i doubt if there were any clues that would have led me to iwo jima,
ww2 certainly didnt help me any...
... HELL, googlemap cannot even FIND iwo jima....
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i doubt if there were any clues that would have led me to iwo jima,
ww2 certainly didnt help me any...
... HELL, googlemap cannot even FIND iwo jima....
B.
Yeah it's quite impossible to find using GoogleEarth's search form.
Sorry I missed that entry (Iwo Jima); it would have interesting. Stupid day-job. :)
Congrats, Stig on the correct answer. Your task?
Side question: are most players using the GoogleEarth client (with the globe) or the GoogleEarth website to both pick and find their selections?
I'm using the globe
Here it is:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
No idea. Looks like a tourist spot with all the beaches possible, but I'm not really sure.
I haven't been able to locate Stig's [insert proper word*] yet, but this is what I am looking for:
I think this is a small place. It is too far down to the actual city to see particulars.
Ichigo mentioned the beaches. There is one large smack in the middle next to the air strip.
A tiny air strip in the middle of a town speaks of not too much air traffic.
Somehow I get the feeling we are seeing a town on an island somewhere.
I can't see there are any trains in this picture.
This town is most likely on the west coast of this island.
Football fields all over... is that a round cricket ground up north-west in the picture?
I looked at the channel islands but with no luck.
*task, quiz, assignment (what do we call this?)
Quite clearly it's a game with cities. Stig's city, Nogster's city, and so on.
[Using the globe here, Kukri.]
okeydokey...Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče.jabolko
This is where my english comes to short and I want to implement my Scandinavian ways of doing things.
I wouldn't have called it Stig's city as that would make a reference to his current place of residence.
I would have called it: Stig's oppgave [en: task], but that doesn't sound right with the english translation.
I've found it! :cheerleader:
It looked like it was part of a big city. Western. Probably on an island. Not touristic - where are the big hotels next to the beach? That they should've put that airfield there means the hinterland is hilly, mountainous. The outdoor swimming pool, beach, means somewhere reasonable warm at least. It doesn't look Caribean, nor Mediterranean.
So possibly Pacific? Oz has got plenty of flat land everywhere. So I tried NZ: it's Wellington.
[ I'm using Google Maps: http://maps.google.(fr/co.uk/com) ]
Your eagle eyes strikes again...Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Yeah.. Stig you had me stomped on this one.
Now that I can examine the city in detail (just got a work around on the google maps at work), I see that I was correct with the cricket field... but was totally wrong on my asumptions of this being a small island.
Nice work Stig... making us[me] belive it was open seas to the east.
Aye, the little sneak is good at that, isn't he? This is the second time he tricked us like this. The Jamaica picture earlier in the thread had me fooled too. :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
heheheh, your go Louis
I have some hope that this one will prove to be difficult:
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Raise and shine... it is morning on the northeren hemisphere.
Autumn colours in the fauna surrounding a beautiful town...
It looks Alpish.. Central Europe in the mountains is my first guess.
Time for some clues maybe:
-Note that north is in the bottom-left direction.
-My picture is from the autumn. I checked a current spring picture, and the place looks very green and sunny now.
-People in this place have funny names, like Marie-Thérèsa Röpke, Thierry Zimmerman, Liselotte Godard-Rüdisülli
-Sigurd is always right.
Two rivers still flowing in autumn (though green with the yaer's algae build-up). Huge shadow to the East-Southeast, suggesting a mountain. Quite large buildings, suggesting a lodge or hotel/resort area. No snow (yet). French-blended names. Somewhere where they ski and have numbered, anonymous bank accounts, I think.
The bridge to the island looks like the way to the Technological Museum in.... Munich???
I am thinking Swizterland/German/ Austria border area - but the version I have won't let me get into some of the river valley's to look.
Its like the map isn't allowed to focus into that area for me.
Redleg and Don C are playing. :jumping:
It's not Munich. But my place is only a few hundred kilometers away.
That's right. Nobody's allowed to zoom in into the Switzerland/Austria/Germany border area: Liechtenstein is located there. https://img228.imageshack.us/img228/...karoundfj2.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
It's classified. No-go. Verboten. Our Liechtenstein overlords won't have people poking around in this sensitive area.
Clues:
-my place is located exactly on the Rösti rift. This is the cultural and political divide between two civilisations, hence those peculiar names (which, come to think of it, perhaps don't sound peculiar to English ears at all, at least no more than other foreign names).
You'll find such oddities here as calvinistic, French-speaking blond girls named Heidi. :2thumbsup:
- there is only one river in the picture, not two.
- What's on top in my picture, is southeasth, so it will be bottom right when searching with Google earth / Google maps.
Man... we were tricked :furious3: ...
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...ane_near_F.jpg
It is of course Fribourg, Switzerland.
I was looking in the Autumn patches of the google maps of Switzerland when in reality they are displayed as sunny spring pictures.
Fribourg / Freiburg is correct.
The place is known for it's bilingualism, it's a mixed German / French Swiss town. Of Switzerland's eleven universities, it has the only bilingual one. The German Swiss eat Rösti, it's their national dish. The French Swiss, of course, eat proper food.
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My next clue was their local mode of transport. There aren't many of these around, so if you're a good Googler, you could've narrowed the list of options down drastically.
https://img87.imageshack.us/img87/94...culairexe5.jpg
Well, Siggy baby, all you.
By the way, none of my Google-Earth pictures come out as sharp as the ones you're displaying, at least not from similar elevations (3000ft ~1000m). Did you guys all buy the supported version?
Wow, what a huge difference in lighting between those 2 images. Louis led me to the right region, but on a wild-goose chase after that. I'm surprised to see such a difference between the client and .com versions.
Congrats on a good "stumper".. :bow:
A culture question: In the US southwest, Spanish and English "bleed" into each other, such that, over time, "Spanglish" is heard. Is there similar bleeding of French and German words in Switzerland, or do they remain distinct languages?
Wow - the bottom picture there looks like a painting, and the top one like someone spilled paint on said picture :grin2:
I have a couple of computers spread throughout the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
This one has the 3.0 Beta...
I have the newest 4.1 on my work computer. All free versions.
As to the new city... it could be a nut. Use your eagle eyes and analytical skills.
A tough one. First impressions: a "grid" street layout, suggesting the N. American mid-west, along with a multi-lane road, also suggesting a major highway, ala US & Canada. Just west of that major road, is that water, or a green belt?
And of course, the enigma: what is that polygonal white structure, and what is the white strip to its south that so starkly casts the shadows of the trees and buildings?
If we figure out what the polygon with a domed center is, I think we'll have our location.
Personally, I'm gonna need a tiny clue more, before I randomly scour 4,000 square miles of midwestern landscape.
Anyone else with further insights?
edit to add: lots of trees; no palms, so not us southwest. Those look like pine, maple or elm, and well-established, so an "older" US or Canadian town. Lots of park-like looking spaces, but not large, and certainly not sports-oriented (baseball, soccer, etc). I'm beginning to think we see a governmental seat, like a state capital, or large city City Hall complex.
So: OK, I'll make a first 'blindfolded dart throw' and ask:
Is it Ottawa, Ontario, Canada?
Sorry .. noQuote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Clues:
- Look at the building compared to the compass. What type of building is usually aligned like that?
- This is the second largest city in its nation.
- I sang in that white building in 1997 (yeah, I once was a first tenor).
The entrance to the white building appears to be on the south... are observatories south-oriented?
"Second largest city in its nation" = not US or Canada. I was on the wrong continent. Europe, then, I guess.
I never knew Norwegians sang :laugh4: (j/k old buddy; I'm sure you were a songbird 10 years ago). I recall you've mentioned some places you've been before - I wish I'd paid more attention to those posts, now. :)
I can't imagine you sang in a mosque, so that's out. More likely a church (but the building looks nothing like one, and there's no parking apparent). Maybe an arts center or conservatory. Hmm. L00king.