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This a game I found on another fourm. The rules are simple one person post a screen shot from google earth of the down town of a certain city and the others have to identify it. Please keep to cities that are fairly well known. For example no one wants to try to indenfy some city in the middle of nowhere.
I'll start:
https://img292.imageshack.us/img292/248/cityzn9.jpg
Edit: blanked out lat and long
I dont have google earth but i want to try to see if i can get it right, but that looks like Hong Kong.
Nope Guess again
I'll take a stab: New York City harbor?
Its somewhere is USA because:
a. It is using a NASA image.
b. The 3D building thing is on, which only works in America.
Tough to make out distinguishing features from 18,000 feet up.
It doesn't resemble the Los Angeles or SF areas, so I guessed NYC. Maybe Baltimore or Miami?
edit: Must be east-coast US, by the compass... about east-south-east. Maybe Charleston, South Carolina?
None mentioned, Hint: it is in the Midwestern U.S.
its probably a city bordering one of the great lakes or the mississippi river. (did i spell that right?)
It's Chicago.
EDIT: By the way, some of Mexico is also covered by NASA.
Here's my entry:
https://img238.imageshack.us/img238/...icturelpl9.png
EDIT: Post 1600! :balloon:
correctQuote:
Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Thats Hawaii.
Miami
Going by the in-pic compass, I guess west coast N.Am. But not Seattle, SF, LA, San Diego, Acapulco. Hmmm, maybe further north. Nope on Vancouver and Anchorage.
Inland more. Any clues?
Hamurg, Copenhague (howevr you call it in ENglish) or something?
Just a note, someone siad you coulld only get the 3-D Buildings in America, wrong, cause over here in Aussie on google earth we also can see 3-D buildings.
Now back to game, I don't any cities in AMerica, so I am not going to even guess.
EMFM's entry = Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal
My entry:
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...rth_entry1.jpg
Could be this is a bit hard, but not unsolvable.
Southern hemisphere; Sidney?
BTW, I dont have Google Earth, so I can't really partisipate...
Sigurd is correct.
Canberra
NoQuote:
Originally Posted by UltraWar
NoQuote:
Originally Posted by Taedius
Riga?
Bergen, Norway
Not Bergen or Riga...
I could say that Warluster should get this one.
Brisbane?
its eihter what Ichigo said or The GOld COast (Excellent place, you should go there some day, it never rains!We're on Level 5 water restritions
Correct!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ichigo
What you see on the pic is part of Garden Point and QUT campus.
Just accross the river is the famous South Bank resort.
I used to live in Brisbane M8... I know it is sunny.. maybe too sunny for my taste. I have been to Surfers Paradise a few times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warluster
South Bank?
Famous?
Resort?
Someone wake sigurd up :grin2:
Famous for all the students in town... who couldn't bother taking an hour drive to the nearest decent beach.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapi
What is not to like? ... A beach in the middle of the city... what a great idea.
You're just sore because you didn't notice it was Brisbane :beam:
I can't seem to get my image to load on imageshack so someone else can have my turn.
Try PhotoBucket then!
https://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3593/photoim7.jpg
Finally got it to work.
Easy one. London.
Yep, how did you know?Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
Because it's London, dude. :grin:
Anyway, here's one a bit harder:
https://i113.photobucket.com/albums/...ief/ge01-1.jpg
Too easy GH...
It's Aberdeen
Argh...
Go again Sigurd.
Paris
you got it :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ichigo
Alright... I swept over Japan and recognised the zebra crossings; I looked in every major Japanese city.
Kyoto is the name of this city
I had been following this thread, was away for a day and someone posts bloodyQuote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Aberdeen?! Aaaargh.
:shame:
Indeed it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
Dubai?
Damn you got good eyes M8...
Correct!!
Comment to the picture: Up in the right corner you can see the contruction of Burj Dubai, soon to be the tallest building in the world
Question spoiled for size problems:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
That's Vienna.
Don't expect me to be nice. Though I won't be posting any of your hometowns
while you're not looking either.
Yup. :balloon2:Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče.jabolko
Sorry for that old black and white photograph, I didn't have google earth installed so I just searched for a satellite picture.
I'm waiting.
Well good for you, Csar. Keep waiting.
Damn you!!! Curses!!!:soapbox:Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče.jabolko
Problems with connection weren't helping uploads. Here you go:
By the way, Louis, I had no problem with that image. In fact, it's even better
than the only one I've seen on Google Earth, with its handily placed cloud over
the Ernst Happel.
Phinox?
Phoenix? No, it isn't.
Mexico City
Not Mexico City.
Yeah, didn't think so the stadium isn't from Mexico City.
EDIT: Then again knowing you it'll be something to do with football. :laugh4:
EDIT2: Okay I'll take a guess Barcelona.
Ah, well, then there'd be nothing wrong with Seville, would there? I'll be watching
the match at the lane tonight, as well as Espanyol - Benfica, so you could take
a reasonable guess on Barcelona as well.
Both would be wrong though. ~;)
Phomn Pehn?
Thinking outside the box... hm. Not Phnom Penh, no.
Gold Coast?
Those damn Terracotta roofs!
EDIT: Looks like all and yet none of the Spanish cities I've looked at.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warluster
Well there might just be a reason for that, mate. Take it a bit further. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rythmic
Barcelona
Already said no to Barcelona. Also nowhere in Spain. Though it looks Spanish,
yes. How could that possibly be the case?
D'know, somehwere the SPanish have been?
I'd say either somewhere in portugal,Mexico or somewhere in South America. But I can't pinpoint a city.
I say "uncle". I've looked throughout Central and South American capitals, and southern Europe (thanks for the "Spanish clues"). Can't find that trident-shaped intersection, with a traffic circle at center. It screams Europe to me, though traffic circles are not unknown here.
Any more clues for us idiots?
I intentionally avoided capitals. [I viewed this as reasonable, considering those
cities previously posted.] The city was founded by the Spanish and is, to my
knowledge, the largest and most populous in its country.
Edit: I should have added that although the city in question is not one of this
particular nation's capitals, [one constitutional, the other administrative] it is
understandably the capital of the largest of its nine administrative regions, or
departamentos.
I know where it is, I don't know what city it is though.
What??? nobody found this yet?
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Ahhh, now I see. When scanning Bolivia, I looked at La Paz. Is that a statue in the center of that traffic circle? Maybe of Simon Bolivar?
The oh-so-surprised Sigurd is correct. The city is Santa Cruz, (de la Sierra) in
Bolivia. It is a picture of the ring structure meeting in the centre of the city,
with the football stadium, the name of which I forget, visible in the corner.
Originally considered posting a picture including the river [Mamoré] but thought
that too easy. Anyway, well done - take it away, Sigurd.
Ah, I am not fooling a Loun from Aberdeen. Yes, I too looked all over Spain when you first posted it.
The new quiz:
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...eka/Entry4.jpg
Yeah you got that right. I would've instantly recognized the Mamoré riverbed and known it was Santa Cruz de la Sierra! :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by rdeče.jabolko
Sigurd: I know what that is in your picture! It's an airport, isn't it!? :beam:
Well that's excellent Louis, because y'know, I'd expect every North / WestQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
European to be so very familiar with our South American brothers. ~;)
It is...Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
But it is another stucture in that picture that will give the location away.