Guess the City

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?

This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?

I was thinking upstate NY.

Damn I thought it was Legoland...

If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.

Ithaca?

Casper?

it's in the Western US

Vegas

it's about the size of Pittsfield, MA

or Casper, WY (which it isn't)

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

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Haha, you just described Canada without knowing it.

Yakima, WA!
I give up.

closer

rapid city?

Everett

rapid city is way bigger than Pittsfield
xp

corvallis then

so is Everett, apparently

cherry blossom wins

#4.http://i34.tinypic.com/xq9set.jpg

i'll say kiev again

sofia

Legoland

I'd say somewhere in asia, maybe india. Chennai?

that looks oriental to me.

bangkok

For such a densely packed in place, it looks a bit Day Of The Triffids. No one in the park, no cars visible on the street. Can't see what the sign says, but it looks more likely to be in Roman script, not Japanese or Chinese.

Not New World, somehow not European-looking, I'd guess India, although that doesn't quite seem right either.

xpost yes maybe Bangkok

its not bangkok

Hanoi?

No, Saigon

Pretty much! Also had a bad experience with a bike-hating dog (who wasn't on a lead) in there. Still London's best park tho imo.

Cressingham Gardens it is! Quite a difficult one to pick for, felt it might be too easy and too difficult at same time

i got distracted with all the Wimbledon talk

This does raise the question of where the OP's photograph comes from. The detail in the top-left is fascinating. It looks like part of a graphic element, or some kind of border - like how old film negatives used to have a border - but it's too regular to be analogue.

Tim at 11:39 29 Jul 24

(This also felt like inner burbs from the start, I didn't think it would be any further out than (say) Catford, and no further in than Camberwell.)

oh lol i uh... should have got this let's say, though that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

this pic 2 ?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Urd2RKcdiGmKJTHG8

yes! thanks Stan! I mean I've walked down there. Not a lot, but, y'know, more than once. Embarrassing.

that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

― Fizzles

I think it's looking roughly South-west and the town centre-ish set of lights you can see in the middle distance is probably Streatham.

...middle distance on the left, I mean

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4464383,-0.1090972,3a,75y,119.06h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipORbn7ai6nVC59U-yRz9vfMQGXoPHzlgC9BRIZp!2e10!3e11!7i8192!8i4096?coh=205410&entry=ttu

360 of the nighttime elevation

So that answers it. It's a screengrab of a Google photosphere. The things in the top-left corner are the Google search box and the title card.

Images like this really remind me of why I dislike the environmental movement. We evolved away from living in trees, and now it is our destiny to burn the boats and forge a new world. Our future will be neon lights at night, as in Blade Runner. I remember being entranced by that film as a child. Living in the countryside I was struck by the contrast between the neon beauty of Blade Runner and the awful reality of mud and rotten sheep corpses. That and Lessons of Darkness. Gouts of flame, not trees.

Triangles and squares, not circles. We will learn to live without trees. We must teach ourselves to hate them.

The complete opposite of 'tears in the rain', there.

I mean turn 180 on that photosphere and the big dark expanse is, as mentioned above, one of London's largest most attractive multi-use parks but lol go off my replidude :)

this is the Cité Moderne, a neighborhood built in 1922-1925, by architect Victor Bourgeois: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bourgeois

― StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:30 (two years ago)

I had a quick wander around the Cité Moderne yesterday. It obviously has the bones of a beautiful modernist estate but it's in a dreadful condition - lots of boarded up homes, render in a poor state pretty much all over. Stan, do you have any insight into what's happening with it? It's heartbreaking.

Renovation plans are finally starting to see the light - https://bma.brussels/en/cite-moderne/

Plus also, Sint-Agatha-Berchem bought a vacant lot to build a new community center, hoping it will help revive the neighbourhood. (The vacant lot was first going to house a 5-story building but inhabitants protested and the independent promotor who had those plans left & it's from him the community bought the land last year)

that community center news is only in Dutch here: https://www.bruzz.be/stedenbouw/sint-agatha-berchem-plant-nieuw-gemeenschapscentrum-cite-moderne-gamechanger-2023-08-24

Thanks - that’s reassuring.

Pretty easy so far but I'm not complaining

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