Guess the City

edmonton

Moscow?

those houses in the foreground look canadian

not hilly enough for lisbon actually. but i reckon it's european

Scandinavian or Baltic, I reckon.

i know what it is now - but i wont say cause i used internet trickery to figure it out

Pines in foreground plus architecture make me think Soviet-land or possibly Pyongyang.

tashkent then

Helsinki? There's a low-rent casino-spire on the left and a church-thing on the right that makes me think Orthodox nation, but it ain't Athens or such. Hmm.

The houses in the foreground don't look very Soviet.

Just about to say Helsiniki?

xpost True, I would peg them as Scandanavian...

If they are houses!!!

I was thinking helsinki, but I just don't recall any tower blocks like that, and I don't think it is Kuopio or Tampere. Espoo?

My initial thought was Gothenburg - pretty sure it isn't, but that was what put me on the Scandinavia track.

Bratislava?

this game is too difficult

I've been to Bratislava, it didn't much look like that.

Arkhangelsk?

Not hilly enough I guess. Could be central European though.

budapest?

Deffo not hilly enough!

somewhere in former GDR that isn't Berlin ?

i'm guessing that it ain't Europe

ok is THAT one warsaw?

houses look n. american

Yeah I was thinking E. Europe but that's true about the houses.

it looks a little Northern Virginia-y, except more communistic-like

I'm guessing non-Toronto Ontario.. like London, Ontario.. or Petersborough?

xp - my first thought was "somewhere in Alberta" too, but it doesn't look tundra-ey enough.

This one's a bit hard, isn't it? I ended up cheating too and even then I had to zoom out about six times on google maps to find out what country it's in

it looks a little Northern Virginia-y, except more communistic-like

That's what I thought, too, like Shirlington except not enough freeway, or somewhere in western Ffx County.

how on earth did you cheat on that?

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer

A woman after my own heart.

googling part of the url leads (eventually) to the original flickr image xp

ok cheaters, tell us so we can move on to a less boring image

or give us a good hint

*ngghh* I just can't do it, man. I will say that a couple of the answers have been very close, though

wtf that is way too hard

A bunch of people were close upthread all saying similar things (v good deduction i thought!)

i thought people were about to get it but then others went off on a tangent

#6 http://i36.tinypic.com/rlizo8.jpg

it's definitely scandinavian xpost jakarta

http://www.bram.us/2008/01/12/my-priceless-flickr-tip-how-to-find-the-original-flickr-photo-url-and-user-from-a-static-flickr-image-url/

How to find the original Flickr Photo URL and User from a Static Flickr Image URL/Permalink

From the URL you’ve got take extract the image name (2177060015_258bcfaff9_m.jpg) and split it on the underscore. The first part is the photoID, the second part is the hash/salt and (if there) the third part the size (Full format: photoId_hash_size.jpg).

Now append that photoId to http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id= and *MAGIC* there you have it, the Original Flickr Photo URL (and the user) :)

can't view tinypic stuff at work :(

lithuania

Just for you, Granny Dainger

thanks!

bland, delapidated high rise=E. Europe or S. America?

White buildings = hot = not E. Europe

guess the continent is nearly hard enough for some of these