Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[bruce_the_loon]

is that something i don't know google does, and a person can load a picture for a match, or have i been going against the rules?

https://images.google.com
Drag and drop a picture and Google might find it by searching for the actual image content. That be banned in this competition.

Finding the location by searching text descriptions and actually finding a match for "skyscraper yellow edges asia" is permissible.

 

[Andres Falconer]

https://images.google.com
Drag and drop a picture and Google might find it by searching for the actual image content. That be banned in this competition.

Finding the location by searching text descriptions and actually finding a match for "skyscraper yellow edges asia" is permissible.

Except that “skyscraper yellow edges Asia” doesn’t really get you anywhere

 

[InspectorJon]

You had a 50% chance there. Not Taipei.

So we are down to Philippines. The obvious first guess is Manila.

 

[InspectorJon]

Makati City in the Manila metropolitan area.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Makati City in the Manila metropolitan area.

Aha! I was about to write that Manila was not technically correct but you got it! Makati CBD. I visited in 2001 and was impressed by the greatest number of back-to-back shopping malls I’ve ever seen.

You’re up @InspectorJon!

 

[InspectorJon]

Visited here in 2007

 

[bruce_the_loon]

The plain in rain falls mostly on the Spain?

 

[bracconiere]

i can see why the image thing would be cheating....never knew that was something i could do, for other purposes..i'm out of this one though!

 

[tracer bullet]

... Spain?

Hmm, I was getting a Middle Eastern vibe, but that's an interesting thought.

That tree is messing with me, as far as what it is and where they might grow.

 

[InspectorJon]

Not Spain

 

[D.B.Moody]

Visited here in 2007

I've never visited, but i have the stamp. Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.

 

[InspectorJon]

That is the place. D.B. is up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not a great, photograph, but I took this in 1980:

 

[tracer bullet]

St. Louis? I sort of recognize that building in the distance though I haven't seen it for a decade (but have been there a few times). You may have shot this from the arch.

 

[D.B.Moody]

You are correct on all counts. The building is the Civil Courts Building. The view looks a bit different now in a good picture:

You're up @tracer bullet.

 

[tracer bullet]

 

[Andres Falconer]

Google fu gets you there, after scrolling through several images of Brussels’ infamous Atomium. But I’ll pass for now. I want to know how you got to this. Perhaps you have an interesting day job in intel and surveillance?

 

[tracer bullet]

Haha, no, engineer at a medical device manufacturer. I just open up Google maps and start scrolling around until I see a country I don't know anything about, then start checking out their cities for something that might work.

 

[Pkrd]

Obviously somewhere very modern and progressive. Pyongyang.

 

[tracer bullet]

Obviously somewhere very modern and progressive. Pyongyang.

LOL not sure if that's irony but yes, you got it. You are up next!

 

[Pkrd]

Try this

 

[D.B.Moody]

I don't know the town, but that's got to be Italy.

 

[Pkrd]

It is Italy.

 

[tracer bullet]

I was thinking "obviously" northern Italy near the Alps, but - it's not quite right. I've been poking around and... it might be the island Sicily.

So I'll try narrowing it down with "somewhere in Sicily".

 

[Pkrd]

Yep, someone in Sicily.

 

[beermanpete]

Enna?

 

[Pkrd]

Enna?

Head East from Enna

 

[tracer bullet]

I'm stuck. Have perused mountain-top towns in Sicily and various other Sicily travel sites. I want to visit now, but can't make a match.

 

[beermanpete]

Paterno?

 

[Pkrd]

Paterno?

Too far east

 

[D.B.Moody]

Yep, someone in Sicily.

I took your "someone" (as opposed to "somewhere") as a clue. The only person I knew of with the name of a town in Sicily was Don Corleone, but it turned out Corlone's west of Enna. Eventually I Googled "Sicily person town" and got to Centuripe, a small town that looks like a person from the air.

And, @beermanpete, Centuripe is in the province of Enna.

 

[Pkrd]

You got it DB. Someone indeed.

 

[D.B.Moody]

These are from 2017. One has more of the of the masked building and the other has more skyline in it:

 

[DBhomebrew]

The Senyera. We're somewhere in the territory of the Crown of Aragon.

 

[D.B.Moody]

There were flags everywhere and people were parading. The parliament had (perhaps not quite according to Hoyle) enacted that a referendum for independence be held October 1st.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Catalonia

 

[D.B.Moody]

Catalonia is correct. Waiting for the city.

 

[catalanotte]

Casa Batllo in Barcelona.

I did a Google search for the phone number of the sign on the building? The area code was a 9?4 and it started with 880. A little trial and error to find that 934 was a the only one that worked in Catalonia, and with the 880 I got a very nearby address. Is this a legit find with Google or too much?

Kind of funny, search turned up this place.
Erotic Massage near El Poble-sec, Barcelona, Spain
Carrer de la Diputació, 279, 08007 Barcelona. +34 934 880 869 ...

 

[DBhomebrew]

Another Gaudi

 

[D.B.Moody]

Barcelona it is. You're up @catalanotte. Does your name suggest Catalan heritage?