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The park reminds me of a zoo, but there doesn't seem to be enough space for seperated animals. Must be special since there are too many buildings for a regular park.
The building just to the right of it looks a bit like the Capitol (meaning classical and with a dome). The many sloped roofs with courtyards in the middle of the building blocks reminds me of France than US though. Traffic drives on the right.
screams east europe at me,
(at the very least old europe)
some clues before i spend bandwidth on searching please
This former King's city is one of the few that has an international name in addition to its native name.
At one time it was only called 'harbour'.
Kalinngrad (Konigsberg)
photobucket doesn't have a limit m8, but you have to take it of 800x600 and set it to 17 inch.
Sorry no...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
I don't quite get what you are saying there m8...Quote:
photobucket doesn't have a limit m8, but you have to take it of 800x600 and set it to 17 inch.
Meh, I got killed in my mafia game. ( :furious3: ) So I'm back for a few rounds of Google Earth again!
Alas, I know the current city a bit all too well. There's no fun or honour in me giving the answer. I'll share a hint though, the building below is in his picture:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Good one. :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
You can set your only limit to the imagesize, somewhere in the settingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
a shot in the dark
Peking / Beijing
I think Louis' picture did more harm than help...Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
No it is not Peking.
st petersburg
(there are an awful lot of cities that are "former kings cities")
It is not st. Petersburg...Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
The King's city is not the only clue :sweatdrop:
edit: I found a temporary solution to the problem with small pictures though it is not exactely what I wanted.
For those of you that like me have a screen resolution of 1280x1024 you only have to decrease it to 1024x768 to see the details in the picture.
It would have been better however to store the pictures in 1024x768 to get the sharp details.
yar - but a google on cities with international and native names got me over 100 (especially in asia)
and with cities like Myanmar/Mandalay being a city of two names and a former royal city to boot we can keep going for days...
so Myanmar/Mandalay
Sorry no,Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
I was more thinking of the third clue.
Louis' building is a restaurant. France is famous for its cuisine, so I kept thinking France. Yet, the former king's cities that I know are not it. No geometrical road layout and or dense medieval blocks.
Eastern Europe, he?
...there is a church in the topleft with a square tower. So not orthodox.
In France there is a town called "Le Havre". But it doesn't seem to match. It was founded by a King.
edit.. duplicate (???)
Let's add to the clues.
This city became a place of commerce which added a word to it's former name. It became a threat to the Hanseatic League which attacked it repeatedly.
Kopenhavn! Which has absolutely nothing to do with a Frenchman and Japanese restaurant :wink:
Edit: and just as I was writing this I noticed a flashing PM. Trust me barocca that I found it on my own. But you would have been quicker, so thanks for allowing me to post it first. It felt like a race to see who got it first, nice :grin:
Correct!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
The international name is the german: Copenhagen and the danish native name is København or Kjøbmandehavn (Merchants' harbour) During the late Viking age it was just kalled Havn or harbour.
In scandinavia it was called the King's city. As you know Norway shared at one time the Danish King. We also imported a king from Denmark of which our current king is the grandson.
The contrast in the picture below struck me and which is apparent in the whole city and not just in this part.
https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5430/escapema4.jpg
Just a quick observation to narrow down our search...
An airport with what appears to be two Boeing 737 machines and a Boeing 777 machine.
A lot of yellow cabs in the parking lot outside the airport.
A slum area next to the airport with a river and what appears to be rice fields. I am saying slum because there are no visible roads between the housing.
This is obviously in Asia somewhere.
Where does airplanes nearly land in the city...
Hong Kong?
(I haven't looked in google earth yet)
edit: hmm looking at Hong Kong it seems they have closed down the city airport...
if the game is going to be "post picture and give no clues"
then i cant wait to get my next shot
B.
I can't figure it out either. I tried some places, from Egypt to Pakistan to Indonesia, but no luck...
Sorry about that pagoda picture, that was mean. It is a restaurant in Tivoli, in the centre of Kopenhagen.
Following Sigurd's hunches, I checked out Asia's major Int'l airports (figuring it must be large enough to accomodate such jumbo jets).
Those yellow cabs intrigued me. I saw none, anywhere in the cities I reviewed. Finally, I moved west, zoomed in on India/Pakistan, and there it was (after about 5 false leads):
Chattrapathi Shivaji International Airport , Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay), the busiest airport in India & south asia.
I can't say I used much deduction (except to rule out NYC, the other "yellow cab" capital of the world). It was just a matter of hopping airport to airport, looking for 300+ cabs assembled near the terminals, finding none, then moving on, until I stumbled over Mumbai.
Whew! Are my arms tired. :)
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edit: assuming I'm correct, here's another tasty morsel on which to feast your eyes:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/Goog4_op_800x654.jpg
Hint #1: This city, established in the 1600's, has changed names, and hands, many times in its history. It's current name is based on the name of a national hero, a statue of whom sits in the square you see.
FYI
New York State has over 300 towns that have changed names
(and hands - with brit and canadian invasions) in their history...:shocked:
still looking
B.
The hint was: "The contrast in the picture below struck me and which is apparent in the whole city and not just in this part."Quote:
if the game is going to be "post picture and give no clues"
Mumbai is quite known for its slums in the heart of the city, quite unusual as they usually are on its fringes. Project developers want the slum dwellers out of there, but most of them do not accept the new housing in which they will then be put. The contrast in the picture was slums versus ecomonic prosperity, which characterizes the whole city.
The hint was also in the picture itself. I thought in this game it was quite common that google is used to find cities. If you typed in "airport slums", or if you guessed the country right "india slums" then the first link would bring you to Mumbai. Because of this I first wanted to wait a few more responses (only Sigurd had responded when I last logged on) until I gave more clues.
Cheers,
Rob
Good point. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
So, Hint #2: It's not in NY state, and neither Brit nor Canadian forces have ever (so far) invaded here.
Hint #3: The city is quite high in elevation ~4,500 ft.
DJ - apologies old friend, but even after the answer to the clue I dont see slums there, i noticed the farmland and the craziness of having such right next to an airport (toxic fumes)
Kukri - Ulan Bator (Ulaanbaatar Mongolia)
is correct! Good job.Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
Take it away barocca.
Wrestlers at the Naalamm festival there
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...lers-ap416.jpg
https://img175.imageshack.us/img175/...boot571bg5.jpg
Hint #1: This city, established thousands of years ago, has changed names, changed hands, and been utterly destroyed many times in its history.
It's current name is not based on the name of a national hero, a statue of whom is the center of focus for the road network.
B.
Hint #2: Surprising because of it's location, the city has a decent Korean minority.
Hmmm... Korean expat communities.
Vancouver BC, Canada vegetation looks similar, but can't find that street pattern.
Munich, Bavaria, Germany, not enough trees to match the image.
Bangkok, Thailand, also not enough trees, and more heavily populated than the image.
Paris, France, can't match the street pattern.
Los Angeles, US; not enough freeways :) and not 'thousands years old'.
Mexico City, Mexico; can't match street pattern.
OK, I'm not getting it with the hints. What do I see?
Tree-lined streets that radiate out from a central point eastward (ala the ancient 'mound' fort/city design), but grid-style westward. Near the center, a blue-roofed dome (orthodox christian? or mosque?); also some long and tallish buildings, suggesting gov't offices.
Alright then; I'm off to eastern Europe on a hunch.
Hint #3: When Genghis Kahn arrived to sack the city he was most upset to find someone else had done so but a few years earlier and the city had not yet recovered (ie - not much loot).
In a tiff Genghis destroyed the city.
Ahh... the old Genghis neighborhood. One of the 'stans' likely.
edit: Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A surprisingly nice looking city, judging from the photographs.
LoL; what I ID'd as a possible religious site was the Amir Timur Museum.
http://static3.bareka.com/photos/med...mur-museum.jpg.
No Yellow taxi's in this town. Here, they're either red (regular) or white (limo's).
https://jimcee.homestead.com/googerth6.jpg
Oi! I wanted to host that city! :wink:
Since I recognized it instantly I'll skip this one. Never watched the movie though.
I just found out what red taxi really means.. :sweatdrop:
a four hour search narrowed down the list of cities who have only red taxis to four,
and none of them are that pic...
In other words the www is missing at least one city from the list of "red taxi only"
- another clue please
This city of 3 million+ inhabitants, lies in a country that resisted colonization until the early 1900's. It is not a colony today.
edit: Sigurd: gotta stay away from those 'urban dictionaries', lest you get grossed out. I meant nothing of the kind, of course. Taxicabs
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
Are not Louis playing?
I guess it is his turn..
It was the movie reference and the red dirt (not red taxi) that made me find this city.
And ... I have not seen the movie either (just thought I should put that in... :sweatdrop: )
cities of 3 mill are a dime a dozen, (rats and double rats)
countries that resisted colonisation until the 1900's include phillipines, ghana, mexico (some tribes never submitted until after independence from spain) and even australia (according to some aboriginies the war goes on today)
(good clues tho')
intrigued (sleep time, i'll thunk again in the morning)
B.
I am playing, Sigurd! Those two central Asian cities had me stumped. They have so many cultural influences that I just didn't know where to even begin looking. (note to self: a potpourri of influences = central Asia). They look Asian, AND European, AND euro-colonial....
By the time I was beginning to get a clue they were guessed already.
The current city is easy, people have guessed it already I see. It almost looks southern French, but not quite. So French colonial probably: North Africa, Beirut. The movie reference made me check Casablanca.
Let's see what you all make of this:
https://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6417/ville2wq0.jpg
Up is north. The picture was taken directly from Google Maps with the edges cut off for effect.
i do not think we should accept such modification to an image,
blotting out the long/lat bar is fine,
but not cutting away entire sections of the city
Well, most of the time the entire city isn't included in the picture anyway, so I don't see what's wrong with it. A sizeable chunk of the city is shown.
This is another of Louis's planned communities, of which he is enamored (understandably; I am too).
At first blush, it doesn't look american/canadian, rather asian or former-soviet. But the strict diagonal layout defies classification as any particular continent's 'style' of civic planning.
This place was originally laid out on some student/teacher's grid paper, I think, with green areas strategically located, LOCs (lines of communication/roads) placed for maximum efficiency, and central assembly areas located at center, and 1 and 2 o'clock. I daresay that, even on foot, a resident living at 7 o'clock, could arrive at that race-track-looking area within two hours, with arms, or betting money, or a vote.
So I suspect: an american-educated city-planner somewhere in the former ussr "built" this city.
I'm off to Poland, and central/eastern europe for this one.
p.s. Although I appreciate Louis's intent in focusing our attention on a coo-o-ol geographic pattern, I also gotta give props to barocca's lament and appeal for context. In terms of this image interpretation game that we play here, knowing/seeing the surrounding farmland-swamp-desert-whatever, would help folks guess the region, and focus their search.
pps: Thanks for the north orientation:bow:. After google-searching whatever clues are provided, it's helpful to know one needn't reorient ones map to find the image.
I don't see what's wrong with my picture? Cutting off the edges is not different from zooming in a level. The only difference is that now the visible area is cut it off diagonally instead of horizontally and vertically, which was done to keep the peculair shape of the objext intact.
And this game is not meant to be easy! We're here to pose fiendishily difficult questions for each other..
But here's the city again:
https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8256/ville1re4.png
Hmmm... I wonder if that is fuel or water storage to the north-east - and is that the southern tip of an airport/airstrip up there also.
Zooming in, I don't see vehicles - very strange. Maybe I just missed them.
My preliminary guess: we're looking at a mid-sized, not-ancient city, a product of urban planning, somewhere in China. The purpose of this city is not immediately obvious. What do they do there besides live and breathe? What do they make there?
*goes off to look at random chinese cities of 125K - 250K population.*
It is indeed a strange location...
The surrounding landscape looks like the northern hemisphere above the warmer climate.
I think this might be a larger than 250K city (My hometown is a 250K city).
Where are the trains? and why does that belt around the main block look green?
In the larger picture there is a stadium. I wonder what they play there...
I wish for a closeup of this city to get my bearings on religion, traffic, housing etc..
edit: I wonder if the green belt is infact train tracks that moves around the large grid city.
Always happy to oblige:Quote:
I wish for a closeup of this city to get my bearings on religion, traffic, housing etc..
https://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4003/eglisekt1.jpg
Actually, I had three pictures ready for hints, at different zoom levels. Two you've seen already, the third one zoomes in very closely. But that last one would give too many hints for this stage of the guessing. I will post it later. For now, the hints are:
the above picture
the city has between 500 000 and 1 000 000 inhabitants
it's not in China
I hate to say it... but I am stomped.
I can't seem to identify the cars on the picture nor the shape of their number plates.
The red pickup seems American.
The white next to it seems like a Fiat Uno.
The next white seems to be a pickup of some sort... Yugo?
The beige... is unknown Seat/ Citröen/Asian?
There is another white behind the blue which is rater big.
The blue looks like a Citröen Xsara Picasso.
Two cars enter the picture a red unknown and a black SUV, also unknown.
The silver small car could either be a Peugot 106 or a Fiat Palio...
All cars seem a little off though...
The church, a beautiful cathedral, does not look catholic to me but rather Protestant.
We can barely see some high-rise apartments in the background.
There is also another car parked outside the doorway, it has a strange contraption attached to it.
This is all I got from the picture… which is : the town is western.
In Canada somewhere?
The shape of those numberplates would have helped a lot
Hints:
-They speak a Latin language in this city.
-The city plan is not just geometrical, it is also highly symbolical. You can see this most clearly in the first picture, which shows only the part of the city of the original plan. For example, it is build up of a basic pattern of 6 x 6 groups of 6 x 6 blocks...:skull:
(You don't need to guess the meanings of the symbolism, but you could try to guess to which group the architects belonged. ~;) )
I shudda known... no blue roofs = not asia, LoL.
So a Masonic layout then. And I never would have imagined that bright blue sky over the first images Louis posted.
Let's see what Mssr. Google has to say about Masonic city layouts.
edit: that red pickup truck with the camper on the rear = the americas. I'm so embarrassed. Latin language, hmm...
La Plata
B.
edit -
the only clue i got was "speak latin" = south america's
as for the rest of the clues, no comprende'
(i deduced plains and approximate latitude from the pic)
(and next time we need to remember to search on freemason as well as masonic)
barocca nailed it...
This was a tough one. But I had fun searching and I even involved my wife who had a go at it.
I guess the cathedral is Catholic after all ?
:shocked:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
lmao - me too - my missus is also enjoying these,
she said to say a special thank you to Louis for all the fun clues :yes:
:bow:
B.
https://img252.imageshack.us/img252/...stpole2qq4.jpg
:yes: :bow: <-- that is a clue...
Briefly scanned China, but could not find this pattern. Must be something special?
About the smilies; a nodding normal smiley and a nodding eastern smiley. East meets west?
It reminds me of communist district layouts...
The picture path names the picture 'east pole'... you might be on to something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
I shall have a look when I get home from work.
I tried Vladivostok, but no luck. I couldn't even zoom in to the proper level. My first instinct is Siberia. But the city is on the coast...
China, North Korea maybe?
Also, are we looking at the world's ugliest city?
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La Plata site with pictures. The public buildings and layout of the city are great, but alas, the city never lived up to it's promise, owing to 1930's modernism and Argentinas slow economical decline. Pity, it held such such promise as a hybrid between old and new world. The story of Argentina in general really. ~:mecry:
Here's a great essay. In French though. The second paragraph offers a brief English summary, and there are some good drawings.
I so wish I was a planologist in the nineteenth century! Then I could go to the Americas and play Simcity on a giant scale, designing cities, nay societies, from scratch.
Checked the top 9 Siberian cities without joy. But, I certainly agree, that those 9 have similar street/neighborhood patterns to barocca's selection, so I think we're in the right part of the world.
~:grouphug: <-- another clue
- from this city the Dark Lords command https://img122.imageshack.us/img122/5936/darth1it4.gif
- Descendents of William Wallace live here :charge:
B.
(edit - my speeelling)
That would be Athens. :PQuote:
Also, are we looking at the world's ugliest city?
grouphug, Dark Lords...Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
I thought Braveheart died without kids?
in the movie no kids,
in real life several lovers/wives
- the Dark Lords are themselves rebel scum!!! https://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7276/rebelscumpw5.gif
(no doubt influenced by the aforementioned imaginary relatives
- actually they WERE influenced by the aformentioned imaginary relatives)
- the Dark Lords hold a castle here to this day https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9844/death2jf9.gif
B.
the star wars theme has nothing to do with the city
- just having fun making smileys... (borrow a couple/make a couple)
B.
Grouphug = mixed nationalities
Dark holds hold a castle here to this day = Judging from the relatively modern look of the town I think castle means a government building.
From this city the dark lords command = either a capital city or a city which acts as a base for the government.
Darklords are rebelscum = an oppressed state? By China or Russia most likely.
DJ has some right and some wrong
https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/852/castle3dk1.gif
B.
EDIT that pic is a clue
lets review the clues and add a clue (that i consider a giveaway)
:yes: :bow: <-- that is a clue... - a clue to the country
~:grouphug: <-- another clue - a clue to the country (and the city)
- from this city the Dark Lords command https://img122.imageshack.us/img122/5936/darth1it4.gif - a clue to the city
- Descendents of William Wallace live here :charge: - a clue to the country and city
- the Dark Lords are themselves rebel scum!!! https://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7276/rebelscumpw5.gif - a clue to the city
(no doubt influenced by the aforementioned imaginary relatives
- actually they WERE influenced by the aformentioned imaginary relatives) - a clue to the country and city
- the Dark Lords hold a castle here to this day https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9844/death2jf9.gif - a clue to the city
- https://img186.imageshack.us/img186/852/castle3dk1.gif <-- this is their castle - a clue to the city
- the country where this city is don't like annexures, they will instead burn down the house. - a clue to the country
B.
Hamilton. In Ontario, Canada. :sweatdrop:
Yeah I see it (from 29,000 feet up), though my vid card make the image a lot brighter than that shown above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
I can't wait for the big reveal of how the clues relate to Hamilton.
Bravo, Louis! What was your method?
I slowly started to think we were looking at a North american city. What I thought looked like a Siberian city could also be a suburbian landscape. And then there was that mixed Scottish / Asian hint...
I tried Seattle, Vancouver, even Washington. (Dark Lords and all that...)
Oh, and Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland too.
Well at least I guessed the latitude and the cold climate somewhat right.
I suspected the dark lords may have refered to freemasons, but a quick google search led me nowhere. The last clue was the one I needed: 'the country where this city is don't like annexures, they will instead burn down the house'. Now it sounded like it was in Canada: a reference to the burning of the (white) house in 1812. Even so it was a lucky shot. I actually tried Toronto, and luckily a little to the south I glimsped a harbour that looked just like the one in the picture: Hamilton's.
Especially for Barocca - I know how much he loves geometrical cityscapes: ~;p
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Thought I'd try a different approach for a change. ~;)
All four pictures are from the same city.
Good luck!
reading about Hamilton on wiki,
and following some links gave me this about Barocca's clues
Canadians are universally recognised as friendly and agreeableQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
Canadians again - and Hamilton has a large number of expat communitiesQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
The National Office of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada is hereQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
ScotsQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
Canadian Scot Freemasons split from the English in 1855Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
it is the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada - Scots are always troublesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
The Grand Rite of The National Office of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of CanadaQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
The Grand Rite of The National Office of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of CanadaQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
Burning the White HouseQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
:wall:
well done Louis,
and nice pics too
I am seeing a semi-arid zone (not many trees),
(a bit drier than around here - which is pretty dry right now...)
densely populated - not many trees in the yards,
in fact not much in the way of open space in those grid blocks...
(some trees in the main streets??)
the octagon looks to be in the "better" part of town
somewhere in India??
Hints:
-For La Pata, there was a clear reason why I focused on the city lay out, it is that city's claim to fame. This is not true for the current city - the pictures I posted is just me being playful.
-Well there is one more additional reason: the current city is rather big, and lacks a clear shape. It is just a big blob, so I focused in on some details.
-Here is picture five, another neighbourhood:
https://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5696/ville5qd4.png
rather big officially or rather big perceptually?
is it made up of half a dozen cities all tied together (like mine - brisbane/logan/ipswich/redcliffe/pine river)??
or is it one single city?
for some reason i keep coming back to kolkata - even though i cant see these neighbourhoods.
tell you one thing the grass sure looks aussie to me,
this had better not be somewhere like melbourne, cause that a whole other country down there,
not even sure they speak english...
(dated a melbourne girl one time and i'm STILL not sure they speak english...)
say Louis these clues are nowhere near as interesting as your last lot,
36 hours and no-one is guessing 'cause no-one has any idea.
a big amorphous blob of a city with a few neat geometric features for which the city is Not famous leaves us absolutely lost.
may we please have a couple of clues to sink our teeth into
B's missus and B.