Google Earth: Identify the city

[barocca]

usually we use imageshack
(we pick a city, hit print screen, open a graphic program then paste, trim save and host on imageshack)
B.

[barocca]

query - ye-haa! was a clue to canada???

[KukriKhan]

query - ye-haa! was a clue to canada???

Well, a clue to cowboys (who live not only in Texas), and a reference to the Stampede, the world's largest outdoor rodeo. I guess I could have said:
"Yippie-ti-yi-yay, git along little dogies... eh?" to be more specific. :)

You gonna take the next task, b, if our winner can't manage the hosting thing?

[barocca]

"Yippie-ti-yi-yay, git along little dogies... eh?" to be more specific. :)

i am afraid that would have caused me even more confusion - never fear,
you cant help Me being blonde


as for the next pic wait and see if woad&fangs can find a decent city
(takes me a couple of hours sometimes)

cheers

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Well, it's been a good few hours since woad&fangs has gone, so I guess I'll post one...

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woad: The next one I get right is all yours, if you want it.

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[Sigurd]

EMFM's city looks suspiciously like those found in Switzerland, but I know when searching for Louis' Swiss city that this architecture is also found in and around the North of the Balkan.

No time to actually do a seach myself...

[Sigurd]

Ok...

I realise that I was a little off... but not that far.
Is it Nürnberg, Germany?

[KukriKhan]

Ok...

I realise that I was a little off... but not that far.
Is it Nürnberg, Germany?

Good eye, Sigurd. That image was so tightly cropped, it only just barely included the city's distinguishing features (Pegnitz River, Kaiserberg, town center).

What a tease, Evil Maniac...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Good eye, Sigurd. That image was so tightly cropped, it only just barely included the city's distinguishing features (Pegnitz River, Kaiserberg, town center).

What a tease, Evil Maniac...

I do my best.

Congrats to Sigurd, you had the general area down almost instantly. You're up next.

[Sigurd]

This city has been inhabited several times. The first time being 2000 BC and the last time in the 16th century.

[barocca]

Tell Hadidi

[Sigurd]

Tell Hadidi

Finally a visitor... Alas, sorry no dice.

Other clues?
- 21 percent of its inhabitants were not born there.
- At least two nations have colonised this place.

[barocca]

snap!

and i take it that means it IS inhabited currently?

B.

[barocca]

Other clues?
- 21 percent of its inhabitants were not born there.
- At least two nations have colonised this place.

honestly there's not too much in those clues to help narrow the choices...
(i got nothing new to suggest in locales)

[Sigurd]

honestly there's not too much in those clues to help narrow the choices...
(i got nothing new to suggest in locales)

Alright...
I shall give you a golden clue:
- A major part of its inhabitants consists of an indigenous people.

[barocca]

you are becomming a giver of tricky clues, and i am going to sleep on these ones
(a google of key words from these clues gathers (just on the first page) Siberia, Turkey, Fiji, Mexico/New Spain, Australia, Greece, Kenya, France and HongKong)
good night evil fiend...i mean old friend...

[Louis VI the Fat]

I found it. It's Nuuk in Greenland.

[Sigurd]

Easy. It was the first city I checked: Nuuk in Greenland.

...
You are just too clever Louis.
I was sure barocca would get it with my last clue.

I am sorry if my clues yield no google.com results. I am trying to give clues that does not give it away instantly and maybe they instead become too cryptic.

I could have mentioned Viking settlements in 1000 AD or the misconseption that this people have 100 words for snow.

[Myrddraal]

Those clues would have been good I think. It wouldn't have given the city from google, but it would have given the region

[Louis VI the Fat]

Question:

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Some clues to get you going:

This city was founded in the 20th century
It is build next to a much older city

[Sigurd]

instagniz... (Instantly recognized).

I was going to use this city in one of my previous turns.
It wouldn't be fair to solve this without letting others get a chance.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

It looked very Middle Eastern to me, so first I looked at Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon, and continued south.

The answer is Tel Aviv.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The next city:

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[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Wow...if nobody gets close in a couple more hours, I'll post a little hint...

[KukriKhan]

Wow...if nobody gets close in a couple more hours, I'll post a little hint...

I'm ready for one

I see a soccer pitch at bottom, a park-like area near the top (actually looks like a memorial-type area; I'd expect to see statues there, on the ground).

What is that red line at top? A border artifact? Pipeline?

The left and right areas are 'fuzzy', so I guess we see several images pasted together. The water is quite blue, so I think we see a deep-water port city, not an inland one.

I don't see enough red or blue roofs to conclusively pick a continent - but my best guess is: northern/eastern Europe/western asia, like Russia-Poland-Ukraine-Latvia area.

Yeah; a tiny hint would be good.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I'm ready for one

I see a soccer pitch at bottom, a park-like area near the top (actually looks like a memorial-type area; I'd expect to see statues there, on the ground).

What is that red line at top? A border artifact? Pipeline?

The left and right areas are 'fuzzy', so I guess we see several images pasted together. The water is quite blue, so I think we see a deep-water port city, not an inland one.

I don't see enough red or blue roofs to conclusively pick a continent - but my best guess is: northern/eastern Europe/western asia, like Russia-Poland-Ukraine-Latvia area.

Yeah; a tiny hint would be good.

Not just a soccer pitch but a stadium. Park with memorial has a ballustrade out over the river. Yet only across the way is a railyard plopped in the middle of things a bit eye-sore like.

I agree with the deep-water theory.

Roof-wise, there are a number of concrete block buildings that make me thing of the classic Soviet apartment block -- so I think that you're on the right track.

St. Petersburg or Talinn?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Here are some hints for you.

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[Tristuskhan]

Irkutsk! Anyone who wants to post the next, can!

Those hints were precious, I first had a look at Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk na Amourie, Harbin....
Then Irkoutsk. Even if the tigers live much further east.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Then Irkoutsk. Even if the tigers live much further east.

Good job. The tiger hint referred to an old emblem of the city, the Siberian tiger.

I'll wait for someone else to take the next one, I've already had two almost in a row.

[The Receptionist]

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100k+ population


does anyone else feel like they are going to fall off the bottom of that image when they look at it???