I'm just going for a wild guess: Saint Petersburg, Russia?
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I'm just going for a wild guess: Saint Petersburg, Russia?
I used to sing in a choir with this songbird[The silver lady (Sissel Kyrkjebø)].Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
If you take a trip to the Album thread in the Frontroom, there is a picture of me there and a few faces from this choir.
closer than Kukri... but noQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Man, looking for the 2nd largest national city isn't easy, but I think I've had an ah-HA! moment:
Saint Michael the Archangel Church, Kaunas, Lithuania?
Wow man!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
You win the prize.
Heh, thanks. That one took plodding detective work, working my way out from Norway. Luckily, after Scandanavia, I started north, and went south and west from Finland, then Latvia, then Lithuania. Clicking the city names gives a little blurb about the city - usually mentioning if it's the 2nd or 3rd largest, etc. That's how I found it.
This one is an out-of-the-way town, so I normally wouldn't present it, but the surrounding geography intrigued me (the road pattern looks like one of my grandson's sketches). If you zoom in on the unusal feature, then google what you think you see, you could get this one quickly.
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I guess that one was too easy, and the fellas didn't want to embarrass me. :) Thanks, Guys.
Right; let's try another, less obscure:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/56.JPG
Kaunas and I missed it? Ugh, it just gets worse.
Just to make the obvious even clearer, I will push my nose in here and pretend that no one else sees it.:laugh4:................................ :shame:
I see a baseball stadium. And judging by all the on and off ramps, I would think that it is a highway to the east. My guess, because I am a little lazy, would be in one of the MLB cities.:shame:
*backs way out of the room*
RM3
Some American city, with a baseball stadium, possibly a basketball stadium (NBA?). And is that some sort of light rail or monorail?
I tried some mid-sized American cities, but no luck yet...
Also, I am still determined to get that previous question. Unfortunately, googling 'giant rabbitdoll-shaped object that looks like it fell out of a plane' yielded no results.
You had me really stomped on your first location Kukri...
This last city of yours looks at first sight like an american city with the great mall to the west, the baseball stadium just south of the mall, The Baseball/Ice hockey dome north and the highway next to the baseball stadium and the mall.
The sun come from two directions... southwest in the north part of the picture and southeast in the south part of the picture.
The mall, Dome and some of the taller buildings have their shadows on the northeast side, while the baseball stadium and some of the taller buildings in the south-west icluding the tall building almost in the center of the picture have shadows on the northwest side.
Also, Kukri has enabled the National geographic feature at one point, but I can't figure out why only that is showing. Anyone know a place in the world where this is true?
I don't know if we see the downtown area of this city. The Suburbs that takes up much real estate in this picture is evidence of a more out of the city view.
No strong grid sense to the building layout makes a weaker case to a us based city.
The baseball stadium has no roofing suggesting a warmer climate and that the domed stadium is a basketball stadium.
Sigurd's preliminary conclusions are all correct, with one exception: the dome is used for entertainment, not sport (tho' that is an understandable assumption). The image focuses on a neighborhood about 3 miles SE of this city's formal downtown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd
The mall sighted, is the largest in the region.
Those interested in persuing the 1st image: try googling a shorter version of Louis's search-string (stong hint: the color of the unusual object).
Don't let the roof fool you. The Astros (Houston) and the Devil Rays (Tampa) play in domes, the Red Sox (Boston) and the Cubs (Chicago) don't. I'm afraid I 'struck out' by searching all the baseball stadiums, but it was fun.
I also searched the largest malls in the US. No luck. There's only 1 Canadian baseball team, and that ain't it, that's not Toronto (3 miles Southeast of Downtown puts you into Lake Ontario.
This is fun though...
Is that an active baseball park? I can't find a single one, and I think I hit all 30, where homeplate faces southeast like the one in your picture does (the N on your compass really does mean that the picture is facing north to south, roughly, correct?)
Yeah north-orientation is always important in this little game. In my pix, N is always 'UP'.
Baseball is important in this town; the region has produced many Major League Baseball players... but it has no MLB team of its own.
Okay, I went through and checked the top 15 malls by square footage in the country. Where they didn't appear in an MLB city, I zoomed in. Nope.
I then got thinking you were being tricky and i started checking caribean capitals like San Juan and Santo Domingo. No dice. I thought maybe Havana (good luck finding a shopping mall there) but no. So now I'm onto minor league cities like Tulsa, OK and Durham NC.
Any more hints for a newbie to this game like me?
Check again. You're so hot, your hair's on fire. :)
Well, if it's a place I already mentioned, I missed it. If I've mentioned similar, but not quite right cities, well, I'm not going to be able to get it. I'm plum out of ideas. I'm going to review the places I've specifically mentioned one last time, but I don't think I got it....
Holy crap!!! There it is!!! It IS San Juan, Puerto Rico!!! What is that entertainment oval, Kukri?
Wow, this game is fun, but addictive! You go nuts because you never know whether you've actually missed what you were looking for at the place you were checking!!
Never mind, I figured out how to turn the building ID on. It's the Coliseo Jose M. Agrelot.
edit: he got it. :)
LoL:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:
Yup, that's the blessing and the curse of this game.
Congrats, Don Corleone, San Juan Puerto Rico is correct!
Our euro players have gotten used to baseball diamond = US, so I thought I'd throw them a curve-ball.
Your turn, Don. :bow:
Okay, well, that was a good one, Kukri. And before I head to bed, I promise to come up with one equally good. Let's see what I can come up with....
Okay, I think I've got it. Many places can claim to be the birthplace of civilization. It all depends on 'which' civilization you mean. This one certainly has as much right to be included in the list of 'birthplace' cities as any other.
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The reason why I chose this particular place was that I was struck by the size of that black box. Look at the scale I'm on, then try to estimate how large it is. And no, it's not a road.
OK, what do we 'know'? It was 10:10 p.m. when Don captured this image, he uses Snagit to take desktop screenshots, and he came up with the image mere minutes after it was his turn - suggesting the image is someplace he has visited personally. :)
We have a stadium with a rectangular pitch (=either football or futbol), with an impotant complex just south of it. Two large-ish park-like areas nearby, one (west) with a large pond/small lake. Very little vegetation otherwise.
Blowing up the image & zooming in, I note the 'black box' Don refers to, but can't make out enough detail to i-d, so I'll just go with his "not a road" hint. A wall, or hedgerow, or other border, I guess.
The image looks about 15 square blocks of semi-organized buildings (about 4 sq miles, I think), with 1 major and a few minor 'circle intersections'.
Prelim: looks asian. Large (I mean la-a-a-arge) city. Significant overcast/smog = industrial, with a tiny nod to parks & playing fields. Not Japanese, I think; rather China, or N.Korea.
Welcome in, Don Corleone. :bow:
*coughs
Don Corleone, did you leave 'xian china' in the search box for a reason? :laugh4:
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by sapi
I think we should give the Don another shot...
Thanks for sharing this though.
I know I have seen stuff in magazines about this city (terracotta warriors etc), but never knew the extent of this fortress in the middle of the city (or should we say; the walled old city?).
I love the little blue and white dots that reveal photos taken on location. Impressive walls.
I also love the measurement feature in google earth...
The walls are (ca.) 13 979.33 x 8 758.24 feet or 4 215.66 x 2 669.52 meters
one last thing: Wow.. it has a moat!!
yeah, give him another go :yes:
Don't have google earth installed, but have to ask: was that the imperial precint, and what height was that taken from?
OOps. :embarassed: Sorry about that guys. Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag on that one. I'll try to come up with another one fairly shortly.
@Sapi: It's the original walls and moat of the old city. I didn't get a chance to look around too much, the only sight seeing I did in the city itself was at night, but the drum tower and bell tower are huge and very impressive. The walls are truly impressive, considering they're about 2200 years old.
The terracotta men and the underground palace are actually about 20 minutes outside the city. And smoggy/gritty doesn't begin to describe it. Most people wear gauze masks, and I wished I had one.
So let's try this again. This time with all identifying text boxes hidden or edited.
Hints:
-This is a capital city.
-It has hosted an Olympics.
-My choice of centering the view on the bisecting river is geographically, culturally and historically accurate.
-The city is relatively famous worldwide as a tourist/holiday destination.
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mmmm I'd say London
Hmmm, nope. Good guess though. But the Thames is a good deal wider than the river pictured, and it's hard to find a portion of it that runs so straightly.