednesday, August 4, 2021 11:57 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you have a point.

randomly street-viewing some Belgian cities and it does seem like a strong choice

Liège looked like an especially solid candidate but idk how some of you find the exact spot

Some places in Quebec look like this but the sidewalks don’t look right.

stanm's link looks very, very similar.

I take back my assertion that it's the UK: it does feel pretty Belgian, or that corner of Europe in any case. Terrace houses and those window curtains made me think north of England, but the door on that very small narrow terrace doesn't look very British. There's a particular kind of cladding on the walls on either side of the road - that might narrow things down a bit.

the slate tiles? I thought that was pretty common too - still no clue where in Belgium to actually look, though.

https://i.postimg.cc/zDhB5Hpv/aby.jpg

Another perspective

Still very much in Belgium (orange back on traffic signs too), but what is THAT thing? hmmmm

oh, is it a train station?

Looks hilly, so if it is Belgium then is it Liege?

yeah, more wallonia than flanders

OK definitely not UK. Could be Belgium but could also be France up near the Belgian border like Lille or something - balcony and blinds look a bit French.

North of France: don't think the traffic signs have orange back sides there

https://i.postimg.cc/dV2jj5tZ/cable.jpg

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I think it's Lille

No, those are belgian plates (white background with red letters/numbers and the blue B to the left + street sign with blue background and white letters) - I'm still 100% thinking Belgium but that raised train stop with the weird roof... NO idea. Damn!