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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.