Guess the City

OMG! Well done! I had given up.

view 3 https://goo.gl/maps/dFDygZEP5D6sEzr4A

I want to find that symbol on the building in front of the left hand chimney, looks like a yellow M, near impossible without the 3d. map though.

view 2 https://goo.gl/maps/A4QLoSNghNDUPgFfA

maybe that's the original McDonalds M

view 4 https://goo.gl/maps/sUvkeS9Jw2T81CA66

found it: https://goo.gl/maps/5ut569FyZocbbtQy8

and view 1 https://goo.gl/maps/8yPe792uM7WBJicf6

xpost - nice one! zoomed out, that does look like the McD golden arches, doesn't it

xpost: nevermind view 1, that was the one Ledge posted

kudos, ledge! was this the longest it ever took to solve one?

I'm happy to report the building in pic 1 can indeed be found in the Tower Block UK database that I've been consulting every time a promising-sounding city was mentioned:
https://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/development/ebenezer-square

Ah good, glad someone finally got it. What was your path to it, ledge?

clicking through 14 pages (out of 25) of 368 photos tagged 'church with square tower': https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=168441618&page=14

a proper database of uk churches would have been helpful.

Ha wow, all off the first pic we didn't even need the others!

> a proper database of uk churches would have been helpful

i'm pretty sure there is one - i remember reading something about church near home and it was stupidly detailed, like someone had been around and taken notes.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1153103?section=official-list-entry

"Anglican parish church. C12, C13, late C14, and C15, restored 1889 and 1931, small mid-late C20 extension. Nave; random limestone. Clerestory; coursed squared and finely dressed limestone and sandstone. South porch and tower; large blocks coursed finely dressed limestone. Artificial stone slate roof to chancel. Leaded roof to nave. Red tile roof to C12 nave with C15 clerestory. Nave south wall; two raking buttresses (possibly added C14). Narrow C12 round-headed window with cable moulding at top. Early studded plank door with strap hinges and later fillets within a pointed casement-moulded surround within porch..."

x 10

no searching via architectural style or features though (looks like the tower block database doesn't have that either.)

ledge your go choose rome or paris or something.

lost city of gold pls

atlantis looks a little rough around the edges

not as grim as wensley upon heathshire though, at least there are blue skies

brb, googling 3d maps of middle earth.

I can post a (real) one tomorrow.

OMG - someone on Twitter posted a picture of some cobbled street and I googled the shop name in the background to find out where it was and it was only bloody KEIGHLEY, NR BRADFORD! I don't deserve to post on this thread :(

#1

https://i.imgur.com/nHEdMvC.jpg

technical difficulties...

https://i.imgur.com/BbOiVnS.jpg

Kishoreganj, Bangladesh?

thats right

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.4399936,90.7760848,3a,75y,130.04h,87.93t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPu5O6yQc0GDTvZHbV-F2t1mKHZ4HsCK98Kmexk!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPu5O6yQc0GDTvZHbV-F2t1mKHZ4HsCK98Kmexk%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya154.02943-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

wtf!

lol nice

i officially retire in perpetuity from setting these, it's back to you cherry blossom.

also, how?

I didn't guess the city, zelda zonk did, I'd never even heard of it!

I just went to a satellite map of the city and went to where the water was

lol

Bit of a cheat really. I put the pic into Google lens which threw up other pics of watch towers, one of which was remarkably similar looking...

I don't have time right now to post a pic, if someone else wants to have a go you're welcome, otherwise I'll post something tomorrow.

Love this long running game btw, thanks to cherry blossom for keeping it ticking over...

https://i.ibb.co/VYcXFK3/nottingham.jpg

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Monrovia:

https://www.google.com/maps/@6.319949,-10.8019046,3a,75y,220.35h,96.53t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipMCMdcpTgyHm3e0iPwtnSax1t9wKSwkhN0fwkUs!2e10!3e11!7i7680!8i3840

what gave it away?

I snipped those two distincitve tall buildings and put them into Google Lens, it was the first hit

I'm not so into setting these so someone else can kindly proceed

Hmmmm, is Google lens ruining our game? I suggest the next person who puts one up checks first that there's no obvious google lens giveaway

Or we just agree not to use it.

Or we just agree that it's a perfectly fair way to get the answer.

we've been reverse image searching bits of these photos for years

we have? :-)

I haven't! I assumed it was CHEATING!

Other than the previous two cities, I feel like this hasn't played much of a role? Keighley took 4 photos, and feels like most of the previous cities took some time to get also

For the most part it feels uncommon for a city to get guessed quickly, these being something of an exception. Maybe because two in a row?

Still seems like a bit of a cheat to just go 'computer, where is this city?'

https://i.ibb.co/BgtZtKp/Screenshot-2022-11-07-at-11-22-18.png

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Well google lens is certainly no help! Pretty thin selection of beer in this cafe. The balloons give me an Asian vibe but any script I can see looks Latin. The packets of stuff on the counter look a bit Italian.

The window appears to say gelado or perhaps helado - portuguese/spanish?

the Pilsen beer brand is Paraguayan

Ulaanbaatar

The S to the right of the fridge is the logo of the cafe.