and you know if you boil down the body of the clues to basic words,
and google them
and mix and match a little bit
this city is in the country that appears about 1/3 of the time as one of the top two,
and the other is always History of Finland
B.
Re: Google Earth: Identify the city
and you know if you boil down the body of the clues to basic words,
and google them
and mix and match a little bit
this city is in the country that appears about 1/3 of the time as one of the top two,
and the other is always History of Finland
B.
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Re : Google Earth: Identify the city
Those are fine clues, Barocca. I was away for the weekend so I didn't get to post until just now. Here is a photoclue to your city:
What I actually meant was, that we could change the rules so that not the person who guesses a city posts the next one, but rather anyone who wishes to post a city. We could go with your idea and put up several cities at the same time, to make this game more fun. I think that is what you mean (well, what I think you think I meant)
Las Vegas? Do you realise how well known that place is outside of America?Originally Posted by Discovery1
It is an icon, a global symbol, perhaps, even more so outside of America than within. It is as recognisable as the canals of Venice or the pyramids of Egypt.
Btw, if you have any more pictures that you'd like to have us guessing about, I wouldn't mind you posting them. I'm quite curious to see what you come up with.
Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 08-12-2007 at 21:16.
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English-speaking small town of a former colony, that has changed names in the last 100 years.
Most of those countries would be in Africa. Fewer in Asia. Very small number in Europe.
Standing military of foreigners... now THAT's an interesting clue.
To the image itself: it's virtually featureless, except for the gov't/military-looking set of buildings and parade field in the lower right. The white-ish buildings north of those look either gov't or hotel. Roads are paved, and there's plenty of traffic (mostly cars). Bottom left shows "angle parking", vs parallell.
I see some, but not many, individual houses, so either folks live in apartment buildings, or we see a buisness/industrial area (seems to conflict with a pop <100K).
Dunno.
Hope that helps someone, 'cause it certainly leads me in circles.
edit: Louis provides palm trees as a clue. Yikes!
edit II: wild-ass guess: Okrika, Nigeria, in the area briefly known as Biafra.
Last edited by KukriKhan; 08-12-2007 at 22:05.
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Better guess: Belize City, Belize.
Geez, the time I wasted in Africa, LoL
I don't have a city picked out yet, so if someone has one on-hand, please feel free to throw it up here.
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aw nuts kukri,
my next clue was to have been
"this city is no longer part of Honduras"...
but i was delayed getting here!
btw, if you look at the san jose pic and belize you will spot some similarities!
on and
conquerors = conqusitadores (which would have lead straight to the south america's)
thats why i mentioned the word at the end of two consecutive sentences,
when i do something cheesy like that it most likely a clue!
(and their standing army is the english army, supposedly "training bases and camps")
Last edited by barocca; 08-12-2007 at 23:22.
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Re: Google Earth: Identify the city
and the google clue,
where i said "give the game away"
neighbour abrogated treaty road
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Yeah; the 'name-change', 'foreign army' & palm trees clues did it for me - tho' not directly. The other clues served to confirm, after I'd found the likely country/continent. I spent a bunch o'time touring Africa, and found that any city/town less than 500K pop. was low-rez, and not probably your choice.
Next assignment (since no one jumped at it):
Image is taken from a mere 1500 feet, so might need more context, which I'll gladly provide if folks are stumped.
This city of 400,000+ souls, was first mentioned on maps in 1154, so it's been around a good while. It has been in the news within the last 3 months. It's both a capital and port city.
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Sorry to interrupt, thought I'd take a whack at it.
Tallinn, Estonia?
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Totally, indisputeably, unimpairedly, and quickly...
correct.
Take it away GH!!
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OK. Just wanted to unashamedly claim the 1,000th post.
Dibs!!
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wow, he's good...
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No un solved city? ...
Come on, it has been a while since I have been able to put two minuttes of my schedule to do a little google earth.
GH?
...
I guess it is still night there.
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Pending GH's city...
Here are something for the impatient:
clues:
- This city housed a famous pilot training school and some of today's world leaders trained there.
- It has changed name three times.
- German POW built the train station (rephrased)
- +600K
Last edited by Sigurd; 08-13-2007 at 14:30.
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clues?
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Too impatient my friend...
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i'm going sleep
i see america - west coast
cheers
B.
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Re: Google Earth: Identify the city
Bratislava?
I'll post my pic in a minute.
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"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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Re: Google Earth: Identify the city
Okay, here we go. Apologies if this has been posted before.
Clues: This city's country is something of an anomaly when compared with the surrounding area.
This city is the third-largest, population-wise, in the country.
"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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I see a western looking city.
It has roundabouts and a traffic machine in the building.
The sea appears to be on the west side.
The shadows indicates that we are in the southern hemisphere.
I can't judge whether the traffic is left handed.
The clues indicate that we might find ourselves on a continent sourrounded by developing contries? Maybe South America or Africa?
Third largest city... It is not Brisbane because I have lived there and don't recognise it.
Lot's of outdoor amd large parking space is disfavouring Asia.
I can't think of any city that matches...
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You are correct about it not being Brisbane.
Was Bratislava correct for your last pic, Sigurd?
"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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This city has already been posted. But GHs picture shows a different part of it.
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Bratislava is not correct...
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Alright Louis... If you take both the unsolved cities, you get a bonus point.This city has already been posted. But GHs picture shows a different part of it.
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Would I ever dissapoint you?
Bishkek, Kirgistan and Cape Town, South Africa.
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Ah... Never even tried Cape Town.Would I ever dissapoint you?
Bishkek, Kirgistan and Cape Town, South Africa.
Bishkek is correct.
What gave it away?
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a quickie
(had a very very very bad day - humour me)
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
i was supposed to be an airport complex,
somehow, when no-one was looking, i became this...
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it seems that more residents owns boats than cars
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***Bah, I had hoped to get lucky with Miami, but I can't find the area.
***Shall we try and have several pictures up at the same time then? To serve the impatient? Or won't that work, will it be too confusing?
Here is a second question, to try and see how it goes:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Clues? No clues yet!
The clues gave Bishkek away, Sigurd. My Google-fu led me to it. I think I simply tried 'German prisoner war pilot school' or something. Bishkek came out straight on top. I never would've thought of Kyrgystan myself, I actually thought it was guessed correctly as Bratislava.
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We've been playing this game for 5 months, and over 1,000 posts, so I thought we might be interested in a roll-up summary of where we've been.
Under the spoiler is: Presenter - city & country - correct guesser, for those interested:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Here is an alphabetical list of our presented cities, so far:
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LoL. no cities yet for letters:
e
j
o
q
x
y
z
edit: added alpha list
Last edited by KukriKhan; 08-14-2007 at 21:25.
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Re: Google Earth: Identify the city
mine is one of those letters!!!!
north is up - north is always up in my cities, this game is hard enough already
it has a fake lighthouse, it does not need a lighthouse but someone thought it would be cute, built it as part of some "county club for boaties" and i think there is some sort of restaraunt thingy up there nowadays
Louis city - northern hemisphere...maybe as far north as canada...
(Vancouver has those shadow lengths)
Last edited by barocca; 08-14-2007 at 21:55.
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