oh dear, I seem to have killed thread, I suppose it was a bit of a dum-ass picture to post!
I'll try and think of another clue to post tomorrow to
foster some good will..
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oh dear, I seem to have killed thread, I suppose it was a bit of a dum-ass picture to post!
I'll try and think of another clue to post tomorrow to
foster some good will..
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The picture is fine! :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Makanyane
We are just stuck. But I for one love a challenge. Where is everybody else, btw?
I can only narrow it down to the UK, and very probably England / the area of Norman control. I tried googling for 'Norman keep' and 'Norman museum', and I looked at a few more cities. But to no avail!
I assume that hill was some sort of Norman fort? Good catch, Myrddaal!
Viking Norman, or Normandy post-1066 Norman? Anybody here into English history, or with some more thoughts?
Just so everyone knows, Mak was in the chat and I mentioned this photo. She emphasised ...you could almost say it's to do with Norman Architecture
Almost...
What does that mean?
Other thing to note, the shadow is straight edged, so the raised bit has vertical edges, and seems to rise quite tall, as tall if not taller than a building. However, it's got a grass top, and a very strange shape, along with a short stubby building on top. Very strange.
I went through the largest towns listed here that don't have city status, and got nothing. I agree, it definitely looks like a newer UK town. Lots of commercial and/or office buildings. The big parking area on the left might be next to a train station or a hypermart, but probably just city center parking.
I haven't figured out what the green mound is/was supposed to be. If it's historical, why would there be a modern building on top of it?
Faux-Norman? A museum? Something built just prior to 1066?Quote:
Originally Posted by Makanyane
the bad news:
a. clue was actually in post 1261 - so you're not getting another big clue today...
b. despite describing it quite well no-one has read the satellite pic correctly yet...
(you also seem to be having a little problem with word's)
the good news:
drone was onto something...
Hmm, a cousin of mine was called Norman Forster, so that clue kind of leapt out at me.
https://img408.imageshack.us/img408/...sfaberanr9.jpg
Wierd...
https://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7895/ipsyr6.jpg
ah good, the clues were getting a bit painful (even to me) :laugh4:
was quite fascinated by what everyone seemed to think a three storey high mound of earth was doing in the middle of a town centre!
Pic 4 here shows it best - it was (& possibly still is) the youngest building to ever get grade 1 listed status (a form of preservation order) in Britain.
anyway, next please Myrddraal....
If this one prooves too hard I'll give lots of clues:
https://img250.imageshack.us/img250/1943/fjrk2.jpg
Norman Foster. :wall:
Good one! Had me fooled, and I love feeling like an idiot. Bah, I even looked at this Foster project, and checked Sainsbury to see if it was correct.
Then I googled for 'results not including the word Foster', because he was cluttering the results for 'Norman / museum, mound, etc' so much. ~:mecry:
Myrddraal, is there a way to post a larger version of your city? When I enlarge it in Photoshop the image gets too fuzzy. And it is too small now to make out any details.
My first thought is Spain, Italy. What is that mound in the top left?
Just popping in to make my 200th post in this thread... :2thumbsup:
My thoughts on the recent city:
Is it built along an ancient road? Does the mound house a castle or a stronghold of some sort? It is the best place for a defensive structure in this area.
Too much white structures for my liking (then again we are too high to say for sure).
The clustering in the middle speaks more of antiquity than slum (directly opposite from the mound/mountain is supporting this).
Are we looking at a Medieval city?
What about the long linear things on the fields in the lower right corner? Looks like covers for green plants to me and might be a hint at certain vegetables being planted there.
Sigurd seems to be on to something, it looks like an important road goes through between a castle and an old village.
https://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7379/fjax1.png
If you want a zoomed in shot of any area I'd rather give that than a worded clue.
European. Smallish. Old. Can't really pick out any distinguishing structures, aside from the rows in the bottom right. Those look like either greenhouses or chickenhouses. Not sure what the mound/castle thing is, it also looks like a raised mound of some kind (doesn't look like the shadows are inside like a normal castle would have). A park or monument in the middle, maybe next to a church of some kind (the white blob). Maybe some modern industry or development in near the row buildings. Zoomed out to far to really tell much, maybe Google doesn't have high-res for this area.
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But where? It's a rather hilly landscape, and it looks Southern European to me, but other than that?
What I don't understand is that to me the old city looks of Roman origin, but that the location chosen for a settlement looks more medieval. I'm quite curious to find out what this place is.
More detailed shots:
I think you have 2 and 3 reversed. ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Picture name = FJ + imageshack letters. Not sure if that means anything.
I agree, it looks too dry for northern Europe or the British Isles. White roofs would indicate a hot climate, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Edit->Looking at the newer pics, area #2 might still be a church, but I wouldn't think a parking lot and bus station would be right next to it. There is a building in the old town section that looks like a church (cross shape, with a dome). Maybe area #2 is a newer local government complex. The mound area #1 looks more like a fancy villa with walls, rather than a castle.
I concur with drone and Louis, most likely southern euro (too sqiggly for N.Am, not green enough for UK, Holland or Germany, while too green for Scand.).
The mound, though, could be formerly-covered, now-uncovered ex-Mayan/Aztec, so Central Am for a distant 2nd choice.
If this image is of the entire town, the population is small. Yet Myrddraal's city is hi-rez on GoogleMap, so must be of some importance.
I don't see any HVAC devices on rooftops, so I infer a moderate climate.
The park-like green areas are landscaped similarly to Spanish and Italian areas around gov't centers and/or museums, etc.
Just thinking aloud here, in no particular order, while I decide where, on the globe, to start. I think I'll tour the western Med, then hop over to Central Am, just to eliminate those more obvious choices.
If this is in Australia, Asia, or Africa, I'll eat Louis's hat! :beam:
Like I said, I'd much rather give pictorial clues. If you want more zoomed in shots of any area, or even if you want photos of any area (and I can find them) I'll post them. But don't ask if you don't need them :smile:
PS, fj doesn't stand for anything, it's just the two random letter that happened to be under my index fingers when I typed something for the name.
Looks a lot like malta. But I don't see that section on malta.
wait
Found it!
malta it is. The smaller island
So Victoria, aka Rabat, on Gozo, Malta. Nice spot Sasaki! I still haven't figured out what the long rowed structure is. A greenhouse, or other agricultural complex?
Myrddraal is afk for a couple days, so unable to confirm. Do you have an assignment handy for us Sasaki?
https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/...skyohiosl7.jpg
Picture contains something worthy of the Guinness book of world records...you have to know what you're looking for though...
First guess is western US. A mountain town, with a small baseball field and a golf course. Can't really tell much at the moment.
Is that a coal mine at 3 o'clock? I like the us mountain states too (mainly Colorado), but what about that water in the southwest?
Hmmm.
Don't think that's water, if you look at the different color tint it's squared, I think that's just a low-res block of a mountain. I think there is one in the northeast as well.
Don't know what the big black mass is. The two little pools near it might be a water treatment plant.
Casablanca.
Not casablanca.
Closer shots:
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I'm clueless. The world's biggest copper mine? Bauxite? Iron?
It looks Southwestern American. But, the shades would suggest it is far more southern than that.
~:confused:
The cities in this region spell out or at least have some of the letters from their name written on the hills around them. You can see the first letter.
At the bottom of the of the first more detailed picture you can see the tallest freestanding masonry structure in the world.
The city is the 9th largest of it's region.
Anaconda, Montana. That clue about the chimmney sort of gives it away.
Yup.