***Where am I now?*** (game)

[tomd]

I cheated...sort of.
I googled "6015 railroad" and it popped up as the first hit!

Do you have another to post? that really wasn't very nice of me ;-)

Tom

[Mgdh]

Nah, it's all good. Google's helped me in the past :o

Go ahead and post.

[tomd]

OK, here is the next one::lol:

[Roy Mathers]

Miami?

[bkw]

Oahu?

[Jostel]

Los Angeles?

[sugarzebra]

I'm not sure where but they shouldn't put the freeway next to the beach :D

[tomd]

Miami?
Nope
Oahu?
Not Oahu, but That is a great city!
Los Angeles?
Not LA (but closer than Oahu)
I'm not sure where but they shouldn't put the freeway next to the beach :D
I agree!

[Jostel]

San Diego??

[tomd]

San Diego??

Nope

[Jostel]

Seattle??

[tomd]

Seattle??

Nope

[<AkulA>]

Hahaha Jostel - we don't have sand, just bigass rocks on our beaches! LoL

[tomd]

Hahaha Jostel - we don't have sand, just bigass rocks on our beaches! LoL

B:
How did you edit this post (above) without the gray "edited xx:xx" line appearing?

???

[Jostel]

Awww, sorry about the lack of sand on your beaches. Being a Jersey girl myself, I have never had the privilege of going to the west coast!!!!!!!!!:oops:

Is it on the US coastline???

[tomd]

The picture is in the US!

[<AkulA>]

B:
How did you edit this post (above) without the gray "edited xx:xx" line appearing?

???

Hahha, just edited it without adding a reason! ^^ I guess I've been caught! :oops:

Awww, sorry about the lack of sand on your beaches. Being a Jersey girl myself, I have never had the privilege of going to the west coast!!!!!!!!!:oops:

Is it on the US coastline???

Haha, I don't know if you can consider laying on an uncomfortable rocky beach a privilege! LoL - they sure are pretty here tho!

[Jostel]

totally guessing, ya know!!!!!

Portland?

[Mgdh]

Judging by the shadows, somewhere on the Eastern seaboard?

[Roy Mathers]

Galveston, Texas?

[tomd]

totally guessing, ya know!!!!!

Portland?
Not Portland

Judging by the shadows, somewhere on the Eastern seaboard?
A little vague, but in fact, incorrect.
Galveston, Texas?
Nope.

OK time for a clue:
according to a city distance tool I found on the web: the distance from the mystery city to the previous guesses of LA, Seattle and San Diego is within 16 miles of each other. In other words the mystery city is almost exactly the same distance from LA, Seattle and San Diego.
Galveston is the closest guess yet! Eastern seaboard is too general to give a distance reference.

[bkw]

Chicago?

[tomd]

Chicago?

we have a (drum roll) ..................................WINNER!!!!!

This pic was taken from the top of the John Hancock building.

[tomd]

I had the question: Is it on the US coastline?(post #465) I didn't exactly know how to accurately answer that, so I tip toed around it and answered "it is in the US"

This is fun.
Tom

[bkw]

Cool, I was born in Chicago but havent been back since 1973!

184890
This one may be a bit tough since there arent that many markers so I'll give a couple hints.

hint #1 - Government Building
hint #2 - The murals depict key events in this small nations history


Good luck!

[tomd]

Puerto Rico?

[bkw]

Wow! Perhaps I didnt need to post the hints afterall!!

Correct! El Capitolio.

[Scorpio]

Puerto Rico?

I'll second that =)

[edit] Bah, too slow. I spent too much time looking up Puerto Rico's coat of arms, which is pictured on the mural.

[tomd]

Holy Cow, that was a super lucky guess!
I noticed that fort looking building in the mural and I vaguely remember a similar building in Puerto Rico when I was there 15 years ago for travel.

[tomd]

How about this:

[ayman86]

why is it when the easy ones are out, im not here!!!

i knew the chicago one!!! :(

[tomd]

why is it when the easy ones are out, im not here!!!

i knew the chicago one!!! :(

We plan it that way. when your "green" light is out, we all post easy ones. When your green light is ON, we switch over to hard pictures.

[Mgdh]

No guesses yet?

I have no idea but I'll start the ball rolling.
Cars look slightly more European than American (although it's getting harder to tell).
Architecture - if it is Europe - looks like Germany. (can you tell I'm clutching at straws here ;):lol:)

Hamburg?

[tomd]

Nope,
wrong side of the Atlantic

[Mgdh]

Well, there goes all my reasoning ;):lol::lol:

[GeoffSobering]

Smithsonian building on the mall in Washington, DC?

[tomd]

Smithsonian building on the mall in Washington, DC?


Ding..Winner!
It's an interesting building. I have better shots of it, but I though they would be too easy! Nice job. You're up.

[tomd]

Geoff,
Where are you in Madison?

[thomascanty]

How did you edit this post (above) without the gray "edited xx:xx" line appearing?

You can edit your messages for the first minute or so after you post them without that line getting tacked onto the bottom. ;)

See. I just edited twice.

[tomd]

sneaky!

[GeoffSobering]

Well, I actually prepared a bit this time, and dug into my archives for some photos from a trip I took a couple of years ago. I apologize for the abstract/artsy style; I wish I'd just taken a snapshot of the place, but I got caught up by the architecture.

Here are two shots, one from inside and another from outside.

[GeoffSobering]

No guesses at all? :confused:

[Roy Mathers]

I think it's because everyone is baffled! I'll guess Chicago.

[tomd]

Looks like a gov. building..I'll guess Dept. of Interior in Washington DC?

[GeoffSobering]

I think it's because everyone is baffled!
D'oh! Now I really wish I just had a "regular" photo of the silly place...

I'll guess Chicago.
Not exactly; it's in the same section of the country...

Here are some hints:

It's not anywhere near a city ("out in the middle of nowhere" is a pretty good description).
It's in the US midwest.
You can see this place from a commercial airliner at cruising altitude.
The building is named after a famous American and the facility is named for a famous Italian (famous in their field, at least).


Here's a shot of the from the top floor looking down at the entrance area.

[tomd]

Can I google famous American and Famous Italian? ;)
Those clues should spark someones memory.
\
Does the shape in the lawn represent anything significant?

[GeoffSobering]

Looks like a gov. building..I'll guess Dept. of Interior in Washington DC?

Gov. building - sort of - it's funded by tax dollars.
Washington, DC - nope. About 700 miles (1100 km) mostly west from there.

[GeoffSobering]

Does the shape in the lawn represent anything significant?
Yes. I believe it's the Greek letter "Pi".

[GeoffSobering]

Not too mislead with the "middle of nowhere" comment. I just checked Google Maps, and it's about 20 miles (50 km) from the nearest large city.

[tomd]

is this in Iowa?

[GeoffSobering]

is this in Iowa?
No, it's west east of Iowa.

[edit: west, east; left, right; port, starboard - aghhhh...:o ]

[tomd]

No, it's west of Iowa.

west of iowa? Isn't that the PAcific Ocean? :lol: :lol:

OK, must be like Nebraska or S. Dakota?

[GeoffSobering]

west of iowa? Isn't that the PAcific Ocean? :lol: :lol:
OK, must be like Nebraska or S. Dakota?

Arrgghhh... My brain just can't seem to work correctly today.

I meant to write EAST of Iowa (the "other west"). So sorry.

To compensate, I'll add the clue that the nearby city is Chicago, and the Italian (mentioned above) is perhaps best known for some work he did there in a squash court.

[Scorpio]

Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois =D

[GeoffSobering]

Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois =D

THAT'S IT! :D

You're up!

[Scorpio]

That was fun =)

I'm looking at the Google sattelite view of the place, man it's impressive!

I won't be anywhere near my photos for a looong time, so to avoid holding everything up *again*, I'll open it up to whoever has the quickest fingers to put up another one.

[ayman86]

here you go
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1597/img5526yz2.jpg

[GeoffSobering]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL?

The two towers in the background look familar...

[tomd]

a big green roller coaster;) :lol:

[ayman86]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL?

The two towers in the background look familar...

lol. yeah. it was rather easy.

[GeoffSobering]

OK, Here's one that should (?) be easy...

Nowhere near Madison, Chicago, or Iowa (but also nowhere near any coast or border, either...).

I will say it's in the US.

[ayman86]

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside, Ohio

[GeoffSobering]

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside, Ohio

7 minutes! :cool: I think that's a new record!

To be specific, it's the lobby of the Air Force Museum at ...

You're "it"!

[ayman86]

somone can go for me. i dont have that many pics outside of chicago. lol

[Roy Mathers]

I'll step in for Ayman, if nobody minds - how about this?

[grumpyhaggis]

Jordan?

[Roy Mathers]

Yes - well done. But where?

[Mgdh]

Petra?

[Roy Mathers]

Spot on. Off you go!

[Mgdh]

I must stop trying to guess these, I'm running out of shots to post ;)

Here's another scan of a print, taken in 1998

[Roy Mathers]

That looks, for some reason I can't justify, as if it should be in Canada. Is it in British Columbia?

[Mgdh]

Good call. But BC is a big area...

[Roy Mathers]

Vancouver?

[<AkulA>]

Victoria? (That is BC right? LoL) Pretty bad I don't know that, and I'm pretty damn close!

[Mgdh]

Vancouver?

Victoria? (That is BC right? LoL) Pretty bad I don't know that, and I'm pretty damn close!

Sorry, Nope.

Further to the east.

[Roy Mathers]

Whistler?

[Mgdh]

Whistler?

Further East again, up the Fraser valley.

[Roy Mathers]

Kamloops?

[Mgdh]

Too far east now.

This place describes itself as the 'chainsaw carving capital of Canada'

[Roy Mathers]

Hope, British Columbia

[Mgdh]

Hope, British Columbia

Right on the money :D

Sorry for the delay - weekends tend to be busy with family stuff.

You're up.

[Roy Mathers]

I must say you practically led me to it Mark.

Here's one for you folks to ponder over.

[tomd]

Is this Mexico City, Mexico?

[bara03]

Barcelona?

[Roy Mathers]

Barcelona?

You've either got great detective work or you've been there. Either way, you're right. Well done.

You're on!

[bara03]

Yep I've been to Barcelona, it was about 3 and a half years ago.

I will post an image later on when I can get to my FTP server.

[bara03]

Try this one:

http://htdocs.homecall.co.uk/POTN/DSCF0026.jpg

Sorry about the size of the picture, for some reason I'm having a funny 5 minutes and can't seem to get the picture smaller.

[Roy Mathers]

Could this be Amsterdam?

[bara03]

Could this be Amsterdam?

Yep, How did you guess so quick??? :)

[Roy Mathers]

I've been there, a year or two ago, and I seem to remember that building that I believe is meant to represent the bow of a ship.

Anyway, I've had a dig around and here's another one to be getting on with.

[tomd]

Montreal Botanical Gardens?

[Roy Mathers]

You're in the right part of the globe - that's all I'll say at the moment.

[tomd]

Royal botanical Gardens, Burlington Ontario?

[Roy Mathers]

What makes you think it's Canada?

[tomd]

Clean fresh air, big tall virgin timber, tourists with hockey sticks.

[Roy Mathers]

Your thinking is good (although I can't see the hockey sticks!) - you're in the right country.

[tomd]

Now I'm getting somewhere. There can't be more than a few thousand gardens in Canada.

[Mgdh]

Gaa. You had me thinking North America for a minute, rather than my immediate thought which was:

Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Vancouver Island.

[Roy Mathers]

Well, Vancouver Island is technicall North America - and you're right again! Butchart Gardens it is. You're very smart for a Cornishman:lol:

[Mgdh]

Eeek. Now I've got to find another shot. And I was going to find one I took in Butchart Gardens when I was there a few years ago ;) Now I need to look deeper!

[Roy Mathers]

You're getting left out here, Tomd!

[tomd]

I'm just lurking, getting ready for a swift win on the next pic!
Tom

[Mgdh]

Ok, lets see how long this one takes.

http://newquay-plus.co.uk/POTN/where06.jpg

[tomd]

I'm thinking.......

[Mgdh]

Well, Vancouver Island is technicall North America - and you're right again! Butchart Gardens it is. You're very smart for a Cornishman:lol:

:lol: Not that smart - I made the connection. I was thinking of the USA. North America does indeed include Canada :o :lol:

I must remember to engage my brain before using my keyboard ;):lol:

[SoccerRef]

Well, I have no idea on this one, but I had to chime in after being gone for 9 days! I can't believe there are now 16 pages for me to flip through, although I did do a quick glance and I knew the Chicago Skyline one...

Unfortunately, I came back to work and have hundreds of emails to sort through, about 8 reports that need approval, and about 10 inches of invoices to approve. (Unlike the week before I left, I have plenty of work right now, so playing will have to wait!)

Maybe I'll post again later tonight.

[tomd]

Welcome back SoccerRef.....have fun with the paperwork!

[Roy Mathers]

SoccerRef - never mind the reports, invoices and e-mails. What's more important? You've been missed here;)

[Roy Mathers]

Mark - that's just got to be in the USA!

[tomd]

Can anyone tell if the structure in the background is a bridge, gaurdrail or a building?

[Mgdh]

Yes, it is in the USA. What gives it away?

[tomd]

Yes, it is in the USA. What gives it away?

clean pristine water, smooth pre-iceage rocks and the McDonalds bag!

Just kidding. ;) I have no idea!

[Roy Mathers]

I'll start the guessing by saying that I reckon it's in one of the northern states, like Montana or Wyoming.

[SoccerRef]

ok. After seeing this and working through a few things, a thought came to me and I have to take a Guess. I think this is a famous landmark that has just been photographed from a very unusual angle.

Is this the Frank Lloyd Wright "Fallingwater" house in PA?

[Roy Mathers]

Good thinking, SoccerRef - I agree. You see, isn't this better than invoices etc!

[Mgdh]

I'll start the guessing by saying that I reckon it's in one of the northern states, like Montana or Wyoming.

Sorry, nope.

ok. After seeing this and working through a few things, a thought came to me and I have to take a Guess. I think this is a famous landmark that has just been photographed from a very unusual angle.

Is this the Frank Lloyd Wright "Fallingwater" house in PA?

No. See above ;) But in the correct side of the country.

Sigh. My geography of the States is bad. I need to check on Wikipedia where these guesses are to be sure I've giving the right answers!

[Roy Mathers]

I assume you took this picture - can't you remember which side of the country you were on?:lol:

[Mgdh]

I assume you took this picture - can't you remember which side of the country you were on?:lol:

:lol: Yup. I took the pic, and I can remember where I was. :D I just don't know where most other states are in relation to this place with any certainty so I need to check on Wikipedia where they are :o

[Roy Mathers]

Tomd - are you still thinking?

[Mgdh]

I've got to get some sleep now. I'll check back in the morning :D

[Scorpio]

I'll take an utter shot in the dark and say somewhere in Virginia... ?

[Mgdh]

I'll take an utter shot in the dark and say somewhere in Virginia... ?

You're getting closer.

POTN's 'Nifty II' would recognise this place.

[Scorpio]

In that case I'd go with either...

Greenville, SC or Charlotte, NC =D

[Mgdh]

In that case I'd go with either...

Greenville, SC or Charlotte, NC =D

Greenville, SC it is :D

Well done, you're up

[Scorpio]

Allright, let's try this one on for size.

http://www.antares-productions.com/personal/photos/wain1.jpg

[thomascanty]

I'm assuming Hawaii is too obvious, so I'll guess Monterey, CA. Maybe the Monterey Bay Aquarium?

[bara03]

Is this is a Wyland mural?

[Scorpio]

Indeed, not Hawaii.

No, not California either.

Yes, it is a Wyland mural!

[jimbro]

Norfolk?

[thomascanty]

Atlanta (http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=pmrsf77z0vvv&style=o&lvl=2&scene=1405941) ;)

[Roy Mathers]

How did you work that out Lonnie?

[thomascanty]

How did you work that out Lonnie?

I Googled "Wyland murals". One of the links I found listed a bunch of his murals with a small thumbnail picture of each one. None of the thumbnails looked like Scorpio's picture, so I just went down the line clicking on each one. Doing that opened up Microsoft's Live Search showing a full view of it. A few clicks later I found the match...

So, should I wait for Scorpio to confirm I'm right, or just go ahead and post the next picture? He's in Hawaii, so he still has a few hours before he wakes up, I'd imagine.

[Roy Mathers]

Fiendishly clever. I also Googled 'Wyland murals' but didn't get as far as you did!

[thomascanty]

Fiendishly clever. I also Googled 'Wyland murals' but didn't get as far as you did!

It did take some work. None of the results on the first page Google returned helped, so I switched to an image search instead. Still couldn't find it there, but I clicked some links on a page I found in there and somehow found the path that eventually led me to that site with the thumbnails.

Anyway, I guess we'll wait for Scorpio to make it official. The server that controls our Internet access here at work crashed right after I posted my last message. I can only get in via my cell phone right now. I have something ready to go for when I'm back online, though...

[Roy Mathers]

I look forward to it!

[Mgdh]

:D Good one Lonnie. Look forward to seeing what you post later after the confirmation. I might have to hold back from guessing for a while - I don't have many more useable shots!

Bit of a pain about the server though :(

[thomascanty]

I might have to hold back from guessing for a while - I don't have many more useable shots!

Bit of a pain about the server though :(

I just got back from the cafeteria and it looks like they fixed the server problem already. We're back up...

Don't be afraid to guess, Mark. If you get it right and don't have anything to post, just say it's free for anyone else to take. They do that in the Super Macro Guessing Game thread all the time.

[tomd]

OK...I'm done thinking. Too late for the last two pic's.

That Wyland was great. I know he is/was working on a whaling wall in each of the 50 states. Once upon a time I thought about trying to photo each of the 50. I thought it would give me a reason to travel and see the countty. Well, kids came along now I go to Disney World and water parks.

[SoccerRef]

Disney and Water parks are much more fun than photographing some buildings...

Thank God for kids... They give us an excuse to act like one!

[thomascanty]

I don't have kids, but I'm at Disneyland almost every week... ;)

[Roy Mathers]

I've been to all fifty of the states - and I didn't have Wyland as an excuse:D

[SoccerRef]

I've been to the 48 contiguous states, 18 countries, and 3 continents. Can't wait to add to the list. I LOVE travelling!

[Scorpio]

We have a weiner!! Atlanta it is, Lonnie's turn. Nice work figuring that one out.

And yes, sorry, I was fast asleep 7 hours ago ;-)

[thomascanty]

Here ya go. Get yer guesses in quick. I'm headed for bed myself in an hour or two...
http://www.ldphotography.net/wai/nocheatingallowed.jpg

[Roy Mathers]

Is this Boot Hill in Tombstone?

[thomascanty]

Well, that was fast... :( I really thought it would take a little longer than that.

You're up, Roy.

[Roy Mathers]

I didn't have to do any detective work - I've been to Tombstone three times, the last visit being six weeks ago:lol:

Here's the next one...

[thomascanty]

I didn't have to do any detective work - I've been to Tombstone three times, the last visit being six weeks ago:lol:

Well, I wish I'd known that. I would have gone with my second choice instead... :lol:

Are the streets in the old section of town still "unpaved"? I've been there twice. The first time was in October, 2003, and they were all just normal paved roads. I went back in September, 2005 to find that they had just unpaved the roads a week earlier by covering them with red gravel and closing everything to vehicle traffic.

[Roy Mathers]

Yes, they've left them unpaved and closed to traffic - and they have the OK re-enactment in the main street every day. To create more tourism, presumably.

[tomd]

Are the rock climbers in Nevada?

I think it's too red & jagged for half dome.