Guess the City

Kinder with the assist >>>

https://www.google.com/maps/place/89+Grosvenor+Pl,+Margate+CT9+1UX,+UK/@51.383988,1.3813953,3a,90y,260.38h,83.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPmmWuYzopsZl0A7JRiE-OQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d953a96d37ef2d:0x94496a2b02890b8f!8m2!3d51.3839531!4d1.3812289

dammit I had it and couldn't make the URL work! https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3841753,1.3813432,3a,75y,283.21h,82.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sf7CFyxb0yTiuMWpLcOheCQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Df7CFyxb0yTiuMWpLcOheCQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D193.75241%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e4

nice one!

that's bloody cheeky to roll it back to 2015 in the street view

ah well done! how did you find the street?

Good job! I went through all the council logos of the UK (found a good Medium account that hosts them) but the crudeness of the lines threw me and I didn't make the match especially as the two separate swoops on the right look like one on the bin.

personally I’m would have had no idea where to start until the council logo was spotted. And then I just trawled the aerial view of Margate until I found a cheaper area of town with terrace roofs. When I found it I was sure I was wrong because the plants were all overgrown, jeeze. But tomorrow saw it more clearly than I.

https://i.ibb.co/r0Rp1wn/Screenshot-2022-03-11-at-09-17-12.png

Friday

A welcome revive, thanks CB.

I haven't a clue so I'm going to guess Boulder, Colorado.

Nottingham?

yay, we can guess a city again!

I can't, I have no idea :-)

Cool sky. At the moment my money's on South America or Asia - in other words, no idea either.

I was just thinking of this thread recently, specifically the time we had Dnipro as the city. Glad to see it revived.

Getting a Roanoke, Virginia vibe

that's a city of over 500k, maybe 1m people. roanoke seems to small.

i think it's the US though. looks like an engineered river on the left hand side.

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Does look like it, but this seems to be a much larger city than Roanoke.

Looks like a golf course on top of the hills in the foreground.

My first thought was Brisbane.

I think we can have a second view early on this one

https://i.ibb.co/QQ91PPT/ab.png

intriguing... but I still have no idea re: continent even

gut feeling though: unlikely to be europe, oceania, africa or antarctica :-)

Man, I thought I was on to something but it's not Porto Alegra ( https://www.google.be/maps/@-30.0927115,-51.2101043,3a,75y,330.21h,92.05t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipMESL6IGxD57whbfTam2H_jhPc-VtliPpBUqQZI!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMESL6IGxD57whbfTam2H_jhPc-VtliPpBUqQZI%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-20-ya221-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!5m1!1e4 )

I guess the city feels North American but I can't seem to find a location that's just the right amount of mountainous/flat - I'm probably all wrong thinking wind turbines = sea shore, aren't I.

(Alegre with an -e) (so, it's not that)

The city itself, with its size and sprawl, looks Californian, but the hills are way too green for that. I'm not sure there's any city that big surrounded by mountains in the Pacific Northwest or in the Appalachians. So if its in the US I'm stumped on where it might be.

the grid seems too irregular for the the west coast of the US, and the vegetation seeems wrong for the PNW, but i also don't have any better suggestions.

looks like a port based on the second photo (towers/cranes? by water)

Huh, I didn't notice the water over there at first glance. Guess that rules out Appalachia.

Is it Wellington NZ?

See I thought the second picture was looking down from Karori across Zealandia so Wellington was an option for me but it's way too big I think.

Yes I think it's way too big for NZ, this looks like a city of a few million. Trees are wrong for Australia, but I don't know what they're right for. Pretty green, so somewhere with decent rainfall. Doesn't look European. A second-tier city in South America perhaps, or in a temperate part of Africa.

Way too big to be Split, tho for a second I'd convinced myself

my guess is it's either Japan or somewhere in Europe

Nothing about this says Japan to me, sorry - I see a building with a red water tank on the roof in the first pic (bottom left corner -ish) which feels like it's very North American? Just looking for the right mountainous/flat region - maybe the water is a lake and not the ocean? The trees are very green, nothing arid anywhere - maybe Canada?

it IS on Earth, right? :-)

I'm now thinking a city in China somewhere, I'm shit out of ideas.

The green lines that cross the city in the first pic I think are canals, because on at least one there are bridges.

Can't see much that resembles a church, which may or may not imply something.

Pretty striking how the city just stops, doesn't peter out into suburbs or shantytowns - there's city and then right next door there's forest.

Lots of public housing style developments.

If we could identify what sort of trees we're looking at in pic 2 that might give an idea of the region.

And yet for all that I'm still completely stumped!

first pic: looks like a golf course (mentioned earlier) and maybe also a ski station in the woods in the front (the succession of poles could be the skier-puller-up-the-mountain thingy?)

also in the first pic: a very twisty/meandery river in the distance and maybe a sports stadium with red chairs?

second pic: there's something in the water to the in front of the wind turbines (to the left from our POV) - and I can't seem to imagine what it could be - a dam?

No churches may suggest China.

China seems like a good suggestion. It has plenty of cities that would be big enough, and I see some that have undeveloped hills not unlike the ones in the photos very near to a dense urban area.

Having just looked at a few Chinese cities with canals and near undeveloped hills, there's certainly a similarity, but the Chinese cities seem a lot more high-rise. This shot of Shaoxing looks a bit similar to pic 2 though:
https://image.baigolf.com/course/613/29db5ab8ad8f49820a668fe0e283df80.jpg

this is great

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excellent stuff

Found it! Sapporo Teine (Olympia Ski Center)

well done, secret ride

SAPPORO TEINE
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bGZrogGroTBzkhwy8

also, ahem:

my guess is it's either Japan or somewhere in Europe

― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 09:53 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nothing about this says Japan to me, sorry

― StanM, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:10 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I sit corrected. well done!

Good work secret ride! How did you get to Sapporo?

First tried Vancouver (but as caek mentioned, vegetation was wrong) and Denver (too arid). Then a few South Korean cities, which seemed better on vegetation, but there were too many high rises. After that I tried Sendai, Kyoto, and finally Sapporo.

https://i.ibb.co/7KmmkxS/24.jpg

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