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Tough. It looks like a very large city. Modern, affluent. The baseball stadiums mean it's not Europe. The street pattern looks Asian, not American.
Korea or Japan I'd say. I tried Seoul and Tokyo, but can't find it. My God, Tokyo is huge, what a city. I compared it at the same zoom level with Paris. We're Asterix' village, a Celtic village, by comparison...~:eek:
The future is Asian.
Do I treat those as guesses, or mere conversation?
Hmmm, 16 hours later, I guess that was a dumb question. A guess is a guess:
Tokyo is correct. In that image, moving clock-wise, at 1 o'clock is the Tokyo Metro Gym (used in the 1964 Olympics); at 2: the Nat'l Olympic Stadium; at 3: Meiji Jingu Stadium (Baseball); and at 9: Meiji Shrine. The whole complex is about 3 km west of the Imperial Palace. (edit: nice insight on asian street patterns, btw)
Louis is certainly correct: Tokyo is Hu-u-uge. :bow:
So it is Tokyo after all...
I was maybe too busy being impressed to find those stadiums. I thought it might be Tokyo, but hadn't found it yet. It was somewhere in between a guess and conversation, I was not very clear. :embarassed:
Let's see what you all make of this:
https://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4250/jardinsi9.jpg
Versailles mon ami
So I guess the fountains form the "smile"?
http://static3.bareka.com/photos/med...versailles.jpg
Were those grounds built with an aerial view in mind, or was that accidental?
Versailles is correct, Stig.
It's all deliberate, it's smiling back at the Gods after we outdid them on earth. :balloon2:Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
This'll be a tough one (I hope)
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My first impression, with that sun-baked look, is a Mediterranean locale.
My bet is Groningen, Holland...
Not too difficult when you leave Aerodata International Surveys in plain sight.
They are responsible for the maps in the Netherlands.
With some exceptions, that type of city can only be found in two countries. Judging by the neatness and compactes, it's the northern one of the two.
I found the place, it starts with a 'G', but I'll let others try for it.
Edit: Argh! Why do people keep beating me to it!? I need to learn to type faster!
Aye Sigurd got it, it's the city I live in
you snooze you loose as they say...
here is a nut:
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It looks like it's somewhere in Oz. I can't make out any distinguishing features, it looks like a plain large-city suburb. In effect, like 98% of Australia.
Let me try a lucky guess: Brisbane.
Not so lucky M8...Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
I will help you along here and say: you are on the wrong continent.
First thought that struck me was europe (probably eastern, maybe greece) but I'm really not sure..
Fishing for clues eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by sapi
Alright... this city was destroyed by an earthquake.
+not OzQuote:
this city was destroyed by an earthquake.
Hmmm.
San Francisco. No
Concepcion, Chile. No
Lisbon, Uh uh.
Pompei, No.
L00king. :)
Messina. Negative.
Bam, Iran. ix-nay.
Calabria, Italy. No.
Quetta, Pakistan. No
Ah-HAH!
Suffering several earthquakes in the 19th & 20th centuries, most recently in 1972, Dec. 22, Managua, Nicaragua: earthquake devastated city center, leaving up to 6,000 dead (10,000 by some reports). They haven't rebuilt the city center, instead spreading out, which is why the image looks so "suburban", as noted by Louis.
That was a 'nut', Sigurd F.... nice selection. :bow:
Correct!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Damn, you people are getting good.
Slo-o-owly learning from the Masters. :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Next up, I was intrigued by the pattern here:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/25.jpg
I cut out more than usual from the image (the white block at bottom), as the source may have given it away too soon.
Hint: location is not in Asia, Australia or Africa.
In case you are wondering: yes, we are still playing.
My only thought is that it is a military headquarters or some such. Maybe a university. If I had to guess I'd say Germany, the UK, that direction.
But I wouldn't even know what to call that....thing. Googling "oddly shaped set of buildings" probably wouldn't yield any results. And the earth is too big to GoogleMap for it hoping to get lucky.
We are pwnd. ~:mecry:
Ahhh, more perspective, then. We'll zoom out about 20K feet:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/33.JPG
Ah, now it looks distinctly French....:idea2:
It's not a military installation, it's a prison. :wall: :furious3:
The prison is the prison de Fleury-Mérogis. It's in l'Essonne, a department to the south of Paris.
Fleury-Mérogis is correct! I found it when backing out of your Versailles pick. To be honest, I didn't know what it was either - I had to click the place-name and google it to find out. Fascinating bit of architecture from the air.
Take it away Louis VI the Fat!
It's laid out like a university or college campus in the middle of a large city (a 6-lane street below & 4-lane boulevard at top, both well-travelled by individual autos). Busses or large trucks in the interior. The larger round building looks like a planetarium or theater, the 2 smaller round buildings = ?.
The green-topped buildings suggest copper roofing, found in the eastern US & Europe. Looks like afternoon sun, the shadows leaning eastward - yet the sun isn't particularly bright, ruling out west-coast US and most of Oz.
Are we looking at Europe or eastern US?
Let me add to Kukri's observations,
It seems the traffic is right oriented ruling out the british isles, Oz/NewZ and Japan.
there is a truck turning into the campus north in the picture... Its windshield is turned towards campus. Yep right hand side for traffic.
Two tennis courts to the north east... some ventilation systems on the roofs of the buildings East, South-East.
This screams East coast US to me.
I tried out some of the big uni names in east US without exact matches: Princeton, Yale, Harvard, MIT & Georgetown.
Off to look at eastern Canadian uni's, on a side-bet.
hah... Louis tricked us with the sun... it is actually a midday sun... and the picture is tilted eastward making North actually West - North West. The reason the sun is so weak is because it is autumn. If you look closely some of the vegitation has coulours other than green. This also explains the low midday sun.
I also noticed that a substantial number of the cars in those two streets have a yellowy colour.
Anyone but Kukri making a bet?
Looking at campues in Quebec & Ontario didn't pan out.
You know what's beginning to bug me? Parking. There's none for over 22 buildings, some of which look to be at least 4 stories high, enough room to accomodate about 4,000 people at any given time. But how do they get there or leave? Those busses/trucks?
Maybe Louis is doing a pay-back, showing a prison complex, not a uni. Just speculating.
Still, I'll be extremely surprised if this anywhere but eastern US.
Still l00king. :)
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GAH! I feel like it's right under my nose, but can't see it; I must beg a tiny clue, please.
More clues?
My clues are that you (Kukri) and Sigurd are mostly spot-on. Up is more or less West - North West in the picture. Many cars in those two streets have a yellowy colour. Few parking spaces suggest other modes of transport are common in this place...
I think that Sigurd may have found it, but is holding back...
I sure hope not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis
Just knowing we were "warm", not "cold" helped narrow down the search, and the 'yellow-colored cars' (aka taxicabs) tipped:
New York City, NY, US, home to Columbia University, whose campus is pictured. The larger round building is Low Memorial Library.
Whew!
I looked in NYC I never found it. Guess I didn't look close enough:sweatdrop:Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
I figured that it was in the Northeastern US, because I looked at at Washington DC and it had the same colored roofs.
Kukri got it. I can't believe I missed that though. :angry:
You might be right :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
I guess it's Kukri's turn
Me too, mate. On my first fly-by over NYC I looked at NYU, saw no match, and moved on to 'Joy-sey'; forgot all about Columbia, tucked in the geo-heart of Manhatten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ichigo
We've always waited for the image-poster to declare "correct", so I'll stick to that procedure... besides, that will give me more time to find a "Sigurd-stumper"; no easy task :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Columbia University in Manhattan, NY is correct.
Ah, but you had me stomped on the hexagonial french prison.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
I had never seen that building before and no english web pages had any info on it... I don't know how to spell hexagonial in french anyway.
LoL :beam: Me either; Louis could say it's spelt: 'hexi-sexi-goni-woni', and I couldn't argue.Quote:
I don't know how to spell hexagonial in french anyway.
Today's selection:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/17.JPG
side note: I notice the thread loads more and more slowly over time, presumably because of the image data; after we hit @300 posts, maybe we should start a new/continuing thread. Sasaki K?
Maybe the one who guesses this one correctly can simply start a new thread?
My first thought is that it is Mediterranean, but not in Europe. Middle East, North Africa?
*searches*
As 'hexagone'. But le Hexagone is a common nickname for France herself. You could've searched forever when googling for both 'France' and 'hexagone'...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
http://a1692.g.akamai.net/f/1692/204....thumbnail.jpg
Kukri's picture just screams Middle East... and without actually taking a peek in google earth I could suggest Jerusalem, Israel...
But I believe Kukri has made this a little more difficult than that.
I think Mexico for some reason. Though I doubt it is.
I would say Jeruzalem as well, but when I look at Google Earth I can't see Kukri's pic.
It's Mediterranean I think tho
Thread load time hasn't changed for me. If it was affected by number of pics the babe thread would take ~3 hours to load.
After your pic has been guessed you can replace it with a link.
Use spoil tags, means you only have to load 1 at the time
I believe it pre-fetches the images in the thread even if they are in spoil tags. I don't think it does that for the other pages in the thread though.
This city was already established and thriving when Jerusalem was still a pre-Israelite, Jebusite watering-hole.
Doesn't seem to be damascus.
Is it damascus?
There are only 20 or so cities older than jerusalem and damascus seems closest, though I can't find that spot.
Fine guess, Damascus, but incorrect. You're in the neighborhood, though.
The only other city I see that looks remotely like it is adana turkey but i can't find that building there either. It's also not that much older than israel.
umm, is it gaziantep?
Sorry, not Gaziantep, although your instinct of looking for a sort of obscure, ancient city with significant, multi-layered, multi-cultural ruins, is spot-on.
Damascus was "warmer", geographically.
Baghdad? Just a wild guess.
It's Baalbek ~:cheers:
Baalbek (in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon) is correct. Congrats Stig, and take it away!! :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d...guesscity2.jpg
I won't be seeing it's tough because you'll get it quickly anyway :furious3:
So, a toe-tipped island, with mostly industrial-looking structures, and an oil tanker making its way into port.
The water is quite blue, and the ship approaches from the west-north-west, so not an off-shore refinery along the Texas-Louisiana coast of US. More likely North Sea or Persian Gulf, or somewhere Pacific.
All speculation, so far. Hmm, only the southern end of the island is built-up, the northern part hosting only a single road.
I thought that was ice. But I don't know what island that would be.
Ice, hmmmm.
Sorry guys. I backed off playing after the 3rd trojan attempted to get hold of my computer today. All my ports (1 - 1059) are fully "stealthed", and I have no problems anywhere else, until I fire up GoogleEarth; then they pour in, within 15 minutes.
So I'll need to sit this one out, thanks. gl to all.
It is not ice what you see...
It is the sun's reflection on a major sea. You will find similar effects in the carribean.
I would think this is located around Venezuela, but when looking I can't find it.
Yeah... the sea really looks like the carribean, but I would think these effects are found in other "sunny" waters.
I guess the major ship up north is a container boat/major cruise ship and the smaller one looks like an oil tanker. But I can't see an oil installation on the island/peninsula nor a container dock.
heheh, I'll give you a hint (tho it might not directly help you):
It's in the Caribean, which is full of islands
this little black duck is going to need another clue...
i found 3 that have the right shape, but none have the habitation...
I tried the Netherlands Antilles, of the coast of Venezuela, but alas...
The Caribean is a big place to search manually. I wouldn't mind a clue.
There are two games that are named after this place
No need for clues Stig...
the place is Port Royal just outside Kingston, Jamaica
[edit]:heh... I guess you gave some clues after all...
I had to use a little brainpower on this one... good choice...
Seeing the container ship moving towards this peninsula had me fooled a little as I thought that it was sailing towards a port south of the island.
Then the road on the island caught me eye... it led right out to nowhere. It had to be a peninsula.
Maybe the ship was sailing from a port?
I then thought of the tanker... it too sailed towards the island/peninsula...
Where do they have a container dock and a refinery/oil depot next to eachother?... Off course... in Kingston Jamica.
Heh, correct yes. I tried to make it look like an island with nothing to the north of it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
i had the feeling it was pirate related,Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
and the second game was not called port royal for the australian version, it was called tortuga (which was the first place i went looking last night before bed),
this morning i got out my tortuga game map of the carribean, intending to trawl (google-earth) through all the ports listed and check them,
(on an impulse i checked the forum for more clues...)
and sadly i was too slow getting up (it's 5am here)
B.
Let's see if you can find this one:Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
I'll start with trying a lucky guess: Cairo?
NopeQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Hunh. Louis went with Middle-east. Gotta respect his instincts.
My first impression was western Europe - someplace with a well-organized mass-transit system (those numerous vehicles are bigger than autos - and parking is planned for).
The traffic looks better organized, and drivers seem to comply with road rules - more so than I've seen in Asia or Middle East.
The domed building and neighboring courtyard suggest a government or uni function (or, at a stretch, religious).
Just organizing my thoughts, so far.
I reformatted my computer 2 weeks ago, and thought I'd gotten all the MS updates. After the Trojan attacks, I double-checked, and needed 77 updates (!). Got them now, and can hopefully scour GoogleEarth safely again. Wish me luck. :beam:
that view is from 50 metres ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
how about some decent clues?
(dont want to sound grumpy, but i dont have endless amounts of free time and i am really enjoying this game)
I need a hint I've been looking over Western Europe and haven't seen anything. Though the gloomy look of the picture reminds me of a German city I looked at though the architecture doesn't seem to match up.
i feel your pain,
i only had a couple of hours so quick scans through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and across into communist (and former communist) europe (through east berlin), down through Spain and Portugal and as far away as Latin America (spanish influence) ...
turned up nix, nada, zip
(trying to pick from an image that low level is not going to be easy)
kom i gang odin , gir oss en brekke...
Does anyone think we're looking at left-hand drivers here, making it (with 'gloomy') the UK? In the top-right corner, we have vehicles merging, bearing left I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ichigo
Maybe this is one of the thousand or so Brit traffic circle thingees. Tho' I still can't place the dome/circular statue-base.
Wild guess: Trafalger Square, London, UK?
It's not in Europe.
If you're right about that left-hand driving, then I assume it's in the Indian subcontinent, or possibly in a former African colony.
I guess I was barking up the wrong tree with the "lefty" guess. Checking the non-island former colonies that still drive left, I get no match.
Those busses are tourist busses, I think, moving visitors to and from some attraction, or photo op. Any guesses on the tree-covered complex just north of the round thing?
Looking at the picture a bit more, I don't think they drive left. I could be wrong about this though.
I think these buses are white vans, not tourist buses. Third world countries don't have a lot of private car ownership, and little to none public transport. Vans that seat six to eight people are a common mode of transport.
I totally suck at recognising buildings or structures from directly above, I've got absolutely no clue whatsoever about that structure in the center of the picture. A fountain? A monument of some sort? Anybody got a clue?
We should be able to find it ourselves without Sigurd's aid. It looks like a huge city.
Edit: But I'm not really one to spend forty-five minutes aimlessly checking google maps, hoping to get lucky. Either I have a hunch and check it out, or I'll wait for an 'aha-moment'.
Alright... the clues:
- This city is situated at a high altitude in its country.
- It is quite old and has an walled old city.
- It has been used as a capital by more than one nation.