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Aha, it's Sana'ah!
Louis is obviously correct
may we see your task Louis? (before i have to leave for work)
cheers
B.
Tradition says we should wait for confirmation, but I'll squeeze it in.
A question in a classic format for a change, to keep things interesting. Just a plain city in a large perspective:
https://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3318/bkspt6.jpg
If any of you Google Earth Gods find it really quickly, would you mind passing up on the opportunity to answer it straight away, so we can generate more interest in the game? Thanks.
mmmm certainly looks like an old city, not something too recently build. Have no clue tho
RIo de Janeiro?
Resembles Pacman with an underbite, and a wild eyebrow hair :laugh4: (the harbour slips look like teeth).
Note to Sasaki Kojiro: apparently my slow-loading problem was on my end. After gathering all the MS updates, I'm loading normally again. Sorry for the distraction. :bow:
It is correct!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
As to Louis' city...
It is most likely a Mediterranean city with its narrow streets and red tiled roofs.
Not many villas in the picture, mostly apartment buildings with backyards.
The ocean is to the west and there are piers protecting it from bad seas.
Also if you notice, the downtown harbour is filled with small boats suggesting that this city is a holiday city.
One more thing I noticed is the train station. The trains seem to enter from the north suggesting that this city is far south in its nation.
Yep, I would suggest looking in the mediterranean and its southeren cities placed with the ocean to the west.
No, it's not Rio de Janeiro.
Clues:
Those red spots interspersed with grey lines are houses and streets respectively. The blue stuff on the left is water.
~;p
BTW, I liked your last question a lot, Sigurd. It was fiendishly difficult but in just the right way.
I found a better one just after I posted San'a... I will use it at my next chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Now were is that damn french city? :beam:
I know I've seen this one before, but of course the exact location isn't coming
to mind. It's beginning to niggle away.
For the lazy:
https://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3318/bkspt6.jpg
Come on, lads. It's do-able! Kukri already knows what it is, Sigurd, if he doesn't already, would too if he would put the effort in.
Let me know if you want some clues...
Well, they do have a football (/ soccer) team of some renown...Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče
unexpectedly it's Marseille
B.
and i just realised i am going to work in 2 minutes and i cannot log in here from there
so please forgive my posting this now
https://img470.imageshack.us/img470/...ortcityvw2.jpg
and your first clue is in the name of the file
B.
Marseille is correct. The city faces westwards, even though the Mediterranean is to the south. I think this may have caused some confusion. :sweatdrop:
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Port city...hmm. I tried Portland, Oregon, but no match. I think it is somewhere in the US, the vegetation suggests somewhere inland, mid-continent, quite a bit down south. (not necessarily in the 'South').
What's that white building? A shopping mall? Do any of the Americans here know what it is? Do the Americans think it is American?
Or is it Australian?
The stream of expletives just uttered can not be repeated here, I assure you.
:shame:
I am thinking its looking a lot like a port city along the Gulf of Mexico. But it could be one of the inland port cities which there are several now in the United States.
I think barocca's clue (portcityvw2) tells much. The streets are grid-based, suggesting the "new world" - north america or oz. vw's are built in US, Canada & Oz. We gotta find a city with a river, with a VW factory, with some kind of playing field(s) across the river (definately not baseball diamonds). Cricket?
Oz, I think.
I am just going to post what I see... I shall look for it after work...
This city has an Australian feel to it.
Not much tiles in Australia.. and they use other materials on their roofs. That gives a multi coloured look...
Just take the reds.. there are many variations. Also light blue tiles?
The dirt seems reddish, also an Australian trait.
What really got my attention was the circular fields you see north. If I am not mistaken those are cricket fields.
There is also one to the west hidden under the map tool. Circular fields with a small stripe of worn/treated patch in the middle is definitely cricket fields. Australia has plently.
[edit]: heh.. I didn't see your post there Kukri... you're on the ball.
no VW's are made there, as far as i know,
well maybe the odd "rebirthing"...
that is the CBD you are looking at, and it USED to be a port city,
till some gallah(smart-alec-idiot) made a mistake...
(CARRY the 2, not subtract it...)
B.
you think that place has multicoloured roofing??
take a look at a spot just a couple of miles down the road from here...
https://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9466/0rc2ip8.jpg
talk about multicultural...
everything from 255,255,255 through to 0,0,0...
B.
Looks like Aus to me.
The colour of the river screamed 'Brisbane' to me, but we still are a port city and so that wouldn't make sense with respect to Barocca's comments...
hmm.
This port city is actually some way inland.
(we will call it "Port X")
"Port X' was cut off from the ocean after some engineers thought blowing out a natural dam would allow larger ships access to the port.
The explosion was too large, the gap created was excessive and caused the water level to drop so much that even flat bottom barges struggled to get past newly created shallows and to the port.
Other Newly created shallow further inland were for many years actually a very hand ford providing good safe access to "Port X" from the northern districts for early settlers. (They built a bridge there in 1878)
(that bridge is Not in the Map)
https://img470.imageshack.us/img470/...ortcityvw2.jpg
EDIT
(i just realised you can see on the map above where the river used to run, and where it runs nows)
cheers
B.
Settlers from northern districts indicate to me that this in in victoria...
hmmm....
the one hidden under the map tool is the first of FOUR adjacent fields that stretch to the west.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
To Their North (not more than 500 metres) are TWO more...
and to the North of the fields just over the river, again some 500 Metres, is yet another ... (though it is not as green)
and to the east - in line with the unusal "star" shaped building are TWO MORE... (though they are more practice fields)
AND - immediately South of those fields, is ONE more...
then we travel ANOTHER 500 meters south, and we have TWO more...
from there travel some 750 meters east and find THREE more...
you get the idea - it is Australian
B.
and just to be safe, so you know i'm not leading you astray,
at low level you can see a few more...
Is your city on the Murray river?
well its almost certainly Victoria, they all seem to be AFL fields.
Richmond is my guess (only because i did an assignment on it)
I was sooo wishing it was Wagga Wagga, just so I could type the name. :laugh4:
And now I have.
One other thing I notice is that the river might runs eastward, Suggesting the ocean lies to the east... but this could be a trick as a river could run right back west outside the picture.
hehe... found it...
It is Ipswich south west of Brisbane, Queensland.
sapi was right on track when suggesting the river looking like the Brisbane river with its green/brown colour.
I studied at Queensland University of Technology and I walked next to this river every day the time I spent there. (18 mths)
I guess the people down under are still sleeping...
Should I wait?
....
nah..
This is your next assignment (not a city):
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
you truly are a god of google :bow:
Ipswich it is,
Queenslands Oldest provincial city was founded in 1827 and originally called Limestone. In 1842 Ipwich looked set to become Queenlands capital, but lost out to Brisbane after seperation from New South Wales.
Queenslands first secondary (high) school was opened in Ipswich in 1863.
Ipswich began it's history with coal mining in the 1870's and at one time had over 60 mines producing half of Queensland's coal output.
Had history been just a little kinder Brisbane would be nothing more than a subsidiary ocean port.
B.
it's 3am - yes, most sensible ones are sleeping.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd
thats a town??
There is a town there but I am looking for the name of the place which is far more famous.
that's an edit button? ~D
Gives me the idea of a volcano, no idea where it is tho
ya gotta remember you're dealing with an international audience here,
famous bits of land jutting out into the ocean for aussies extend to Gallipoli and Normandy and thats about it for us.
with no buildings we have no other clues (is that the droppings of the western seagull on that rock??)
:help:
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
Hard to give a clue that will not give it away instantly...
clue: WWII
You said too much:
Iwo Jima, that's Mount Surabachi
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:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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.
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.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
~:confused:
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.