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Myrddraal
08-13-2007, 04:11
wow, he's good...
No un solved city? ...
Come on, it has been a while since I have been able to put two minuttes of my schedule to do a little google earth.
GH?
...
I guess it is still night there.
Pending GH's city...
Here are something for the impatient:
clues:
- This city housed a famous pilot training school and some of today's world leaders trained there.
- It has changed name three times.
- German POW built the train station (rephrased)
- +600K
https://img373.imageshack.us/img373/8397/entrya1sb6.jpg
clues?
Too impatient my friend... :laugh4: fixed in the original post.
i'm going sleep
i see america - west coast
cheers
B.
GeneralHankerchief
08-13-2007, 20:36
Bratislava?
I'll post my pic in a minute.
GeneralHankerchief
08-13-2007, 20:42
Okay, here we go. Apologies if this has been posted before.
https://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n231/GeneralHankerchief/ge02.jpg
Clues: This city's country is something of an anomaly when compared with the surrounding area.
This city is the third-largest, population-wise, in the country.
I see a western looking city.
It has roundabouts and a traffic machine in the building.
The sea appears to be on the west side.
The shadows indicates that we are in the southern hemisphere.
I can't judge whether the traffic is left handed.
The clues indicate that we might find ourselves on a continent sourrounded by developing contries? Maybe South America or Africa?
Third largest city... It is not Brisbane because I have lived there and don't recognise it.
Lot's of outdoor amd large parking space is disfavouring Asia.
I can't think of any city that matches...
GeneralHankerchief
08-13-2007, 23:28
You are correct about it not being Brisbane.
Was Bratislava correct for your last pic, Sigurd?
Louis VI the Fat
08-13-2007, 23:47
This city has already been posted. But GHs picture shows a different part of it. ~;)
You are correct about it not being Brisbane.
Was Bratislava correct for your last pic, Sigurd?
Bratislava is not correct...
This city has already been posted. But GHs picture shows a different part of it. ~;)
Alright Louis... If you take both the unsolved cities, you get a bonus point.
Louis VI the Fat
08-14-2007, 10:53
Alright Louis... If you take both the unsolved cities, you get a bonus point.Would I ever dissapoint you?
Bishkek, Kirgistan and Cape Town, South Africa.~;)
Would I ever dissapoint you?
Bishkek, Kirgistan and Cape Town, South Africa.~;)
Ah... Never even tried Cape Town.
Bishkek is correct.
What gave it away?
a quickie
(had a very very very bad day - humour me)
https://img252.imageshack.us/img252/324/qwertyuiopaib2.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
i was supposed to be an airport complex,
somehow, when no-one was looking, i became this...
it seems that more residents owns boats than cars
Louis VI the Fat
08-14-2007, 17:10
Bah, I had hoped to get lucky with Miami, but I can't find the area.
***
Shall we try and have several pictures up at the same time then? To serve the impatient? Or won't that work, will it be too confusing?
Here is a second question, to try and see how it goes:
https://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9163/georgiaku2.jpg
Clues? No clues yet! :knight:
***
The clues gave Bishkek away, Sigurd. My Google-fu led me to it. I think I simply tried 'German prisoner war pilot school' or something. Bishkek came out straight on top. I never would've thought of Kyrgystan myself, I actually thought it was guessed correctly as Bratislava.
KukriKhan
08-14-2007, 20:22
We've been playing this game for 5 months, and over 1,000 posts, so I thought we might be interested in a roll-up summary of where we've been.
Under the spoiler is: Presenter - city & country - correct guesser, for those interested:
Presenter - city/country - correct guesser
Destroyer of Hope - Chicago, US - EvilManiacFromMars
EMFM -Lisbon, Portugal - Sigurd
Sigurd - Brisbane, Aus - Ichigo
Ichigo - London, UK - GeneralHankerchief
GH - Aberdeen, UK - Sigurd
Sigurd - Paris, France - Ichigo
Ichigo - Kyoto, Japan - Sigurd
Sigurd - Dubai, UAE - Louis
Louis - Vienna, Austria - rdeče.jabolko
rdeče.jabolko - Santa Cruz, Bolivia - Sigurd
Sigurd - Reykjavík, Iceland - Louis
Louis - Santiago, Chile - Sigurd
Sigurd - Moscow, Russia - Louis
Louis - Coronado, US - rdeče.jabolko
rdeče.jabolko - Greozny, Chechnya - Sigurd
Sigurd - Bergen, Norway - Louis
Louis - Shanghai, China - Sigurd
Sigurd - Honolulu, US - Kukri
Kukri - Seoul, S. Korea - Xdeathfire
Xdeathfire - Nanjing, China - SasakiKojiro
Sasaki - Minneapolis, US - Kukri
Kukri - Monrovia, Liberia - Sigurd
Sigurd - Salt Lake City, US - Kukri
Kukri - Istanbul, Turkey - Sasaki
Sasaki - Wheeling, US - Kukri
Kukri - Agra, India - Ichigo
Ichigo - Houston, US - Louis
Louis - Paris, France - Sigurd
Sigurd - Cape Canaveral, US - Kukri
Kukri - Berlin, Germany - Louis
Louis - Miami, US - Sasaki
Sasaki - Hard, Austria - Kukri
Kukri - Guantanamo, Cuba - Louis
Louis - Sun City (AZ) US - Kukri
Kukri - Tokyo, Japan - Louis
Louis - Versailles, France - Stig
Stig - Groningen, Holland - Sigurd
Sigurd - Managua, Nicaragua - Kukri
Kukri - Fleury-Mérogis, France - Louis
Louis - New York City, US - Kukri
Kukri - Baalbek, Lebanon - Stig
Stig - Port Royal, Jamaica - Sigurd
Sigurd - Sana'ah, Yemen - Louis
Louis - Marseille, France - barocca
barocca - Ipswich, Aus - Sigurd
Sigurd - Iwo Jima, Japan - Stig
Stig - Wellington, NZ - Louis
Louis - Fribourg, Switzerland - Sigurd
Sigurd - Kaunas, Lithuania - Kukri
Kukri - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Don Corleone
DonC - Dublin, Ireland - Louis
Louis - Artesina, Italy - Don C
Don C - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Stig
Stig - Capetown, South Africa - Louis
Louis - Atlanta, US - BigKingS
BKS - Wroclaw, Poland - Louis
Louis - Amritsar India - barocca
barocca - Wichita, US - Kukri
Kukri - Valencia,Spain - Sigurd
Sigurd - Paisley, UK - rdeče.jabolko
rdeče.jabolko - Tiraspol, Moldavia - Duke John
DJ - Rimini, Italy - Louis
Louis - King Khalid Military City, Saudi A. - YawningAngel
YAngel(default to Louis) - Pyongyang,North Korea - DukeJohn
DJ - Nagasaki, Japan - Louis
Louis - Sofia, Bulgaria - Sigurd
Sigurd - Boston, US - YawningAngel
YA - Norwich, UK - Cataphract Of The City
Cata- Thessaloniki, Greece - Duke John
DJ - Brasilia, Brazil - barocca
barocca - Havana, Cuba - Sigurd
Sigurd - Kopenhavn, Denmark - Duke John
DJ - Mumbai, India - Kukri
Kukri - Ulan Bator, Mongolia - barocca
barocca - Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Kukri
Kukri - Casablanca, Morocco - Louis
Louis - La Plata, Argentina - barocca
barocca - Hamilton, Canada - Louis
Louis - Mexico City, Mexico - barocca
barocca - Faisalabad, Pakistan - Myrddraal
Myrddraal - Bucharest, Romania - barocca
barocca - Abbottabad, Afghanistan - Duke John
DJ - Novosibirsk, Russia - Stig
Stig - London (zoo), UK - Louis
Louis - Prague, Czech Repub - Stig
Stig (default to The Receptionist) - Seattle, US - Louis
Louis - Tampa, US - BKS
BKS - Dubrovnik, Croatia - barocca
barocca - Arhus, Denmark - Myrddraal
Myrdd - Pretoria, S.Africa - Louis
Louis (default to Kukri) - Calgary, Canada - woad&fangs
woad&fangs(default to EvilManiacfM) - Nürnberg, Germany - Sigurd
Sigurd - Nuuk, Greenland - Louis
Louis - Tel Aviv, Israel - EvilManiacfMars
EMfM - Irkutsk, Russia - tristuskhan
tristuskhan(default to Receptionist) - Masaya, Nicaragua - rdeče.jabolko
(default to Myrddraal): - Bath, UK - currywurry
curry - Adelaide, Australia - ?
EvilManiacfM - San Jose, Costa Rica - Louis
Louis - Lyon, France - barocca
Discovery1 - Las Vegas - barocca
barocca - Belize City, Belize - Kukri
Kukri - Tallinn, Estonia - GeneralHankerchief
GH (default to Sigurd) - Bishkek, Kirgistan - Louis
GH - Capetown, S.Africa - Louis
Louis (default to barocca) - current unID'd city -
Here is an alphabetical list of our presented cities, so far:
102 cities, plus 3 'repeats' (London, Paris & Capetown)
Abbottabad, Afghanistan
Aberdeen, UK
Adelaide, AU
Agra, India
Amritsar, India
Arhus, Denmark
Artesina, Italy
Atlanta, US
Baalbek, Lebanon
Belize City, Belize
Bath, UK
Bergen, Norway
Berlin, Germany
Bishkek, Kyrgistan
Boston, US
Brasilia, Brazil
Brisbane AU
Bucharest, Romania
Calgary, Canada
Casablanca, Morocco
Cape Canaveral, US
Capetown, S. Africa (2)
Chicago US
Copenhagen, Denmark
Coronado, US
Dubai, UAE
Dublin, Ireland
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Fleury-Mérogis, France
Fribourg, Switzerland
Groningen, Holland
Grozny, Chechnya
Guantanamo, Cuba
Hamilton, Canada
Hard, Austria
Havana, Cuba
Honolulu, US
Houston, US
Ipswich, AU
Irkutsk, Russia
Istanbul, Turkey
Iwo Jima, Japan
Kaunas, Lithuania
King Khalid Mil City, Saudi A.
Kyoto, Japan
La Plata, Argentina
Las Vegas, US
Lisbon Portugal
London UK (2)
Lyon, France
Managua, Nicaragua
Marseille, France
Masaya, Nicaragua
Mexico City, Mexico
Miami, US
Minneapolis, US
Monrovia, Liberia
Moscow, Russia
Mumbai, India
Nagasaki, Japan
Nanjing, China
New York City, US
Norwich, UK
Novosibirsk, Russia
Nuernberg, Germany
Nuuk, Greenland
Paisley, UK
Paris, France (2)
Port Royal, Jamaica
Prague, Czech Repub
Pretoria, S. Africa
Pyongyang, N.Koprea
Reykjavik, Iceland
Rimini, Italy
Salt Lake City, US
Sana'ah, Yemen
San Jose, Costa Rica
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Santiago, Chile
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Seattle, US
Seoul, S. Korea
Shanghai, China
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sun City (AZ), US
Tallinn, Estonia
Tampa, US
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Tel Aviv, Israel
Thessaloniki, Greece
Tiraspol, Moldavia
Tokyo, Japan
Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Valencia, Spain
Versailles, France
Vienna, Austria
Wellington, NZ
Wheeling, US
Wichita, US
Wroclaw, Poland
LoL. no cities yet for letters:
e
j
o
q
x
y
z
edit: added alpha list
LoL. no cities yet for letters:
e
j
o
q
x
y
z
mine is one of those letters!!!!
north is up - north is always up in my cities, this game is hard enough already
it has a fake lighthouse, it does not need a lighthouse but someone thought it would be cute, built it as part of some "county club for boaties" and i think there is some sort of restaraunt thingy up there nowadays
Louis city - northern hemisphere...maybe as far north as canada...
(Vancouver has those shadow lengths)
Louis city is an odd one
that appears to be a railway curving up and down through the city center,
an exposed railawway and all the greenspace nearby, plus open air parking lots tells me a small city, possibly an administration center, (no native industires - mostly government)
c'mon Louis - you know we got nothing without some clue,
i cant even go look around "hunching" on that little
Louis VI the Fat
08-15-2007, 02:32
I'm going to be mean and not give clues. ~;p
A small city, Barocca? Hah! Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You'll have to figure the size out for yourself, I only posted a small district of this city. It is a difficult city maybe, very generic, with your usual giant mall and a Big Mac always within walking distance. http://matousmileys.free.fr/miam3.gif
Hmm, maybe a clue would be that only in the 1960's the residents of this city gained a -very limited still - right to vote for their national government. :no:
scotchedpommes
08-15-2007, 04:06
Sigurd, for the purposes of your exhaustive list there:
I would just like to add that I did openly state Adelaide when no-one else was
budging. [Got to take them where I can, natch. ~;)]
Could we have a link to the location of the list placed in the first post? [if not
the list itself.] Would be handy for those of us who occasionally get one right
after coming back and finding that the game has progressed by 5 pages a day
in our absence.
Hmm, maybe a clue would be that only in the 1960's the residents of this city gained a -very limited still - right to vote for their national government. :no:ok - you have narrowed it down to 9 states in the usa
and one possibility in particular of 60,000 sq miles
:-/
i aint even gonna fire up the map for that
:laugh4:
Good one Louis...
I think you recently posted this US city and are now betting on the fact that we would not take a second look.
Now if I could only find barocca's too.
KukriKhan, for the purposes of your exhaustive list there:
I would just like to add that I did openly state Adelaide when no-one else was
budging. [Got to take them where I can, natch. ~;)]
fixed it for ya...
KukriKhan
08-15-2007, 14:47
Heh. I had a bit of spare time yesterday, so scrolled thru the thread from the beginning to compile those lists. I'm guessing that new readers will likely read the first page, then skip to the last one to see where we are - therefore thinking that such summaries might be useful, to both them and the old-timers.
@ rdeče.jabolko: Yup. You were first to type the actual city name, and I'll put your username in there with the next list update (after the current cities are identified).
It seems we do about 6-7 cities per page (tho' fewer lately). I'll try to post updated lists about mid-page each page, for those 'keeping score'.
Louis VI the Fat has posted Washington DC (I assume this is the latest city, he put it in quotation). The white-out at the top covers half of the Mall, with the Washington Monument off to the left and the Capitol to the right. The blob of water on the left edge is the Tidal Basin, just beneath it would be the Jefferson Memorial.
Someone else can post a city, maybe in a couple of days I can come up with one.
ok, can you explain that clue about voting please Louis,
'cause it was mostly "slave" states that had their laws forcibly changed in '65 by the federal govenement to allow illiterates to vote,
so i'd love to know how/why washington DC residents have only limited rights to vote for the federal gov.
As for my city.
you want a used boat?
you go there!
ok, can you explain that clue about voting please Louis,
'cause it was mostly "slave" states that had their laws forcibly changed in '65 by the federal govenement to allow illiterates to vote,
so i'd love to know how/why washington DC residents have only limited rights to vote for the federal gov.
Since Washington DC is not a state or within a state, they do not get senators or congressmen, so they are not really represented in the federal government. Winning DC earns a candidate a small number of electoral votes (2 or 3) in the presidential election, but that's about it. One design of DC vehicle license plates says "Taxation without Representation", since DC residents have to pay federal income tax. Suckers. ~D
"Taxation without Representation", since DC residents have to pay federal income tax. Suckers. ~D
so let me get this straight...
these people (that we now call yanks) go to war with a major colonial power over the issue of Taxation Without Representation,
win that war,
and then impose Taxation Without Representation on their own people?
and they have the gall to wonder why the rest of the world thinks they're all crazy...
oh yes,
my city ... used to be a swamp.
Louis city is an odd one
that appears to be a railway curving up and down through the city center,
an exposed railawway and all the greenspace nearby, plus open air parking lots tells me a small city, possibly an administration center, (no native industires - mostly government)
on the money i was
KukriKhan
08-15-2007, 20:26
Somewhere in Florida, US, near the everglades?
Somewhere in Florida, US, near the everglades?
Definitely. Can't find a match, but the layout is familiar, especially through the Keys. Water access optimization for the most people. Plus plenty of pools. The small bridges across the water-streets are strange though.
Edit->here's the pic, to put it on the current page:
https://img252.imageshack.us/img252/324/qwertyuiopaib2.jpg
so let me get this straight...
these people (that we now call yanks) go to war with a major colonial power over the issue of Taxation Without Representation,
win that war,
and then impose Taxation Without Representation on their own people?
and they have the gall to wonder why the rest of the world thinks they're all crazy...Yup. DC was built on a swamp, I'm not sure they meant for it to be lived in full time. DC also relies heavily on federal money, since it is both historically mismanaged and the largest "company" in the city doesn't have to pay city taxes...
KukriKhan
08-15-2007, 21:39
Plus, he wrote:
e
j
o
q
x
y
z
mine is one of those letters!!!!
so I'm betting it's a city starting with e, j, or o (the others being more rare).
Looking for other 'former-swamp cities', but coming up pretty dry. :)
Louis VI the Fat
08-15-2007, 22:22
Louis city is an odd one
that appears to be a railway curving up and down through the city center,
an exposed railawway and all the greenspace nearby, plus open air parking lots tells me a small city, possibly an administration center, (no native industries - mostly government) Oooh..you were so spot on! You even had the latitude right - well 'Vancouver' is only a bit further up north. :2thumbsup:
The representation clue has been explained by our resident Virginian. I did give other clues, but they were hidden:
I'm going to be mean and not give clues.
A small city, Barocca? Hah! Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You'll have to figure the size out for yourself, I only posted a small district of this city. It is a difficult city maybe, very generic, with your usual giant mall and a Big Mac always within walking distance. My picture is named 'Georgia' (George Washington), it is the District of Columbia. 'The Mall' is that open space that's visible just at the top of my picture. The nearby Big Mac was a very indirect reference to the river Potomac. ~;)
Well done Drone. :balloon2:
Can we expect a city of yours too? Just post anything, it doesn't have to be fantastic. We should be the ones worrying about you picture, not you. :yes:
Louis VI the Fat
08-15-2007, 22:25
I still can't figure Barocca's city out. My first thought was Miami, whis is incorrect.
My thoughts are that it is wealthy suburb. They don't build this sort of suburb in Europe. Maybe Asia. Can anybody confirm it is Northern Hemisphere? Or else it could be Australia. South America and the Caribbean lack the middle classes to build this sort of property for.
My money's definately on the US. Swimming pools suggest southern states. I think I'll join the search party for Florida's coast...
Edit: bloody hell, half of America lives in a place like this. :dizzy2:
So here's an empty continent, and 300 million people all decide to not live in it but instead drain a few swamps and live in them like sardines in a can...
I checked Florida down to the Mississippi delta, but no luck. I even checked Orlando - it starts with an 'o' - but that place has got more lakes than there are stars in the sky. I'm giving up, and will let those lighthouse and used boats clues work in on me...
KukriKhan
08-15-2007, 23:55
After striking out around the Everglades, I checked up north a bit at Okefenokee Swamp area in Georgia. No joy.
Google had some articles about Perth Australia draining some swamp area for an airstrip, but I found no match. Likewise Malmi, Finland (man, THAT was a long-shot). No dice.
Stumped.
scotchedpommes
08-16-2007, 01:21
I do apologise for that earlier slip, Kukri.
As for this latest one, I'm in the same predicament, as it were. I hope I'll be able
to edit this post shortly with a positive result.
Oz might fit, I saw some places with similar layouts and I guess I can see this type of 'hood in Australia. The boat clue is strange. More boats than cars might rule out the US, unless it's a small city. Google Maps doesn't have detailed pics of small towns, unless they are near bigger cities.
Those bridges across the waterways would probably mean that unless there is open water access on both sides, sailboats are going to have trouble. I wonder if this is on a lake, instead of on open ocean.
Edit->I wonder if the angle of the land-stripes means anything. In the Keys, they are either anally placed north-south/east-west, or perpendicular to the coast (wave action problems?). I also don't see pools in the Keys, the ground probably can't be dug out to support it.
my apologies for my absence, had to lodge some forms with court and had to go spend a day with the surgeon,
never got near a PC at all.
my city is in the Mediterranean
B.
googlefu keeps getting defeated by americans and their "largest this" and "largest that", you will have to wade through a few pages of "new england USA has the largest (?)(?)(?) in the mediterranean" which is garbage, but thats what some companies DO to get hits on their sites - lousy,
so some garbage to wade through before you get to THIS CITY
NOW
look through the clues i have already given,
Clue #1
one of them is specifically mentioned, to which you can add "largest"
AS IN :- this city has the "largest" (?)(?)(?) in the med.
Clue #2
AND one is implied, (if you think about where there are X, there is usually a Y)
(X is mentioned, thus Y is implied)
and this city has the "largest" (Y) in the med.
(or so they claim, a couple of other citites claim to have the largest Y in the med too, but not millions)
- oh and there area couple of Y's in FLORIDA USA also claiming to be the largest Y in the med...)
FRIDAY'S BONUS HINT the "X" from Clue #2 is ALSO the middle (?) in Clue #1
in conclusion yanks are frootloopily mad.
B.
(edit made it easier to follow my logic...kinda...)
The Receptionist
08-17-2007, 03:46
got it
(someone else can claim it)
oddly enough is also famous in guidebooks for sky diving...
scotchedpommes
08-17-2007, 05:05
Empuriabrava, in Spain. Largest marina in the world, according to google.
Though it was the skydiving that clinched it for me. [It was the first professional
skydiving site in Europe.]
Sizable tourist resort; "residential marina" as they put it, as opposed to a city.
Population of 8,000, going up to 80,000 in summer.
drone taking the next one?
scotchedpommes
08-17-2007, 05:50
Here's one, as I came across it rather quickly:
https://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/rdecejabolko/myholidaytwin.jpg
skydiving would have been the next clue i gave,
especially after all the messed up google putting USA firmly in the middle of the med...
and to me thats looking very very dutch!
Yawning Angel
08-17-2007, 10:48
I agree with Barocca, looks Dutch, but then I've been wrong about that before.
European medieval city and if that is a church at the right of the pic, I'm guessing the picture has been rotated 90°. Other than that, a bit of water in the top right, a railway, park surrounding the old city but no idea what the city is called :laugh4:
Duke John
08-17-2007, 10:54
I wouldn't bet on it being Dutch. It could just as well be german or further east.
Can't see any characterizing city with which I could google.
Is that a bit of water in the uttermost topright?
KukriKhan
08-17-2007, 13:54
I've only ever seen so much green in the UK and Netherlands - I'd be surprised to find this town elsewhere.
Street layout seems to follow geography, ala the European style, and the greenbelt around the clay-roof area suggests the old 'central fort' surrounded by peasant farms method, so I think it's an old city, now more built-up.
The stadium looks football-ish, and the area immediately around it looks like a neighborhood devoted to ball-sports of several kinds.
Preliminary conclusion: UK/Euro city, founded before the Industrial Period, with a big reliance on sports-tourism. The splashing waters, top-left, and the street layout, suggest this is a hilly town. Zooming in, I don't see much vehicle traffic, so probably a good public transport system.
scotchedpommes
08-17-2007, 14:16
and to me thats looking very very dutch!
I agree with Barocca, looks Dutch, but then I've been wrong about that before.
European medieval city and if that is a church at the right of the pic, I'm guessing the picture has been rotated 90°. Other than that, a bit of water in the top right, a railway, park surrounding the old city but no idea what the city is called :laugh4:
I wouldn't bet on it being Dutch. It could just as well be german or further east.
Can't see any characterizing city with which I could google.
Is that a bit of water in the uttermost topright?
I've only ever seen so much green in the UK and Netherlands - I'd be surprised to find this town elsewhere.
Street layout seems to follow geography, ala the European style, and the greenbelt around the clay-roof area suggests the old 'central fort' surrounded by peasant farms method, so I think it's an old city, now more built-up.
The stadium looks football-ish, and the area immediately around it looks like a neighborhood devoted to ball-sports of several kinds.
Preliminary conclusion: UK/Euro city, founded before the Industrial Period, with a big reliance on sports-tourism. The splashing waters, top-left, and the street layout, suggest this is a hilly town. Zooming in, I don't see much vehicle traffic, so probably a good public transport system.
Being football-minded, I will say you are right to note that the town is sporting,
although the local team suffers, as its residents can largely be considered to be
glory-hunters.
One fact which I just discovered and felt obliged to mention is that bizarrely
enough, the local team does however have significant foreign support from an
unexpected area.
https://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w64/rdecejabolko/myholidaytwin.jpg
to me that stadium is more athletic / olympic in style than footy,
would appreciate a few clues to start looking
It might be a combined stadium, it looks like it has a track around it. I'm not so sure that is a club ground, the stands aren't big enough, unless this is a third division type of team. The city itself doesn't look very big. I wonder what that big white thing is (top-center).
Louis VI the Fat
08-17-2007, 19:00
Empuriabrava - I would never have found it. A touristy Mediteranean resort, not an American suburb...
Good one.
The current city looks vey German to me. An old Hanseatic town?
I'm trying to figure out that football clue...
rdeče.jabolko has named the pic holiday twin
his holiday destination of choice is an unamed remote corner of Croatian Coast,
(other are Pula, Italy - Poreč, Croatia - Brugge, Belgium)
Croatia is Soccer Mad, as is rdeče.jabolko
So i am thinking Soccer is a big point in our search
PERHAPS we are looking for a Croatian Soccer Player in a Euro club.
PERHAPS we are looking for a Croatian Soccer Player in a Euro Club where the clubs city is also a twin of a Croation Coastal Town
(i dont have time to conduct that search this weekend)
While the city posted and several Croatian Coastal towns share some similarities in architecture, what i see in rdeče.jabolko's pic above is a dutch style fortress city - where the "diamonds" were felds of fire for artillery.
(but then again maybe a dutchman built the fort for someone else?)
and i dont think north is up
scotchedpommes
08-18-2007, 03:31
Very good, barocca. I had forgotten about that post. The holiday destination in
my mind though, while not in Croatia, [Pula or Poreč being the towns of choice]
is relatively nearby.
References to this city date back to the 9th century. I think we're all aware
that this town's lifespan goes back through the ages, so consider that a pointer
if you're using wiki.
Bonus clues:
This town is linked indirectly to an infamous sporting 'event', if I can call it that.
You might have come close in your searches already.
This town is linked more closely to a classic piece of literature, written in the 19th
century.
I think a search for a Croatian football player might have been a bit evil,
but certainly good thinking. You've almost given me ideas. ~;)
am finding nothing "nearby" that matches the pic,
plenty of "city" matches from granada in carrib to uzbekistan...
afraid i am stuck
scotchedpommes
08-18-2007, 10:31
I'm not sure where you're taking that, really. More important than that are the
literary connections, and the sporting connection, particularly with olympics.
yes, following that
40 cities have held olympics
1 near Croatia - Sarajevo,
Sarajevo has 2 sister cities in Croatia (Dubrovnik and Zagreb) - neither of those are the pic,
Sarajevo has 1 sister city in Holland, and thats not the pic,
3 sisters in Germany - none of them are the pic,
a sister in Canada, who has also held an Olympics, Calgary - and thats not the pic,
(another city IN Canada has held an olympics, so we look there same time - no match)
SO, spiralling out from Croatia - cities that have held olympics
Athens - no match
Turin - no match
Sochi - no match
Barcelona - no match
Albertville - no match
Berlin - Munich - and i give up...
btw - if i follow literary references i can nail down thousands of cities and towns,
with Dubrovnik scoring highly on the list.
anyone else?
cities on wiki specifically mentioned in 9th century
Madrid, Prague, Reykjavik, Oseberg and Forli - no matches
other clues
Grenoble - no match
Amsterdam - no match
Antwerp - no match
Louis VI the Fat
08-18-2007, 18:27
Ooh, I can't find it!
I can just hear them speak German in this city, I don't know why. Austria, Switzerland?
They have left some of the old city walls intact. The moar is filled up, and is now that park-like area between the medieval and modern city.
In the middle ages this city was somewhat important, judhing by it's size. Is that a river in the top-right? My guestimate is some 200k-500k inhabitants now.
Oympics, 19th century literature, weird football supporters? I can't figure it out yet. But I'm not giving up yet, I've only just begun!
scotchedpommes
08-18-2007, 21:52
The hint of water is the Danube.
Ooh, I can't find it! - n' ya' tell tha' t' th' kids o' today n' the' won'' believe ya'
(it is not Belgrade...)
(belgrade - on the danube, 2 failed olympic bids, has won the hosting of the 2007 olympic youth festival - crazy soccer - but no match on piccy)
sorry guys, no joy on the danube clue...
and i dont have the bandwidth to trawl the danube manually scanning either...
you're on your own,
good luck and may google have mercy on your souls...
:bow:
Louis VI the Fat
08-18-2007, 22:47
I've found it. :balloon2:
Nice literary reference! :2thumbsup:
Up is not north though, it is southeast. And they do speak German in this city!!
KukriKhan
08-19-2007, 03:42
Up is not north though, it is southeast
I hate that. Why is north-disorientation necessary?
OK, I'm just whinging because I haven't found it yet, after viewing baltic soccer towns, medieval euro cities founded circa 800 A.D., venues of 'infamous sports events', ...
If this turns out to be some South American city, I shall take a rope, and... Make a hammock :laugh4:
So, I guess it's Swiss?
scotchedpommes
08-19-2007, 03:52
I hate that. Why is north-disorientation necessary?
OK, I'm just whinging because I haven't found it yet, after viewing baltic soccer towns, medieval euro cities founded circa 800 A.D., venues of 'infamous sports events', ...
If this turns out to be some South American city, I shall take a rope, and... Make a hammock :laugh4:
So, I guess it's Swiss?
It's German, at least as we perceive it. I rotated it as I expected
it to have been flown over many times before - if you use the
program as opposed to the maps.
Louis VI the Fat
08-19-2007, 04:16
It's German, at least as we perceive it. I rotated it as I expected
it to have been flown over many times before
Now I get it - when you fly from Scotland to Croatia you fly directly over this city. :idea2:
(And then see it from the angle at which you've shown it)
No reason for the suspense anymore: it is Ingolstadt. It is in Bavaria, Germany, not far from Austria. And no, I hadn't heard of it either.
New question:
https://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6333/dtroitla6.jpg
Clues:
Up is north, standard Google Map view etc.
They don't speak German in this city.
In fact, they fought quite hard to make sure that they wouldn't have to, here or elsewhere...
scotchedpommes
08-19-2007, 05:13
Alright, this one looks interesting, but I'll refrain from looking around too much at
this very moment.
To add some points about the last one: Firstly, well done on solving it, and
apologies if I made it too challenging - it wasn't my intention.
The city of Ingolstadt is where Frankenstein's monster was created, if I mind
rightly, and there are some other references mentioned in wikipedia. When using
google earth I've gone over the city a number of times; usually on the way to
Munich. And Ingolstadt's football stadium was used during the Munich olympics.
[The city is twinned with a town in Slovenia I know well. That town is a
few hours away from Poreč and Pula on the Croatian coast. This was a
distraction I wasn't expecting anyone to latch on to. Louis' idea sounds
much better.] ~;)
KukriKhan
08-19-2007, 14:04
Ingolstadt's football stadium was used during the Munich olympics
There is where I failed. When you cited "infamous sports event", Munich '72 sprang to mind - but I didn't think of looking at the various venues in smaller towns than Munich. Instead, I wasted time researching football bad-boys, and where they lived and played. Entirely out of my depth there. :laugh4: Excellent clue-age rdeče.jabolko.
Louis teases us again with fileNames. :) My search plan: start with Poland, and go east.
edit: One more "LoL" on me; what I thought was 'rough water' was instead railway. Whatta n00b is me :)
Louis VI the Fat
08-19-2007, 21:21
apologies if I made it too challenging - it wasn't my intention. We love a good challenge! :2thumbsup:
I'll give you all a picture for a clue:
https://img61.imageshack.us/img61/8774/detroit2kk5.jpg
Duke John
08-20-2007, 09:43
Image is called detroit. So the city might have something to do with car industry.
The city seems to be in a bay, close to a sea or great lake. In the second picture you can see on the right beaches and higher waves.
A roundabout, so possibly Europe. The crowded housing in the lower part makes me think more about a mediterrenean country than Eastern Europe.
Edit: another thing that I noticed is the look of the sea. Hardly any watersurface in Europe looks like that, so perhaps we must look elsewhere. If the Detroit clue is correct, possibly Asia where loads of cars are produced.
KukriKhan
08-20-2007, 13:56
I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, here, but...
I grew up in Detroit, and that image ain't it. However, I'm reminded that de troit (or d'troit) is French for strait (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait), or channel, so maybe we seek a city located in a place where the water from 2 nearby larger bodies is squeezed into a fast-moving river, as in the English Channel, the Detroit River, or Straits of Hormuz, etc.
The second part of Louis's first fileName is "la6" = lasik? Anyone know where lasik surgery originated?
Our parsimonious Parisian leads us to Europe, I suspect. The town is "dark" like eastern euro, and the street layout seems almost random. I had no luck checking Polish port cities.
edit: thinking about DJ's assessment, I won't discount Asia, either. Perhaps Korea?
KukriKhan
08-20-2007, 14:35
Ah-HA!
36-08N x 5-21W.
The 'tilted' view (I love that feature - towns look more 'real', though not so useful for searching):
https://jimcee.homestead.com/tiltGibrltr.jpg
They speak a blended language there called Llanito, and as Louis hints, have spoken a do speak a variety of other languages as well - except German.
I've deliberately not formally named the town, because I must go to the day-job now, so please: someone else put up a new assignment. If none is up by the time I return home, I'll find one. :bow:
Since Kukri did the hard work :bow:
Gibraltar
I found one to post:
https://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2792/city1uv4.jpg
Probably too easy, I'll hold off on clues for now.
Louis VI the Fat
08-20-2007, 17:58
Hmm, fairly large city, North America I think, not Asian, maybe North / East. Big river.
The location, and the remains of an old fortress at the tip of the peninsula, makes me think it is quite old, so probably northeastern indeed. I'll go check Google Maps to see if I get lucky...
The nasty thing with American cities is that unlike European ones you don't have a lot of cultural clues to go by. I could smell RJ's city being 'German', which narrowed down the number of options considerably. But 'American' still leaves an entire continent to search. I must rely on geographical features. Not a strong point of mine...
I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, here, but...
I grew up in Detroit, and that image ain't it. However, I'm reminded that de troit (or d'troit) is French for strait (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait), or channel, so maybe we seek a city located in a place where the water from 2 nearby larger bodies is squeezed into a fast-moving river, as in the English Channel, the Detroit River, or Straits of Hormuz, etc.Brilliant and spot on! Un détroit is a 'straight' indeed, as in 'le détroit de Gibraltar' - the Gibraltar straight.
(Incidentally, hence Detroit / Détroit, Michigan was named Detroit: it was founded by French fur traders at a narrow straight in the Great Lakes region. Theses traders were headed by Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
Such a cool coincidence that we should have somebody from Detroit here, to guess the meaning of my little clue! :beam: )
beg pardon drone,
but "too easy" is a matter of perspective,
we have seen cities here that the poster thought easy, but took the rest of us days to find.
i got zip on that one,
some clues please
A few hints then:
North is up, of course.
City is medium sized, population is slowly declining.
Barney Gumble was not a fan of this city's namesake.
OMG... Kukri.
That was a job well done!!!
I had a go at Louis' city but I can't a word french, so I didn't spot the clues in the file name.
It felt like a Mediterranean city, but I found nothing where I thought it would be; around greece. I even had a go up the Adriatic ocean and found a few cities that were very similar looking but not the one we were looking for.
Gibraltar; damn!!
I have looked at that place several times as we have played the game but my slow brain didn't recognise it.
Duke John
08-21-2007, 11:30
The second part of Louis's first fileName is "la6" = lasik? Anyone know where lasik surgery originated?
I don't know wether you're kidding or not, but in case others make the mistake: imageshack.net (and probably others too) add some random letters to the end of the file when uploaded. So when looking at those filenames, disregard that rubbish.
And good job on Gribaltar, Kukri. Your french is better mine, I got stuck at a misspelled "a droit" and so went for Detroit as I hoped that Louis knows how to write French :wink:
Drone's city looks like a US city.
The green water indicates a river junction.
Not too many crafts on this river, only a few with blue decks. This could be river sightseeing boats.
The shadow of the bridge gives a distinct pattern which should help find this city.
The sun is bright but not too low. This means the long shadows of the buildings on the peninsula indicates rather tall buildings. Are we looking at the business district of this city?
The sun is shining from the south-east and there is not much traffic and there are few cars parked at the parking lots. I am guessing early morning in this northern hemisphere city.
There is a park on the point of the peninsula. The trees seem barren. Is this early spring or late autumn?
The south-eastern sun indicates that this is true. Earth is tilting away from the sun and we could be far north in the US.
I am not a Simpson fan and the clue about Barney didn't help much.
But the picture gives me enough to work with.
Haha ...
Turning on the Water Bodies in the geographic features really helps when you are looking for a river junction.
Lo and behold we are looking at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the US
KukriKhan
08-21-2007, 13:26
Good spotting, Sigurd. The park-looking area at the rivers conjunction also has a French connection, it was once called Fort Duquesne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Duquesne), or Du Quesne, part of a line of fortifications built by the French in the 1750's stretching along waterways from "Lower Canada" (present-day Ontario; sometimes including Detroit) southward into Brit/US territory.
Drone wisely didn't include the brand-new football stadium and baseball park in his pic - a dead give-away.
@Duke John: I didn't know that about imageShack, thanks for the tip. To answer my own question there, LASIK originated in procedures first performed in Bogota, Columbia (http://www.westchestervision.com/historyoflasik.html), which I did visit with GoogleMap before my ah-ha moment. :)
Good spotting, Sigurd. The park-looking area at the rivers conjunction also has a French connection, it was once called Fort Duquesne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Duquesne), or Du Quesne, part of a line of fortifications built by the French in the 1750's stretching along waterways from "Lower Canada" (present-day Ontario; sometimes including Detroit) southward into Brit/US territory.
Is that the remnants we see under that highway?
I guess a new city is in order... There might be a clue somwhere :beam:
https://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7099/spiritsofthenight9thhitgk0.jpg
Louis VI the Fat
08-21-2007, 13:56
I can just smell them speaking French in Sigurd's picture...~;)
Well done Sigurd.:medievalcheers: Putting the baseball/football stadia would have been a dead giveaway, I figured the confluence would have been enough. I don't think the remnants are Fort Duquesne (although it's under there somewhere), I believe it is Fort Pitt, named after Pitt the Elder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMvIYvwob-s), built after the Brits took the point from the French.
Fun fact, apparently Pittsburgh is the third largest Croatian city. :inquisitive:
I can just smell them speaking French in Sigurd's picture...~;)
I must say... you nose is true.
getting nowhere with those clues.
a little too cryptic.
Louis VI the Fat
08-22-2007, 01:04
I am getting nowhere with those clues.I bet you are tho'...:yes:
I know you must have some ideas. Why don't you share us your thoughts? I'll share you some of mine in return...
Anyone going to try analyzing the picture and sum up the clues?
Louis VI the Fat
08-22-2007, 14:22
I'll share my some of my thoughts:
Shadows to the south - Southern Hemisphere.
This leaves Oz, South America, Africa and some scattered places elsewhere.
Not Oz, this is obvious.
The important bit: this city looks like a capital! There are attempts at monumentalism: that miniscule Champs-Élysées from the water to the stadium. A big monument at that man-made dyke in the water. A straight, much too wide boulevard on the left. A stadium that with modest means tries to have to appearance of an Olympic venue.
And it is a poor place, yet there are lots of office spaces around and I bet they are not regional Microsoft headquarters or some such, but government agencies.
Latin American capitals are old, well planned cities, with a mixture between poverty and grandeur, (usually with the poverty on the outskirts, and not smack in the centre as here). So we are looking at Africa.
An African capital, south of the equator...
Seamus Fermanagh
08-22-2007, 21:04
Driving system appears to be normal, not British.
Soccer is THE sport here -- though I though I saw clay tennis courts up near the reservoir.
Neighborhoods have the avenues overlaying "old-world" style small streets and neighborhoods.
Little of the neighborhoods or street paths suggest "round" the preference seems pretty linear.
Few/none of the houses favor interior courtyard approach.
If Louis is correct about Africa, we could be seeing "French" West Africa, "Belgian" Africa, or "German" Africa. I also agree with his assessment that the burg was (or is) the capital. Too many showpiece items for a standard town.
Louis VI the Fat is exactly correct (how he knows this stuff amazes...). :bow: I wish I could figure this stuff out, instead of going through the tedious process of elimination.
The city is an African capitol and is south of the equator, but it's a bit off the beaten path. ~;) The French did rule it for a while, and the city may be more familiar by it's French name.
Edit-> North is up.
Duke John
08-23-2007, 09:27
Antananarivo, Madagascar. Of course easy enough now with all the above hints.
It was indeed a French colony, until 1960.
The image was called spirits of the night. Nothing interesting shows up in Google Search but couple it with Madagascar and you will find that Lemurs are also called spirits of the night and these funny little creatures only live naturally on Madagascar.
Antananarivo, Madagascar. Of course easy enough now with all the above hints.
It was indeed a French colony, until 1960.
The image was called spirits of the night. Nothing interesting shows up in Google Search but couple it with Madagascar and you will find that Lemurs are also called spirits of the night and these funny little creatures only live naturally on Madagascar.
BRAVO, Bravissimo!!!
Louis, Drone and lastly Duke John.
I did indeed put the spirits of the night clue in the picture file name with the addition of 9th hit. ImageShack put another 3 random letters to it. I got The Lemur hit in Google on page 9.
Duke John named it and he is therefore next.
Duke John
08-23-2007, 10:01
Yesterday I saw an old man sitting in front of his tv in a rowhouse with a tidy frontyard and of course his curtains wide open. How differently is a typical streetview in the Netherlands from one of the city below:
https://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1616/aowgv3.jpg
I guess I will be the first to take a go at analyzing this city.
I see a great mosque as the rightmost notable structure in the picture.
Dense and chaotic traffic with light colour cars suggest a warmer climate and possible a developing country.
I must say that the overall feel is a city located in the Middle East.
If you do a 1 minute search you will find very similar looking cities in Syria.
It could be that the leftmost notable structure is a castle of some sort. I think this city was ruled by several of the great historical figures.
Louis VI the Fat
08-23-2007, 13:30
If you do a 1 minute search you will find very similar looking cities in Syria.~;p
I don't think the picture is flipped, in the bottom left corner you can see the very tip of one prong on the scale bar Google puts on (unless you can rotate that in Google, I don't know much about it). So my guess is that north is up, with the left edge and bottom edge cropped slightly. Other than that, I'm useless.
Yawning Angel
08-24-2007, 10:31
Well my initial thought was Cairo when I saw the pic, but couldn't find it there. Seemed obvious the big building to the right was a mosque and the one to the left a fortress or castle: decided mosques would be easier to find so searched around by that and found this (http://www.netuse.co.uk/clients/salawaat/mosques.htm) site which led me to the Umawi Mosque
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/Thal2602/umawi.gif
Which means the castle is Damascus Castle (http://www.oldamascus.com/castle.htm)
. . . and the city is Damascus :sweatdrop:
Google fu :2thumbsup:
and a question to work on over the weekend
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/Thal2602/cityhill.jpg
Hints later if needed
Duke John
08-24-2007, 10:44
Yawning Angel, well done! The hints was in the introduction (old man) and the image title; AOW stands in the Netherlands for our National Old Age Pensions Act. Old being the key word. Damascus is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. People have lived there as early as 8000 to 10,000 BC.
drone, in my images north is always up (unless I say otherwise of course).
Yawning Angel's city:
I know those zebra crossings.
Is that a baseball stadium? The blackish baseball dirt is also somthing I have seen before.
And the yellowy dirt/sand patches in the city? What is that all about?
I have seen all these things before in Japan...
Duke John
08-24-2007, 11:53
You've got to be kidding! Went to google maps, Japan, picked a city which I have looked at before when looking for a submission, saw a few yellow grass patches, hey that looks familiar, so it is indeed Japan. And when I was zooming out and thinking "now I just need to find the correct city" I saw that I was already looking at the right one.
So to use a quote of Sigurd:
If you do a 5 second search you will find very similar looking cities in Japan.
:tongue2:
So to use a quote of Sigurd:
If you do a 5 second search you will find very similar looking cities in Japan.
:tongue2:
:beam:
Yawning Angel
08-24-2007, 12:15
Obviously far too easy for you pros then (I did have a better one lined up until it appeared in Kukri's list of already taken cities).
No hints needed I guess . . .
Duke John
08-24-2007, 12:32
Obviously far too easy for you pros then
:smug: Nah, just plain dumb luck.
Louis VI the Fat
08-24-2007, 18:24
It is Osaka, Japan.
New question:
https://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9829/cityfy6.jpg
first things first
Sig - the "spirits of the night" clue,
the hit was on google page NINE, 180 pages of drivel to wade through.
dissapointing.
Louis,
it's a coal port, shocking EPA reg's, so most likely ex sov bloc.
housing style also hints at sov bloc too.
(edit) it is unusal for merchant ships other than tugs and trawlers to tie up two abeam,
and those two dont look like either,
so possibly a small naval facility too.
how about a clue(just not a 10 pager please)
Louis VI the Fat
08-24-2007, 22:16
it's a coal port, shocking EPA reg's, so most likely ex sov bloc.
housing style also hints at sov bloc too.
(edit) it is unusal for merchant ships other than tugs and trawlers to tie up two abeam,
and those two dont look like either,
so possibly a small naval facility too.
how about a clue(just not a 10 pager please)A clue? A CLUE!? You pretty much nailed it mate... :2thumbsup:
...I think, I haven't got a clue what your talking about. What's an 'EPA reg' ?
A Soviet naval base it is though.
first things first
Sig - the "spirits of the night" clue,
the hit was on google page NINE, 180 pages of drivel to wade through.
dissapointing.
The filename I chose for my last city was: spirits of the night 9th hit.jpg
ImageShack added some more random letters to the picture and if I am not mistaken they add 3 random letters as someone mentioned earlier in this thread. They also remove the spaces (got to remember this).
I thought 9th page would be too easy and went for 9th hit as a additional clue.
I thought 9th page would be too easy and went for 9th hit as a additional clue.aw, dont worry muchly about it,
i only grumble on the day,
next day i've forgotten all about it,
honestly if i didn't have name tags sewn in my undies i'd forget who i was...
(sorry Louis, no time to search, jamcrammin' for monday,,,,, buuuuuuusssssyyyy day)
...I think, I haven't got a clue what your talking about. What's an 'EPA reg' ?
Environmental Protection Agency Regulations
- all that coal dust with no barriers between it and the water - POLLution to the max...:blank: :daisy: :blank:
3 days no joy
time for a clue
Duke John
08-27-2007, 08:04
Googled on Russian naval yards and after looking at a few, I went back to one of the first ones and recognized the right features (it always goes like that...). Could have guessed that Louis went for a famous one: Мурманск (Murmansk), Russia.
Duke John
08-27-2007, 08:17
Not technically a city, so I would like to hear the name of this odd community:
https://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2042/zukobi6.jpg
Well... I guess we are looking at a brand new tarmac on runway no. 18.
There is a 4 engine plane at the small "terminal"? The "terminal" seems to have a roundabout at its entrance.
Is that a railroad track to the right in the picture?
Many shades of green in the picture makes me think this is a dry place where they need to water the grass to have it bright green.
Zuko in the picture path. A clue?
Odd indeed...
Duke John
08-27-2007, 10:20
Zuko is a clue, but googling for it I noticed that the reference isn't showing up. To avoid the wrath of barocca (:wink:), I'll add another hint: It is the last name of a certain "slick" personage.
Makanyane
08-27-2007, 10:39
too easy anyway - how many houses have parking for passenger jets?
Jumbolair, near Ocala. :laugh4:
Duke John
08-27-2007, 10:43
There seem to be quite a few airparks around, where rich people can taxi their private airplane from their garage to the runway. But there are few where a Boeing 707 takes off everyday, which apparently happened when John Travolta was shooting a movie and wanted to be home before dinner.
Your turn, Makanyane!
Makanyane
08-27-2007, 11:00
Your turn, Makanyane!
Ah must remember to read the rules before joining in things :embarassed:
hopefully this will work - has location picture as well as it might be a bit too hard from the zoomed in one!
It keeps with airport theme, and yes it is a city :beam:
https://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2609/airportoo7.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
international airport!
https://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5186/locationwb5.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
'city' is in there somewhere
(yell at me quickly if that's wrong sort of things to post!)
(yell at me quickly if that's wrong sort of things to post!)
I guess it is up to the poster how easy the assignment will be.
I think your choice of adding the overview is a good clue since it would have been difficult to find this city just by the picture of the actual city.
However it could probably be done. I recognized the layout of the airport from one found in Dafur and I thought; this is in Africa.
I might have spent some time in africa finding this city but the overview picture took me to a location in Erwvzdqd*
Activating the Transports tick in the Google Earth application displayed an airplane over Pdxq*
* encrypted in an old but famous encryption...
KukriKhan
08-27-2007, 12:26
Uu-wee! A crypto-puzzle within a find-it puzzle! :thumbsup:
This reminds me of the Churchill quip about Russia: "...It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma..."
There seem to be quite a few airparks around, where rich people can taxi their private airplane from their garage to the runway. But there are few where a Boeing 707 takes off everyday, which apparently happened when John Travolta was shooting a movie and wanted to be home before dinner.
I must say: Wow!!
So this Travolta aka Danny Zuko has a B707 parked in his back yard? He expanded the Graystone airport with the 36 - 18 (North-south) 2.29k runway? (it has a turf runway 27 - 9)
Damn... some people just like to travel.
Makanyane
08-27-2007, 13:08
ah, airport and overview was too much of a give away then on my effort, oops.... It would appear to be Sigurd Fafnesbane's turn.
though I suppose everyone else can solve the encryption meanwhile.....:yes:
Ok...
Its Airport time for this assignment too.
One of the big ones.
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/asleka/14L.jpg
Duke John
08-27-2007, 13:40
Imageshack is failing on me, both Makanyane's and SG's submissions are invisible to me. I can't go the imageshack website either.
Anyone else having trouble?
Imageshack is failing on me, both Makanyane's and SG's submissions are invisible to me. I can't go the imageshack website either.
Anyone else having trouble?
I reposted using photobucket. Still having problems?
Duke John
08-27-2007, 14:12
No, thanks :bow:
The image is named 14L, which is a way of telling the direction of approach of a runway. Since this is supposed to be a large airport I would think that there would be more runways.
Edit: ah, that should be 140 degrees Left, which means that there is a second parellel runway
Louis VI the Fat
08-27-2007, 22:49
Ha! I've found the place! It is qrtypetroswski in Cbtymanrd Gghxishan*
* encrypted in an old but famous encryption...
Okay so that was a lie. I haven't go the faintest clue where that airport is, nor the one before from Makanyane, that Sigurd found.
Or bluffed he found... :whip:
@Barocca: I thought you were very close to discovering that naval base, hence I posted no more clues.
Makanyane
08-27-2007, 23:04
Haha, I hear Cbtymanrd Gghxishan is nice this time of year....
no, Sigurd wasn't bluffing, the encryption is quite easy to solve - especially if you know the answer...
I am not going to give any more clues to the latest assignment.
Duke John is so close with his reasoning that I believe he has found it already.
Duke John
08-28-2007, 12:07
I don't know the answer (yet). Chicago O'hare pops as the first one with 14L but it doesn't match. Another one is the airport of Frankfurt, which is worth to look up. At the end of the runway you will see 3 airplanes in the close behind each other. Could it be that it is the same one as it moved with about the same speed as the satellite and was thus shot multiple times? Although I would think that the satellite would take larger pictures than the distance between the airplanes. Or do airplanes really take off that close behind (, Sigurd)?
I don't know the answer (yet). Chicago O'hare pops as the first one with 14L but it doesn't match. Another one is the airport of Frankfurt, which is worth to look up. At the end of the runway you will see 3 airplanes in the close behind each other. Could it be that it is the same one as it moved with about the same speed as the satellite and was thus shot multiple times? Although I would think that the satellite would take larger pictures than the distance between the airplanes. Or do airplanes really take off that close behind (, Sigurd)?
Oh you are on the right track alright... There are not many Airports with a 14L runway.
Frankfurt has not a 14L as far as I can see. They have two parallell 07 - 25 and a 18 (I can't see markings for 36 on that north-south runway and hence it is a one way street).
The close planes I believe is in traffic. They circle around the airport on few minuttes legs. They are close though.
Having a closer look the three planes are in fact identical : B747 from Lufthansa. Your theory about the satelitte taking several shots with a second in between is strengthened but at the same time weakened as you can see a smaller plane (DC-9 ?) flying parallell to Runway 18... there are not 2 other ghosts from that plane.
Louis VI the Fat
08-28-2007, 13:19
I don't understand what Sigurd are DJ are talking about. ~:mecry:
I want old churches and medieval street patterns and Hausmannised African villages so I can follow what's going on.... ~:mecry:
I did manage to crack the previous one: it is Maun in Botswana.
Yawning Angel
08-28-2007, 17:18
If Louis isn't joking (and in case it helps anyone else) Sigurd and DJ are on about runway numbers at airports. Add a zero and you get the compass bearing for the runway (in the direction of travel). If there are two parallel runways, they are normally designated Left and Right E.g. Heathrow has 2 main runwways aligned East-West named 9L and 9R (aligned along 90 or 270 degrees depending which direction you are coming from). The other common layout is the x shape allowing ttake off into wind for most wind directions, or Chicago O'Hare (used to be the busiest national airport - Heathrow was the busiest international, not sure if this is still true) which has 3 pairs of runways!
Anyway, not that they were needed, but Osaka clues were going to be 'Large Hill' and something to do with the castle at the top of the pic.
It's Kuala Lumpur International Airport, rotated 180 degrees. Is it actually pink, or is that just the satellite pic messing up the colors?
Edit-> Props to Duke John on the runway clue.
Next one:
https://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1087/city2bq7.jpg
North is up. More clues are available, assuming Louis doesn't name it immediately. :medievalcheers:
Louis VI the Fat
08-28-2007, 21:49
More clues are available, assuming Louis doesn't name it immediately. :medievalcheers:Hah! I've long progressed beyond the stage of merely identifying cities.
I now name the clues that people have in their minds but haven't even posted yet. The clue in your head is: this city is a predecessor of Kuala Lumpur. :fortune:
Makanyane
08-28-2007, 22:44
Hah! I've long progressed beyond the stage of merely identifying cities.
I now name the clues that people have in their minds but haven't even posted yet. The clue in your head is: this city is a predecessor of Kuala Lumpur. :fortune:
Not an immediate predecessor though as the relevant bit had an accident in the 16th century.
Do people actually give the answers to these or just hint knowingly? :laugh4:
think Louis should be posting the next one......
Gah! I knew it would be too easy. I actually had selected this city to post a while back, having Kuala Lumpur precede it was unintended bonus. If either of you want, you can name it, if not, feel free to give more clues.
Posting again for others as the page has turned:
https://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1087/city2bq7.jpg
Louis VI the Fat
08-28-2007, 22:57
Do people actually give the answers to these or just hint knowingly? :laugh4:Well, usually, if I have to 'work' for it, I'll give the answer and take the credit. If I get it without much sweat I'll leave it for somebody else. I might also leave a question up a bit if I got a lucky timing, like with this one, so others can have a go at it too. Why spoil this one with an answer if Drone only put it up an hour earlier?
Duke John
08-29-2007, 09:35
Sigurd, that other plane near runway 18 might not have multiple 'ghosts' as it is flying perpendicular to the direction of the satellite, which is about east-west, or vice versa, right? So it is not having the same speed as the satellite.
***
I see a very large church which probably means it is a cathedral. I also notice that there are two transepts, which according to wiki is unique/typical for a couple of English cathedrals. So we are looking at England (which was already quite obvious, but still it is good to have it confirmed).
Narrowing it down further: it is next to a river, not very large it seems, so probably not near the coast.
Not Salisbury (...) there you go, Lincoln, England!
You got it drone!! …
If you googled “Runway 14L” in quotation marks KLX (Kuala Lumpur Airport) is found on the first page.
It is as Yawning Angel said; the Runways are marked and identified in the compass direction they lay. A runway usually has two approaches, one from either side.
A runway that lies North – South is called 36 – 18. If you approach from the north, heading south towards the airport, you land on “Runway One Eight” or the Runway that parallels 180 degrees on the compass.
If the Airport has two Runways that parallel 180 degrees, they are designated with an L and R (Left and Right). Three runways make an additional 18C (One Eight Centre).
The Runways often do not lie exactly against the compass, but it is an approximate.
A Runway that lies 135 degrees (South - West) – 315 degrees (North - East) becomes Runway 14 (One four) – 32 (Three two).
Somewhere on the Airport there is a device called VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range). This is used by those planes not having GPS. It is a signal (beacon) that is sent from the airport which you can lock on to using your radio. This beacon sends information via radio waves to your plane and you can lock onto one of its signals e.g. the 180 degree signal. The VOR signal is displayed on the airplane’s compass as a thin line. If you have clearance to land on runway One Eight, you know you should approach the airport from the north.
When flying, these VOR signals will lead you to the airport. There is usually several spread around the airport with varying distances. When approaching an airport there are often set routes to this airport which navigates the plane through areas where the noise of the planes do least harm.
These routes are lined with VOR beacons.
As a pilot it is important to study the flight maps to these airports. They usually tell you which frequencies these VOR beacons have and the distance between them. You switch between them as you approach the airport and enter the airport's traffic.
If the airport is busy you circle the airport on a few minute legs. For smaller airports one of the legs can go directly over one of the runways, usually in the direction you will land. For bigger airports they can have a designated traffic route around a VOR beacon some distance from the airport. When it is your turn to land, you switch to the airport VOR and let it guide you to the runway you are going to land on. You circle the airport until the VOR line on your compass lines up with the compass direction you have chosen e.g. 180 degrees and you do you final approach where soon you will have a visual on a long gray tarmac stretching in front of you that surely must be Runway One Eight.
Duke John
08-29-2007, 10:04
Next one:
https://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7523/thankgodforwindowsfilencu7.jpg
The full filename got cut off, sorry for that.
Sigurd, that other plane near runway 18 might not have multiple 'ghosts' as it is flying perpendicular to the direction of the satellite, which is about east-west, or vice versa, right? So it is not having the same speed as the satellite.
Yes you are probably right as flying traffic that close with Jumbo jets would be totally irresponsible.
It seems that when the satellite takes its pictures it does it one square at the time in a east west direction, which would explain the multiple jumbo jets (flying in the same direction as the satellite) and the single DC-9 (flying north south).
Yawning Angel
08-29-2007, 10:54
Wat a surprise, guessed this new one from DJ on the first try, but as its only an hour or so old, I will leave it open for a while with just a small extra sliver to the pic :wink:
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/Thal2602/city.jpg
Not Salisbury (...) there you go, Lincoln, England!
Well done, DJ. For a couple of hundred years, Lincoln Cathedral was the tallest building in the world, so the link to Kuala Lumpur is there (Petronas Towers). Lincoln is pretty much a backwater today, but it used to be one of the most important cities in England. If you want to see one of the 4 remaining original Magna Carta copies, Lincoln Castle (to the left of the cathedral in the pic) still has the one issued to the county.
For the new one. I see a river confluence, lots of monuments, and I think left-side driving. Something about the fancy buildings says Asia to me. I'll need to search a bit.
A great tool is this map:
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/asleka/Right_Left_hand_driving.jpg
Red = Right hand driving
Blue = Left hand driving
want to really twist your mind?
at frankfurt there are 3 pics of the 747
but 4 pics of it's shadow
The Receptionist
08-30-2007, 04:10
i would appreciate a clue
Yawning Angel
08-30-2007, 09:21
Drone is correct about Asia, and I've emphasised the clue in my previous post. Don't really want to give any more unless DJ wants to add more clues. Hope it helps a little.
There are not that many nations in Asia that have left hand traffic.
If you look at the picture you can pretty much exclude several of them.
What you see in the picture is multicoloured roofs, Chinese inspired buildings, Lot's of traffic (left hand), tropical fauna, channels, majestic areas mingled with poor areas. And this hill/mound/mount with the golden thing on top.
perhaps there are not many asian countries that drive on the left,
but the one i think may be it is 350,000+ square kilometers and i dont have one brass clue where to even begin - well,
whats the point of even firing up googlemap?
clues are good to make this a fun game, so how about letting this moron have one??
Duke John
08-30-2007, 10:58
For a clue I will explain the first one further:
The full filename got cut off, sorry for that.
Meaning: the filename of the image is probably very long. Since nobody seems to have guessed, the fullname would be: thankgodforwindowsfilenaming.jpg. What is so special about windows filenaming?
Second hint: the country in which city is located is truely the land of freedom!
There are not that many nations in Asia that have left hand traffic.
If you look at the picture you can pretty much exclude several of them.
What you see in the picture is multicoloured roofs, Chinese inspired buildings, Lot's of traffic (left hand), tropical fauna, channels, majestic areas mingled with poor areas. And this hill/mound/mount with the golden thing on top.
Google this :beam:
Makanyane
08-30-2007, 12:32
The google clue works well :2thumbsup:
Duke John's file naming one is pretty horrible though *cringe*.
....I'm not going to give answer; that's not altruism, I just don't want to have to come up with next map!
Duke John
08-30-2007, 12:34
Duke John's file naming one is pretty horrible though *cringe*.
Longest city name...
Yawning Angel
08-30-2007, 12:36
Fair enough, since others have got there now and the google clue kind of gives it . . .
The city is Bangkok and the temple in the pic is Wat Saket
Here is the next question for you, still on the religious themed buildings tack
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/Thal2602/thisisnotaclue.jpg
Well done guys. Got busy, didn't have a chance to do any real searching. Probably won't with this new one either...
From what I see, it's a planned city, grid layout. Looks like a train station terminus in the middle. Religious domed building on the right. A small river on the right goes through, and the city is on a large lake or open water. Probably European or North American, fairly northern in latitude.
Edit-> pretty sure it's US. I don't think you get the "Traffic" option in Europe or Canada. Yet anyway. I'm sure Google will get around to it.
Louis VI the Fat
08-30-2007, 17:06
Here is the next question for you, still on the religious themed buildings tack
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/Thal2602/thisisnotaclue.jpg
https://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6654/almostst8.jpg
Gah! The city looks North American, northeast. A suburb of a fairly large city. The coastline could be the Great Lakes region. The first place I tried was Chicago. I thought I had an instant hit with Chicago, but I didn't. I'm so disappointed! It's all there: the grid patterned suburb, the railroad, the diagonal road breaking up the grid pattern to follow the coastline, down to the little park with baseball field and tennis courts near the water. :shame:
~:mecry:
Gah! The city looks North American, northeast. A suburb of a fairly large city. The coastline could be the Great Lakes region. The first place I tried was Chicago. I thought I had an instant hit with Chicago, but I didn't. I'm so disappointed! It's all there: the grid patterned suburb, the railroad, the diagonal road breaking up the grid pattern to follow the coastline, down to the little park with baseball field and tennis courts near the water. :shame:
~:mecry:
You got it right Louis.
This place is in fact only 22k north of Chicago. I guess the nearest place is called Wilmette.
The place of worship is a Bahai temple:
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/asleka/bahai.jpg
Louis VI the Fat
08-31-2007, 00:08
Oi, I don't know whether to feel proud for being so close or stupid for missing it...
Guess I should've checked the area a bit.
Anyway, here's a quadruple question whammy for you to enjoy! I'm trying out some new stuff, new aproaches. Let's see what happens...
Question 1
https://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7603/gahzi0.jpg
Google map, up north. Clues:
It's what I think of airport questions!
Question 2
https://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3074/nocluekc0.jpg
Google map, up north. No clues yet.
Question 3
Especially for Barocca, no picture. Just two clues. More clues will follow if needed...:beam:
Clues:
'Sacred ground'
'July 12th'
To what do they refer, and what place is this?
Question 4
The city is Paris. But what is this building?
https://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2827/pariswl7.jpg
The Receptionist
08-31-2007, 03:06
Fair enough, since others have got there now and the google clue kind of gives it . . .
The city is Bangkok and the temple in the pic is Wat Saket
i was not even close...
just had a llok for Q1 - jandakot and adampur are the ONLY airports that come up with the clue ghazi and runway 24
- there are NO other results on google.
Q2 - could be any city anywhere in the world around the tropic of capricorn
Q3 - google is not being kind, i got zip
Q4 - ran out of oomph....i dont care
Yawning Angel
08-31-2007, 09:41
Correct for Louis and Sigurd, thought that Bahai temple might be a different religion to look for. Didn't realise the Chicago area was so distinctive or I might have chosen one of the other ones (wiki gives some good choices). I'm not sure how well defined American cities are and its definately part of the Chicago conurbation so would've accepted either that or Wilmette. :yes:
Will have a look at Louis' questions and edit this if I come up with anything.
Q1. Like Barocca, I am struggling to come up with anything sensible for runway 24 or 06/24 with or without the "Gahzi" bit (edit: or is this "Gah Zi")? Looks like the runway is partially enclosed by a river loop or other geographic feature?
Q2. Linear settlement along 2 axis, originally a crossroads town? Built up grid streets - not Europe. Athletics track and football (US) stadia in the southern section?
Q3. Too little to go on
Q4. Started looking for churches (although thought it was unlikely to be one) to scan around Paris and find the building. Then hotels to get something to google in the area. The website of the Sorbonne Hotel gave up the goods on what was in the local area :thumbsup:
This is La Sorbonne. " Robert de Sorbon founded a college in 1253 for theology students without money. The pope approved of the idea, and it later became the University of Paris. Student life was ruled by a rigorous class schedule: dialectics, astronomy, grammar, rhetoric, and math. The students' discipline had to be strict to endure the early rising and studies stretching into the evening. The only remnants of the old college are the traces of the chapel, visible in the Sorbonne courtyard."
Question 1
https://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7603/gahzi0.jpg
Google map, up north. Clues:
It's what I think of airport questions!
The file is named Gah. :gah2: Imageshack added the "zi0". Looks like a small, rural airport, but it can't be too obscure, since Google has high res pics.. Going to be tough. Possible tree farm on the right.
Question 2
https://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3074/nocluekc0.jpg
Google map, up north. No clues yet.
No idea. Looks like the US.
Question 3
Especially for Barocca, no picture. Just two clues. More clues will follow if needed...:beam:
Clues:
'Sacred ground'
'July 12th'
To what do they refer, and what place is this?
Stade de France?
Louis VI the Fat
08-31-2007, 18:28
Q1
just had a llok for Q1 - jandakot and adampur are the ONLY airports that come up with the clue ghazi and runway 24:gah2:
Q1. Like Barocca, I am struggling to come up with anything sensible for runway 24 or 06/24 with or without the "Gahzi" bit (edit: or is this "Gah Zi")? Looks like the runway is partially enclosed by a river loop or other geographic feature?:gah2:
Looks like a small, rural airport, but it can't be too obscure, since Google has high res pics.. Going to be tough. Possible tree farm on the right.:gah2:
Q2
The US is correct.
I always like picture clues. So here are two (pretty random) zoom-ins of the town:
https://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8343/noclue2ch6.jpg
https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9453/noclue3au3.jpg
Q3
Stade de France?http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Respect/respect1.gif
Clicky. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExcybwwh00)
Q4
This is La Sorbonne.
Correct! It is on the left bank, in the Quartier Latin. A little to the south of the Notre Dame.
https://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8725/sorbonneut2.jpg
That leaves question one and two.
Lucky guess on Stade de France. Wikipedia helped some, looked at the entry for July 12. Started out looking for battles and cemeteries ("sacred ground"), but caught the '98 Finals near the end. ~D
For Q1, instead of a tree farm, that's probably a vineyard. Do we have a French theme here?
Assuming we do, a quick look at Paris, Texas, gives us a match for Q2. :2thumbsup:
For Q1, actually I'm way off. We don't have a (overly) French theme. And those probably aren't grapevines. Should have seen it, the answer was right there in front of us all the time.
Q1 - We are looking at Gayndah Airport, in Queensland, Australia. Airport designation = GAH. :laugh4:
So both Paris, TX and Stade de France were completely lucky guesses I pulled out of my :daisy:.
Someone else can post one, I don't really have any candidates at the moment. If I'm going to keep playing, I guess I need to build up a stash...
Louis VI the Fat
08-31-2007, 22:48
Q1 - We are looking at Gayndah Airport, in Queensland, Australia. Airport designation = GAH. :laugh4: Gah! :beam:
The other three questions did have a Paris theme indeed -> that was the clue for Paris, Texas, which is just an unassuming town that would be near impossible to find otherwise.
"So both Paris, TX and Stade de France were completely lucky guesses I pulled out of my :daisy: "
Ah, but you didn't. You're either being modest or you underestimate the power of (subconcious) association. Nothing lucky about it.
I expected these questions to be up for a bit longer than they did. Congrats to you and Yawning Angel.
"If I'm going to keep playing, I guess I need to build up a stash..."
I've got loads. Here's one:
https://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4029/noclueao5.jpg
Up north etc.
Looks European, shadows indicate northern hemisphere. Looks like right hand drive. No way that's in North America. Some kind of palace or fancy government building on the left, a castle/keep in the middle, and an outer perimeter wall still in place at the bottom right and bisecting the picture connecting to the castle. Tightly packed inside the perimeter wall, more modern outside.
Best I can do for now, time to go home and wind down. :medievalcheers:
ok
louis,
frustrating as i found the 4 bunger I liked the clues, they were fun and
the linking was a good device,
i dont like the no clues ones at all,
my guess would be somewhere in france, but france is a big country....
B
Louis VI the Fat
09-01-2007, 21:56
my guess would be somewhere in franceFrance? I'm afraid not. It is overseas.
KukriKhan
09-02-2007, 15:36
France? I'm afraid not. It is overseas.
Literally? Or do you mean, simply: "outside of France"?
'Overseas' removes all Europe from consideration, yes? If drone is correct (and I think he is), we also eliminate North America. Leaving Africa, Asia & Australia. All that vegetation visible suggests against Africa + drone's guess of Northern Hemisphere (with which I agree) tosses both southern continents out.
Therefore: Asia, with a very slight chance of Middle-East. One of the -stan countries seems likely.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly [insert city], and to an innumerable company of angels.
And here I was wondering about the lack of religious buildings. Nicely cropped! :bow:
KukriKhan
09-02-2007, 20:30
"...a very slight chance", quoth me.
Sometimes - I crack me up. :laugh4:
Louis VI the Fat
09-02-2007, 21:21
France? I'm afraid not. It is overseas.
Literally? Or do you mean, simply: "outside of France"?With overseas I meant 'Outremer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outremer)'. ~;)
Outremer, French (outre-mer) for "overseas", was the general name given the Crusader states established after the First Crusade: the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli and especially the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Okay, who's going to take it and post a new city?
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-02-2007, 21:43
Alright. This city was in a recent film. I'll post another shot of it if you don't get it from this one.
https://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4138/warmgc3.png
KukriKhan
09-02-2007, 22:54
I just wanted to use this opportunity to brag/complain about the heat; I took this photo of my back porch thermometer one half hour ago
https://jimcee.homestead.com/thermo108_op_800x600.jpg
You guys with rain, please send some here!
I return you now to our regular game. :bow:
The Receptionist
09-03-2007, 01:14
? ? the Simpsons Movie ? ? (the last movie released around here)
i saw one about Dehli,
saw another one about Karachi...
Big King Sanctaphrax
09-03-2007, 01:24
Tangiers?
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-03-2007, 01:30
Correct. Tangiers was featured in the recent movie The Bourne Ultimatum.
It's only "recent" depending on where you live, so that might have been a bad hint to some. Sorry.
The Receptionist
09-03-2007, 03:00
Sanctaphrax
https://img475.imageshack.us/img475/1703/bigking000hq6.jpg
edit - it is supposed to be BKS' turn,
so this one all has to be about him, doesn't it...
(think outside the square, but remain inside the box !!)
Alright I had a go at the latest...
Nothing yet.
This is my resoning so far:
US city (too many valuable properties used as parking space, grid layout, skyscrapers).
It looks either dry or Autumn/Winter
No way of knowing orientation (though, if using googlemaps North is up)
Clue: Big King Sanctaphrax.
I am thinking Big King = Burger King. Founded in Miami (not there).
Currently owned by Texas Pacific Group = Forth Worth, Texas (I though I had it there... similar but not there).
No more time to look...
KukriKhan
09-03-2007, 18:27
A bit further down the (population) food-chain, Sigurd.
This pic is of Charlotte, North Carolina, the 20th most populous city in the US. Just out of sight (at about 10 o'clock) is the huge yank-football stadium that would have given the city away. I don't get the BKS reference. I thought maybe Philadelphia (City of Brotherly Love, similar to his Kingdom of Peace & Love), but not.
I'll find another assignment soon.
edit: Here we go:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/assign2.jpg
A cross-roads city for centuries, this is its country's capital.
i thought i had seen it before,
but nope.
i am googling too many possibles to burn my limited bandwidth on searching,
another clue??
KukriKhan
09-04-2007, 02:01
i thought i had seen it before,
but nope.
i am googling too many possibles to burn my limited bandwidth on searching,
another clue??
Eastern Hemisphere. Not Africa. Not Western Europe. Not China.
A sister-city to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Receptionist
09-04-2007, 02:21
in my pic
the red marker with an A in it
that is a google map search marker...
Sanctaphrax is a fictional city in the clouds/mists
soooooo..... zoom as far out as possible in googlemap
(if we are looking for a cloud city we need be as high as we can go)
type in sanctaphrax
and hit "a" is a library "overdue" list that some clown thought might be funny to put online,
the library is at the "A" in Charlotte NC
:bow:
The Receptionist
09-04-2007, 02:32
Yerevan, Armenia???
KukriKhan
09-04-2007, 02:38
Yerevan, Armenia???
Is correct.
Your turn.
KukriKhan
09-04-2007, 02:48
Zooming out to the max and typing "Sanctaphrax" gets A-result The Rod Hall Agency, Ltd, London. 51'31N x 0'07W.
About 5k miles east of Charlotte.
Just fyi.
hmm - did you try opening a fresh instance of googlemap?
my "A" result was
City-County Government: Check-Out/Return/Overdues
310 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
(704) 336-2572
maybe googlemap is not entirely random?
as for my speelings you are all going to have to get used to it being rather terribuble while i get used to a new keyboard...
Another Member
https://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3239/7059000iz6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
The image name is 7059000iz6.jpg. 7059 is barocca's user ID. Didn't get any matching hits from a world view, so analysis...
Just from looks, the city seems new, with a grid layout. Looks like both a 4 lane road and a rail line going through it. The buildings along the road are either small business or strip mall style. Probably a suburb to a US city.
So doing a search with just North America shows... Austin, Texas. I think I've driven by that Google Maps marker, my sister used to live off of Lamar Boulevard. :inquisitive:
Next up:
https://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2269/city3vu8.jpg
When this city is found, I want a humorous post declaring success!
Edit-> North is up.
Edit2-> This city has moved in both time and space.
open a fresh Instance of IE6
focus over america
then zoom right out
type barocca
and hit "A" is austin texas!!!
(it works on every machine here at home)
time to go to work,
will look for drones later
cheers
B.
The Receptionist
09-05-2007, 04:31
open a fresh Instance of IE6
focus over america
then zoom right out
type barocca
and hit "A" is austin texas!!!
(it works on every machine here at home)i can confirm thats what i get here too
https://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2448/baroccaqe7.jpg
anyone have any clues why we are seeing different results??
Iloilo City, Philippines has moved several times over the centuries
the terrain looks a little "kansas", but i cannot see anything distinctive to give any real directions for a search
Kansas City (either of them)??
Makanyane
09-05-2007, 06:43
aargh, spent much too long looking for Drone's latest one and am not getting anywhere!
To send everyone else off on the same red herring the terrain looks a lot like it should be spain or portugal, Barcelona looks a lot like it in places - just can't find anything with that angle of grid.... :embarassed:
Pic looks dry but with trees, and with some form of plantation / orchard in bottom left corner.... didn't look American to me due to lack of space around houses.... and can't get anywhere with the clue!
KukriKhan
09-05-2007, 13:59
I'm also thinking "spanish influence", so maybe south or central america, although doing a quick tour of those capitals/big cities yielded no matches for me.
'Moving through space and time' might refer to earthquake activity.
Currently: stumped.
What city/country plans its streets on a general grid, with apartment buildings on the outside of the block surrounding a green mini-park-like area in the middle?
It's a small city, so it might be tough to find. The residents are famous for their wit.
Reposting since on a new page.
https://img62.imageshack.us/img62/2269/city3vu8.jpg
Edit->The area this city is in was once ruled by a despot, but in a good way.
The residents are famous for their wit
auckland
melbourne
montreal
rishon lezion (israel also has terain that suits - but much of israel is NOT googlemapped)
armagh
west kirby
...
and an undisclosed location in Boston known as Cheers...
What city/country plans its streets on a general grid, with apartment buildings on the outside of the block surrounding a green mini-park-like area in the middle?
some of those green patches are orchards - that is weird
still stumped
B.
KukriKhan
09-06-2007, 14:52
I'm gonna need to use a "life-line" and ask drone to eliminate half the choices of continents, just to narrow the search more:
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
(Central and)South America
If you're willing, please strike-thru 3 of those choices.
I see red dirt ...
that should narrow it down to either Africa or South America.
My initial feel is Central America... The sun favours northern hemisphere.
I'm gonna need to use a "life-line" and ask drone to eliminate half the choices of continents, just to narrow the search more:
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
North America
(Central and)South America
If you're willing, please strike-thru 3 of those choices.
I'll give you 4.
Clue rehash:
When this city is found, I want a humorous post declaring success!
North is up.
This city has moved in both time and space.
It's a small city, so it might be tough to find. The residents are famous for their wit.
The area this city is in was once ruled by a despot, but in a good way.
Europe or Asia
hmmm... not America then.
It is the strong grid layout that throwing me off here. Where in Asia or Europe do you find this?
KukriKhan
09-06-2007, 17:17
So Europe, Asia... Eurasia (thanks for the assist :bow:).
So I thought Khazakhstan, home to Borat's fictional village, which was apparently actually filmed in a small town in Romania.
L00king, but no matches yet. Surprisingly, Romania has very few hi-res cities mapped by Google, yet Khazakhstan has several.
... cannot help you guys,
with so little to go on and bandwidth costing me so much i cannot even begin to look.
have fun
B. :-/
Two days and no one has guessed yet? What the hellas going on? This is madness!
OK, this one was harder than I thought. I ran out of ways to give clues without being too obvious. My bad. :stwshame:
Makanyane
09-07-2007, 00:37
grrrr... grumble grumble, I can't think of anything laconic to say about this so will leave to someone else....
The Receptionist
09-07-2007, 01:54
... ran out of ways to give clues without being too obvious....maybe it's time for some obvious clues?
Lysander13
09-07-2007, 04:27
Two days and no one has guessed yet? What the hellas going on? This is madness!
OK, this one was harder than I thought. I ran out of ways to give clues without being too obvious. My bad. :stwshame:
Ahh for christsakes....The clues are obvious enough...For the love of Hades he's telling you in the above qoute for all intents and purposes......:laugh4:
This is not madness...This is SPARTA!!!
KukriKhan
09-07-2007, 05:14
Ya know what I like?
When you've put in some time on a project, and a solution just evades you? And a johnny-come-lately just wanders in and sneers the answer at you, like spitting?
Yup, it's my favorite thing.
"hellas" = good clue drone. It nagged me in the back of my mind all throughout the ball-game. "Gonna look at Greece, as soon as Manning wraps this up", I thought. LoL
Spartans are funny?
The Receptionist
09-07-2007, 05:52
When a Spartan complained to his mother that his sword was too short,
she replied, "It will be long enough when you take a step forward." :bow:
Spartans are funny?
Laconic wit, from Lacedaemon/Laconia. Makanyane had it with
grrrr... grumble grumble, I can't think of anything laconic to say about this so will leave to someone else....
The city pictured is the new Sparta, created after the Greek Independence near the ruins of the old city. It serves as the capitol of the Laconia province. Back in Byzantine days, the title for the Peloponnese peninsula was called the Despotate of Morea, based at Mystras, a few kilos to the west.
Like I said, it was tougher than I planned. The "city" has less than 18K population, and there just isn't much to it today. Since it was a planned city, the layout doesn't look Greek or even European, although I can't imagine the courtyards anywhere other than the Med. I soon realized that I couldn't find any meaningful clues without giving the whole thing away. I'll try to line up a bunch before posting next time.
@KukriKhan - Miserable game, wasn't it? Colts look on, Saints can be good, but they look like they could use another couple of weeks of practice.
The Receptionist
09-07-2007, 05:54
After an Athenian accused Spartans of being ignorant, a Spartan agreed:
"What you say is true. We have learned none of your evil ways." :bow:
Two days and no one has guessed yet? What the hellas going on? This is madness!
:laugh4: :laugh4:
Good clue drone... I was unfortunately sleeping during the last phase of this. (you gave this clue at 01:03 in the morning and it was solved before I awoke)
Makanyane
09-07-2007, 13:52
I think that must be me then as no-one else laid claim to the last answer.
https://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6871/googlemapnd6.jpg (https://imageshack.us)
that is probably much too easy, but I think an easy one is due...
Yawning Angel
09-07-2007, 14:39
Yay, an easy one for my Friday afternoon!! I see:
- lots of green
- a motte and bailey castle
- river
- railway
- a university campus
- a big stadium
Got to be the UK
Hint below if needed
The city is a RWC 2007 venue
Lysander13
09-07-2007, 17:25
Ya know what I like?
When you've put in some time on a project, and a solution just evades you? And a johnny-come-lately just wanders in and sneers the answer at you, like spitting?
Yup, it's my favorite thing.
"hellas" = good clue drone. It nagged me in the back of my mind all throughout the ball-game. "Gonna look at Greece, as soon as Manning wraps this up", I thought. LoL
Spartans are funny?
This Johnny-come-lately humbly begs your pardon and anyone else's for that matter. I did not mean for my post to be inferred by the readers as being sneering in any respect or much less was i spitting an answer at anyone. My post was only meant in jest or tongue in cheek if you will. In retrospect it was just probably bad form on my part to attempt a "tongue in cheek" post in a thread where i have never posted before; not to mention i was also enjoying the Colts/Saints game as well ( Thank the Gods it's Football Season!!) and perhaps my Heineken induced giddiness reflected as outright obnoxiousness in my post. For that......my apologies friend.
Lysander, I don't think Kukri's comment was directed at you. I believe he just expressed his frustration for having missed the obvious clue.
But anyway:
This Johnny-come-lately humbly begs your pardon and anyone else's for that matter. I did not mean for my post to be inferred by the readers as being sneering in any respect or much less was i spitting an answer at anyone. My post was only meant in jest or tongue in cheek if you will. In retrospect it was just probably bad form on my part to attempt a "tongue in cheek" post in a thread where i have never posted before; not to mention i was also enjoying the Colts/Saints game as well ( Thank the Gods it's Football Season!!) and perhaps my Heineken induced giddiness reflected as outright obnoxiousness in my post. For that......my apologies friend.
Spoken as a true gentleman :bow: Such friendly and nice patrons like you, who apologise because they think they might have offended somebody, make my job very easy.
You are very welcome in this thread and in the Gameroom my friend. Enjoy and have fun :2thumbsup:
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-07-2007, 22:43
Yay, an easy one for my Friday afternoon!! I see:
- lots of green
- a motte and bailey castle
- river
- railway
- a university campus
- a big stadium
Got to be the UK
Hint below if needed
The city is a RWC 2007 venue
Based on your clues, I'm going to go with Cardiff.
Makanyane
09-07-2007, 23:42
told you it would be too easy... :embarassed:
next please!
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-08-2007, 01:41
https://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8260/upme3.png
KukriKhan
09-08-2007, 03:25
I have this silly (and often annoying) rule that I apply only to myself:
"Don't let the sun go down before you fix what you broke today."
It's 1925 hours, and the sun will be down soon.
Lysander13, I apologize for my rudeness. :bow: Andres, our estemmed Moderator here, has the right of it: I was grousing because I was too thick to pick up on drone's excellent clues. Heck, I'd reviewed 4 continents before it finally dawned on me: Greece.
In no way did I mean to impune your intentions or words. You're just the kind of bright, sensitive fella we like around here to play with. Please don't let my insensitivity run you off; I usually play well with others (Mrs. Murphey said so, in kindergarten).
To sum up: Sorry, man. I was just griping.
Oh, and: did anyone else think New Orleans forgot to show up in the 2nd quarter? Maybe they had some other gig to attend?
Lysander13
09-08-2007, 05:46
@ Andres
Thank you for the friendly welcome.
@ KukriKhan
No need for apologies friend. Hell, i figured i was the one who came across rather rude.
As for the Saints: Yea, they definately forgot to come back out for the 2nd half of that game. Maybe they forgot to come back out because they had to make sure they got good seats back in Baton Rouge for tomorrow night's LSU vs VTech game. :dizzy2:
So which is the pic everyone is working on now? Post 1227?
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-08-2007, 14:34
So which is the pic everyone is working on now? Post 1227?
I hope so, I looked at the past posts to make sure I didn't screw up with the order again.
:wall:
on the weekends when my boys are asleep and my chores are all done i look forward to coming here,
looking at the pic, reading the clues and spending an hour or so trying to solve the riddle
a pic with no clues...
:-/ lets see whats on the telly...
Marshal Murat
09-09-2007, 02:21
Well, my thoughts
1. Ethiopia/Somalia/North Africa
2. Iran/ -stan
3. Central America
4. Argentinia
Well, I'm sure that the southwestern US is eliminated. Not enough build-up for a major U.S. city
The structures in the north-east seem to be more mud-rick than the surrounding buildings. The lack of infrastructure and build-up indicates Ethiopian or Somalia However, the browner shade of color lends me to think it is in the -stan region of Asia. Very arid region.
Water source, on a drying river, flowing from west to east. So something on the east coast of a sea or lake. Inland of the coastline
Unknown structure at the bottom, above the river, makes me think it is also a city with a university.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-09-2007, 04:57
This city is known for it's religion, though the largest attraction may be the people who call it home.
I'll give you another hint: Africa/Eastern Europe/Asia
Marshal Murat
09-09-2007, 15:38
Well, now that we have some hints...
1. Religions
a. Hindu
b. Muslim
2. Place
a. India (mud bricks)
b. Middle East (mud brick and religion, along with landscape)
I think that Eastern Europe is a red-herring, since the landscape doesn't indicate much in was of 'Eastern European' to me. The housing doesn't look European either. So it's probably Greece, or previous Yugoslavia. Overall, however, I would think that with the hints, it might be A on both.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-09-2007, 18:08
The name of this city even has something to do with the local religion.
Marshal Murat
09-10-2007, 03:53
Well, now I just need to find either
Buddha-ville
Muslimabad
or
Hindustan
The Receptionist
09-10-2007, 07:12
which one of these is not applicable??
Abrahamic
Bábism
Bahá'í
Christianity
Gnosticism
Islam
Judaism
Sabians
Samaritanism
Indian
Ajivika
Ayyavazhi
Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
Panth
Sikhism
Iranic
Manichaeism
Mazdakism
Yazdânism
Zoroastrianism
Taoic
Caodaism
Chondogyo
Confucianism
Shinto
Taoism
Yiguandao
Atenism
Mithraism
Orphism
African Traditional
European
Near Eastern
Native American
Pacific
Neopagan
Reconstructionist Pagan
Syncretic and eclectic Pagan
Left-Hand Path
African diasporic
Non-revealed
Syncretic
Entheogen
Cargo cults
New religious movements
Abrahmic-oriented NRMs
Christian-oriented NRMs
Islam-rooted NRMs
Judaism-oriented NRMs
NRMs with roots in Indian relgions
Buddhist-oriented NRMs
Hindu-oriented NRMs
Monotheistic NRMs
Indigenous NRMs
Asian-oriented NRMs
Chinese-oriented NRMs
Filipino-oriented NRMs
Indonesian-oriented NRMs
Japanese-rooted NRMs
Korean-oriented NRMs
Vietnamese-oriented NRMs
Native American-oriented NRMs
Western esoteric NRMs
https://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8260/upme3.png
The most notable in this picture is the River/Firth ...
Either it is a dried up river or we are looking at some serious tide action.
This location is in the northern hemisphere and it looks at first view Middle Eastern.
woad&fangs
09-11-2007, 00:25
I swear I've seen that before when I was skimming through google maps.:wall:
Yawning Angel
09-11-2007, 12:39
I got no idea where to start looking really . . . other than looks Middle-eastern and that might be a ruined castle/fort in the top left quadrant.
Been 3 days now, more clues needed I think (at least for this dummy anyway :help: )
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-11-2007, 23:19
Look at major religions to start. :laugh4:
Trust me, this is much easier than it looks. Really. By the way, the bottom left corner might give a small hint as to the landscape.
Louis VI the Fat
09-11-2007, 23:45
http://magicplanet.org/catalog/images/tibet_lhasa_01.jpg
Potala Palace, in Lhasa, Tibet. If I am not mistaken, it is that mountain in the upper left corner of the picture.
New question:
https://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6254/islandgd7.jpg
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-12-2007, 00:39
Very good, Louis. ~:) I actually expected that to be easier. Maybe I have to post more mainstream cities, though when I posted some German cities they were guessed almost immediately.
scotchedpommes
09-12-2007, 04:00
Maybe I have to post more mainstream cities, though when I posted some German cities they were guessed almost immediately.
Think mainstream, outside Germany. ~;) It's going to be one of the first ports of call
when you post a city that looks vaguely European. At least in my book.
****...****!!!!
I did look in Tibet.. but that **** town didn't show up in the Google application. The search help returned no results... you have to have a pretty low altitude before it suddenly pops out in the mountains...
I am too old for this %&@¤
[edit]: Is damn a official swearword?
Lysander13
09-12-2007, 13:51
DAMN...DAMN!!!!
I did look in Tibet.. but that damn town didn't show up in the Google application. The search help returned no results... you have to have a pretty low altitude before it suddenly pops out in the mountains...
Same here...After the clues were given ( which were pretty good BTW ) i tried to have a look at Lhasa, Tibet but Google Earth apparantly didn't feel very obliging. I also searched for a satellite type image of Lhasa and couldn't find one. Obviously i didn't look hard enough. :wall:
Bah!!....On to the next one then.....
Louis VI the Fat
09-12-2007, 14:31
I did look in Tibet.. but that damn town didn't show up in the Google application. The search help returned no results... you have to have a pretty low altitude before it suddenly pops out in the mountains...
i tried to have a look at Lhasa, Tibet but Google Earth apparantly didn't feel very obliging. I also searched for a satellite type image of Lhasa and couldn't find one. You need to know exactly where Lhasa is in the Himalayas if you want to find it through Google Maps. Maybe Google is hiding Tibet so as not to offend the Chinese.
Naturally, I didn't have to rely on Google, because I recognised it as Lhasa immediately. :book:
[/arrogance and lies]
No guesses yet for my city? The clue is in the city name: Island. My city is located on an island.
If you use some of the established techniques in this thread for finding cities I don't think it is very hard to guess. You can really narrow down the list of options quite easily.
No guesses yet for my city? The clue is in the city name: Island. My city is located on an island.
If you use some of the established techniques in this thread for finding cities I don't think it is very hard to
guess. You can really narrow down the list of options quite easily.
Oh.. it was the first one I tried.
One of my class mates and dear friends comes from this city.
She is a catholic all though that is a minority in that nation.
She has raven black hair, not uncommon for her people and a nice tan. She now lives in Australia and her name is Tanya.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-12-2007, 23:49
I should explain some of my clues.
Lhasa the traditional home to the Dalai Lama's of Tibet (until the Chinese invaded), and is home to the Potala Palace as well as many other symbols of Buddhism. The people are both progressive and traditional, and Lhasa, like many major European and Asian cities, also has a diverse mixture of modernism and traditionalism. Finally, Lhasa means, literally, Place of the Gods.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
09-13-2007, 00:00
Think mainstream, outside Germany. ~;) It's going to be one of the first ports of call
when you post a city that looks vaguely European. At least in my book.
Yes, but any larger cities I've posted in North America, Europe, East Asia are usually snapped up fairly quickly, whereas others take forever and frustrate people. I think this was probably the only well balanced question I've come up with, though I liked the Tanjiers one...~:)
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