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Smack dab in the middle of "Tornado Alley", barocca shows us
Wichita, Kansas, US
Yeah; 51 busses. West of the Mississippi, the automobile rules, in terms of city planning (if you can call it that).
You've probably heard of Wichita before in cowboy movies, Texans moving their cattle herds to the railhead there.
I tried Kansas city. :wall: :furious3:
I would like to know what the clues were referring to
I got lost in Ohio... somehow I thought the third rock clue was referring to the TV show: 3rd rock from the sun, which apparently were about a city in Ohio.
The towns in the midwest look alike from that altitude...
Good job Kukri.
I'm not too sure of the clues either. I first thought "Indiana", and toured Gary, Muncie, Indianapolis... all looking similar, but no match. Frustrated, I re-examined: why did I think "Indiana"? Answer: because it's flat. So, where else is flat? Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska.
As I zoomed in on Kansas, Wichita was the first city to pop up, so it was a lucky 'hit'.
With Sigurd confirming my guess, I'll assume I was correct, and make another assignment, to move the game along.
You guys know I get intrigued easily by the appearance of unexpected images - giant pink bunnies, etc. Well here's another one:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/12.JPG
This is so distinctive, I'll let it stand on its own without clues for a bit. (Extra bragging rights granted for naming the figure, as well as the city)
Let me be the first to narrow this down a little...
Those apartment blocks really look like those found in the southern Spain...
I have to go to work now... and will probably not find any time for searching until returning home.
Southern Spain..
Sevilla?
Fine guess, but incorrect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avicenna
My first guess was Barcelona.
I was wrong, but I got the language correct. ~;)
Oh, and that language is not Spanish...
Many languages have been spoken in this city since Roman times - even (for a short while, thanks to this guy):
https://jimcee.homestead.com/pete.jpg, english.
That's baron Mordaunt, isn't he?
Indeed. Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth. Wow, Louis.
It's been a while since I posted a city, huh?
I take it the city we are looking for is Valencia,Spain and the figure for the bonus point is Gulliver..
+2 acumen to Sigurd Fafnesbane; Valencia & Gulliver are correct.
Come on, Siggie, give us a stumper! :laugh4:
Oh, I have one in mind already.
The new "stumper"... Clues provided when asked (I want you to at least try to analyze this first).
England I'd say. (Well the British Isles)
* starts looking for a place with a professional footy team AND a gothic cathedral...*
Western euro street layout (originally the ancient, "concentric circles around important building" type), but now modernized - more scattered. A rail line (looks like freight vs passenger). A river with bridges over it, and (surprisingly) an entire building complex over it as well (hydro-electric plant?).
A large footie stadium (I'd estimate it holds about 35,000 people). I can't make out enough street traffic to determine left- or right-hand driving. Cricket pitches in the north? Too big for tennis courts, I think.
Preliminary conclusions: Not N.America, Asia, or Africa. Likely Western Europe, probably UK. L00king for major railheads.
I checked all over England, but I can't find it. Goodness, there's no end to the amount of medium-sized British towns with a football club...
Anybody had any luck? Ideas? Is it not Britain?
Looks like a small stadium to me. I've been scouring the grounds; nothing yet.
[Starting to believe it's not English, though I refuse to rule out the possibility.]
I took a few "cruises" down English rivers; no dice with the biggies (Thames, Avon, etc), so that waterway is a much smaller river. Also tried some uni towns, without luck (Oxford, Cambridge, Keel).
Then slipped across the channel to coastal w.euro; the towns don't look the same. I'm convinced it's UK, and probably England/Wales. OTOH, I've gone on wild goose chases before. :laugh4:
I guess I'm ready to admit my instincts haven't bore fruit, so I need a clue.
Nice stumper, Sigurd. :thumbsup:
Clues are in order.
This town (its a city in my book since it has its own university) is old and became an Abbey in the 13th century.
Kings lie burried at this Abbey.
It was again raised to a greater status in the 15th century and became a Burgh of Barony.
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Paisley. I should've known from the start, though I couldn't remember exactly
where you were familiar with.
To call it a city's stretching it a bit, I would've thought. Might as well go all-out
and label it a metropolis. ~;)
You're correct!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče.jabolko
I don't know, but here over the pond when a town manages to establish a university, it gets the status of city.
my next clue would be the textile industry and their well known pattern.
I have had somewhere in mind for a while, although the globe and map pages
only seem to provide poor quality images at the height I would prefer.
This'll do for the time being, I think:
Rats; I should have known 'up' wasn't necessarily 'North'.:idea2: Good assignment, Sigurd; searching, I learned more about the UK countryside.Quote:
Paisley.
Paisley was a good one, Sigurd. :2thumbsup:
At least Kukri, rdeče and I were on the right track. Football team, UK, university, gothic cathedral (well, abbey).
Paisley Abbey.
I'm working on rdeče's picture. Or to be more precise, I'm stumped.
I'm touring eastern european cities to see if I get a lucky match; striking out so far with Ljubljana, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, and Zagreb & Sarajevo. Maybe I'm wasting my time in E.Euro.
The little spots of red and blue among the otherwise grey/green city are interesting.
The blurry bit to the right of the image suggests that the city borders an area not given full resolution from the satellite. So maybe a 'smaller' town.
Trying to analyze rdeče's city...
To far up to actually see traffic...
Mostly larger apartment buildings in the area
A strange building up north with a metal like roof.
Lots of fauna inside this city/town
The black tarmac on the stadium is interesting though. I can't remember having seen that before.
I think red is the more usual colour, at least in Europe. What is that thing to the north of the stadium?
There is also a lot of tar roofing on those buildings. This could indicate colder climate.
It does look eastern europe/North western Asia with those large open squares behind the apartment buildings.
Time to go home... Will look at this later
I think this is a city that lies in the former Soviet union ... It looks like Kiev.
However I am not able to find the stadium with the black tarmac nor the strage beetle like metal building.
The city could be in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia
What I find funny is that it's built to look monumental. Axes, lines of sight, wide avenues ending with grand monuments.
But the blocks aren't closed. They are free standing buildings, in a very green environment. Like a village that's trying to emulate Paris or something.
Maybe it's in a former Soviet Republic? The Balkans? A regional capital? Or is it in Asia?
Oh, the suspense of it all....
(And rdeče, please no clues yet if it's up to me! We need a good challenge.)
[Fear not, mes amis; watching this process is interesting enough. No clues yet,
as I think it could simplify the task a little too much at an early stage.]
You are all reassuringly methodical, if nothing else.
:book:
first of all we have had no telecoms service here for the last three days,
so i apologise for not giving more clues to the wichita one
i had best explain the ones i did give..
the "third rock" bit was meant to allude to the obvious,
which, when you look at googleMAP (which i have mentioned that i use), then Wichita is slap bang in the middle.
"antipodean interdimensional physics" - well i live in australia, which we call Oz - the land of Oz - which is Not in Kansas (and Wichita IS)
"we're not in kansas anymore toto...."
and i found out why there are so many airports/runways just outside the area i displayed - lots of aircraft factories there. (which i would have turned into a clue)
i still am uncertain why there are so many statistical anomolies, but then, it is kansas...
Minor disturbances in the space-time continuum, no doubt. Happens alla time in Kansas. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
To rdeče.jabolko's image: it can't be Asia (except in the very western sense); certainly not 'modern' asia.
Kukri dives into the smaller ville's of the former CCCP.
1 Q: Is up = north?
That was I had thought about, but dismissed too easily as I used Google Earth which starts staring at the Netherlands. Good clues though!Quote:
the "third rock" bit was meant to allude to the obvious,
which, when you look at googleMAP (which i have mentioned that i use), then Wichita is slap bang in the middle.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
From the blurry line on the right you can see how much it is rotated. Taking into account the shadows, the main street goes to the west (or north) away from the big building. So rotate it 150 degrees or so clockwise to get the right orientation?
Except for the big building, the photo doesn't show anything interesting to me that makes it different from dozens other towns. So focusing on that:
Is that a big staircase in front of the big building? And it seems to have two slightly higher towers near its entrance. Or perhaps the slightly longer shadow is caused by the building standing on a hill. Which makes sense if there is indeed a grand staircase. 4 dots on the staircase could be statues? Barrel roof or a dome with a strange higher tower behind it. The entrance looks weird with a fanlike form. Not really classical or baroque.
AHA!...
Good stumper rdeče.
We were on the right track with our analysis people.
North in the picure is actually nearly straight east (with a slight angle towards south).
The strange building looks like a gouvernor recidence (perhaps a theatre), but I can't read the letters naming it.
The city has a Greek name and is inhabited both by Ukranians and Russians in addition to its native population.
Tiraspol in Moldavia! After Sigurd's comments I first started looking at Belarus as it was lying between Russia and Ukraine. Looking for a Greek named city, perhaps polis or something. But then I had a try in Wikipedia with a Moldavian city and it showed a far higher Russian and Ukranian population than in Belarus. So I went back that city, zoomed in, found an athletic track and then that building.
Beginner's luck :grin:
I'll need to go soon and I don't have time in the weekend. So I hope that I am allowed to post now, and a I guess a fairly easy one:
Under Construction
A hint for the people who want to use google search:
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Zoomed out more as my first submission was a bit too obscure, sorry about that.
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Excellent work on the last one. :2thumbsup:
The city was Tiraspol, capital of the unrecognised and disputed state of
Transnistria, (Pridnestrovie) which is quite possibly the only remaining Soviet
state in Europe. [If I remember my unrecognised states correctly.] Clues may
have included the presence of both Russians and Ukrainians, perhaps the
twinning with Trondheim; ~;) the existence of 3 top-flight Moldovan football
teams in the city [including the Moldovan champions] and also the state's
current coat of arms:
He,he ...
I believe we are seeing a before and after picture with those shiny "barrels?"...
Farmland all around...
This looks like Europe
Those long narrow fields look remarkably like the kind you see in Holland to me, beyond that not sure I can offer much.
It's Holland, that's for sure
Mostlikely somewhere near the place DJ lives
I guess I gave you too little reference points in the photo. I'll zoom out a bit more:
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sadly nothing here means much to me
(coastal city, rail line, river - but thats a large number of towns...)
the barrel vault clue also means not much to me,
too many buildings on the planet use the structure
:-/
The barrel structure is based on the Zollinger construction method (not that many recent examples, so it should narrow down your search, if you can describe what those vaulted buildings are correctly then the city will pop right up). The inside of the dome looks like this:
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Rimini, Italy. :jumping:
Who'd have thought Italy's Adriatic coast looked so much like Holland...
:rtwyes: Corretto!
Good job..Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
I thought it was somwhere in Germany, with the Friedrich Zollinger clue.
I looked in Friedrichafen which apparently has a Zollinger inspired building complex much like the one on Duke John's picture.
I couldn't even find the building complex there...
Googling led me to the building method, which led me suddenly to this page.
New one, tough again!:
https://img71.imageshack.us/img71/4337/rkct8.png
Hidden space base on mars? :wink:
Is that the sun power plant from Africa?
The one with mirrors that reflect the sun to a tower in the middle?
I was thinking about that too, although I expected the mirrors to be more shiny. Isn't the one in Africa supposed to be build in the future. I believe the biggest one currently is somewhere in America
Edit: which would be Boulder City, Nevada, can't seem to pinpoint it though. On the other hand, the mirrors are usually place more radially. And there are also quite a lot of buildings which is not really nessecary for such a power plant.
Edit 2: Aren't we looking at an Arabic city or something? The round things seem like roundabouts with housing clustered around it. And the whiteish long rectangle thing on the right looks like horse/camel race track. And the thing next to it looks like a stadium.
Woohoo, got one!
King Khalid Military City in Saudi Arabia http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1353043
Alas I haven't got a follow up question, so if someone else wants another go they're welcome
KKMC is correct. Are you sure you don't want to try us with a question of your own? Come on, just give it a go. :yes:
DJ: your edit2 was spot on. ~;)
It is an intersting place to check out. For those interested in it just copy paste King Khalid Military City into your Google Earth / Maps or Wikipedia and off you go...
all my searches and i missed that idea...Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
shoulda searched for barrel vault contstruction methods...
That city is weird. Now I understand why an Arabic city would have a stadium and roundabouts, it was populated by Americans! Good find, Yawning Angel!
Edit: any objection if I post a pic to keep this going?
If you come across anything, please feel free to post it, Yawning Angel.
Meanwhile, and sticking with the Mars theme, you can all sink your teeth into this one:
https://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6748/ge4ud9.png
Note that up isn't north, but that shouln't really matter with this symmetrical martian base.
Umm, apologies for the lack of picture, I spotted the KKMC one just as I was about to leave work yesterday (productive afternoon - not :embarassed: ) and didn't have time to post a question.
Alas today I am slightly busy :whip: so go with Louis' picture or a Duke John one. I will sort out a pic to post for next time I manage to get one.
As to Louis' city:
I know it says Google earth on that picture, but this is clearly a fake. :sweatdrop:
Am I looking at a photoshoped picture from Command & Conquer?
Awesome image!
It looks like a hotel under construction with a big foyer/entrance/gambling area around it. It's got a worn look, but that might be because of a dust/sand in the air. I checked Dubai, but there doesn't seem to be such a building there and I believe that they are more into smooth shiny forms.
The ridges on the sloped roofs and the stepped top in the middle look odd, not really architectural sound so there must another reason. Looks a bit like a balustrade along a stairway to the top. Stepped roof doesn't appear Arabic.
No asphalt roads so it doesn't appear to be build in a city environment, or at least not in the centre.
...
It says 2005 on the photo but all my photos say 2007. Is this an old image, did you get it from the internet?
I can't run Google Earth on my computer, so all my pictures are from the internet.Quote:
It says 2005 on the photo but all my photos say 2007. Is this an old image, did you get it from the internet?
Is there a way I can save pictures, or take screenshots, from google maps?
I checked with Google Maps, the...'thing' looks somewhat different but should be instantly recognisable. It looks a bit whiter now than in my pic, which was probably taken during one of Coruscants infamous sand storms. :book:
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Coruscant does not have sand... it is one big city which covers the entire planet surface. :whip:
When I "take" my pictures, I use the [Alt]+[Prt Scr] keys and [Ctrl]+[V] into mspaint.
I then format the picture the way I like, upload it to Photobucket.
I guess you can do this with any picture you are looking at (a picture in a browser or in an application).
I'm going for the Jedi Temple from Star Wars
I'll zoom out for my clue:
https://img169.imageshack.us/img169/...uscant2xt5.gif
[Alt]+[Prt Scr] keys and [Ctrl]+[V] into mspaint works perfectly. I so lack even elementary computer skillz. :dunce:
Next week, I'm going to learn how to get rid of those white areas when copy/pasting....
The building shape certainly echo's a favorite design for casino-hotels. Atlantic City, NJ & Las Vegas searches come up empty though, for an exact match. I guess we're outside the US. And the red-clay earth & vegetation kind of rule out the Middle-East/Persian Gulf.
Maybe Mexico. Checking resorts there, especially newer construction.
i concur with Stig on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
B.
How tall do you think that building is?
I am trying to locate it using this: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/
Alas, I don't have the time.
Someone else up for the task?
I suspect that the slope of the roof is about 45 degrees. Guessing that the width of a "wing" is 10-12 metres and then a rough measure of its length: 7*10-12 = 70-84 metres -> 1.4 * 70-84 = 100 to 120 metres + top. Looked at your site. That still results in a very large amount of possibilities and not all them have pictures either.
This last picture with above = north. The shadows are pointing upwards which means around noon. And you can't very long shadows near the equator around noon right, even in winter?
Louis has discovered MsPaint!! :jumping:
https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8797/corus4hr8.png
If i were you, i would not remove the white space, but use it as you just did. :laugh4: Also, I havent the slightesr Idea where that town is...I think its in the antartic ice shelfs...
I hesitate to give you this tip as your drawings are awesome! :grin:
In Paint, try this:
Create a new image, then paste your printscreen, select you want and copy.
Create another new image and paste again.
Deselect (press any button) and then move to the bottom right of the image. You should see a small black rectangle which you can move around to resize your canvas and remove the white.
Or you could try one of those free image viewers which let you crop. You could try Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/
Personally, I think it better to just stick with the stuff you already have, and master it. Just do the doodlebop thingamajig he mentioned. I have screenies to help you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
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Just use the boxes and the direstions noted with the arrows and the circles to crop the image. Not as good as photoshop, but a hell of alot easier to open and to manage.(pardon the bad doodle)
OK, I'm stumped. After checking major resort cities, and googling "world's largest buildings", I'm no closer to resolution.
I beg a clue.
p.s. You're quite handy with msPaint's drawing tool. Bravo! :laugh4:
Some clues:
- the last picture is the same city again. The 'thing' is in the top left.
- we've encountered those blue rooftops before. They mean this city is in the continent of...
- it is a big city. Well-known.
Search thread: "blue roof" -> Asia.
It should be a well known city and consider the size that continent that would probably mean capital cities. So I went through all the major Asian cities and looking through the pattern of large river with small river and a few bridges, couldn't find any besides a few Japanese ones.
I skipped North Korea a few times since you're not allowed to go there, right? As a last try I did, and voila, noticed the correct rivers and that odd building.
So it is: Pyongyang, North Korea
But where did you get the original image, Louis? Google Earth/Maps doesn't show it.
Some info on the building: it's 330 metres high. Appears to be build in Russian style and remains unfinished. Some images:
http://static.flickr.com/35/100571773_ec21b93bac_o.jpg
http://www.peterlanger.com/Countries...KPPYO050BW.jpg
If was finished it would have been tallest hotel in the world and since that isn't the case, and NK isn't exactly popular in the western world, googling for the "tallest hotel" does not bring this up.
Nice one, Louis!
In my previous submission some people thought I posted a city in the Netherlands. So, as I do not want to dissapoint them this time:
Typical Dutch
https://img177.imageshack.us/img177/...aldutchch0.jpg
Should be easy if you think about it... :wink:
The first tip:
It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck and, amazingly, it even looks like a 400-year old duck, but is it really a duck? See for yourselves.
Here. Scroll down a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
North Korea is endlessly fascinating. I'd almost wish they would be a bit richer, so their bizarre regime could leave the world a build legacy that would completely trump anything the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany have left. Pyongyang would resemble Coruscant if those Sith Kim lords had it their way.
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