GoogleEarthing #104
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Use Google Earth to find the image below somewhere on the face of the Earth. When you find it, tell us using the comment feature.
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Solved by: Adriaan
Location: 39 55 45 N, 33 14 53 E , Elmadag, Turkey
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November 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Have been exploring Greece, California, the South of France and Italy a bit, but I haven’t found any similar places.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Now that you mention it, the road layout does have a non-USA feel to it. Good observation.
Alan
November 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Have a look at the island of Madeira… I haven’t found it there, but didn’t do a thorough (inch-by-inch) search.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
“the road layout does have a non-USA feel to it”
Indeed, but it doesn’t look European either, I hardly see such black roads in Europe. Maybe i’m not looking good
January 9th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Some nice clusters of roofs and vegetation around Kampala/Entebbe, but nothing that matches.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Been looking around the Carribean, now back to the Mediterranean…
January 25th, 2010 at 10:21 am
One thing that just struck me is the lack of cars. 40 houses, and not one appears to have a car outside. None appear to have tarmac drives (just dirt paths). And maybe one car on the road, but not even sure that is a car.
Thought Alan was mad looking in Africa, but maybe not!! Now I’m just confusing myself.
January 25th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
“Thought Alan was mad looking in Africa” — more like an annoying twitch
Good eye on the cars, or lack thereof.
What I’m seeing is a new neighbourhood (black tarmac roads — no lines on the roads)and new wealth. Large houses, similar roofs, walled compounds (not too high walls). Few if any with second floors. One house still being built. No swimming pools!!!
Obviously more arid than temperate.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:21 am
What strikes me is how small most plots are and how close the houses are to each other. So space is scarse and/or expensive. That leads me to believe it’s either in or near a larger city, or in an area with little terrain suited for building (mountainous, for example).
January 26th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Also noteworthy: no pools.
And I’m wondering what the structure on the triangle directly above the white car is, a chapel or something like that?
January 26th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Adriaan wrote: “Also noteworthy: no pools.”
Dude!! I already mentioned that!
Good call on the triangle structure. I hadn’t noted that.
Lots of interesting observations on this one, but nothing that shouts “eureka” to me.
Alan
PS I sent an message to your gmail. If your address has changed, mine hasn’t.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:19 am
Alan wrote: “Dude!! I already mentioned that!”
Doh!! Totally and completely missed that…
My money for this one is still on the Northern Mediterranean.
Adriaan
PS. Got your mail, will respond tonight.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:00 am
It seems to be the Northern hemisphere to me, as the Sun is lighting up the SE faces of the houses.
The shadow cast by the houses suggests it’s before noon, around 10-11AM, I suppose
There are shadows cast by tall trees- possibly cypresses- a mediterranean climate zone.
One possible guess- This could be one of those small towns in Northern slopes of the Elbrus Mts, N. Iran, (areas bordering the Caspian Sea. This area is the favorite of rich Iranians who have very fashionable villas
Other guesses- in Azerbaijan, or the Georgian Republic.
PJ
February 18th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Hi PJ, welcome to GoogleEarthing.
Some good and intriguing observations you made there. I will definately do a few searches in the areas you mentioned. Getting tired of fruitless searches around the Mediterranean anyway.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:37 am
Thanks, Adriaan
Going by the roofs (all are sloping, red-tiled), mygut feeling says it’s probably in Turkey
The pace’s on a south-facing slope (on the sunny side). It’s probably not a suburb of a large city- as there are not many cars- alternatelu, it could be a new development.
It’s not an upscale, ‘posh’ locality, going by the dearth of swimming pools.
Alternately, it could be northern Turkey facing the Black Sea
Am still looking around in Turkey. Hope I get to the location soon. The imagery would have probably been updated as well; this could make the search a tad more tough, I fear.
PJ
March 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I did quite a few searches in Turkey some months ago. But only in the south. Some very tantalising similar places.
I think I’ll pick the search for this one up again, one of these days.
March 27th, 2010 at 8:20 am
I had looked around NW and N shores- around the Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus and the Black Sea shores. Striking similarities, but nothing close.
March 30th, 2010 at 5:36 am
OK, I give up. Please post the solution, it’s been 1.5 years
March 30th, 2010 at 9:47 am
heyyy!
Request please wait for a little while more! Am on trail, and its really very interesting
March 30th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Be assured: solutions will not be posted. Sometimes hints are provided. But with this one that will be difficult as both Alan and me don’t know where this is
And 1.5 year isn’t that long, it’s about a year less than it took to find, for instance, #100 .
March 30th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Any hints for this one will come from Brad. Sometimes his hints are more puzzling than the puzzles.
Then again, we’ll find out on Friday if I have any ability at giving hints.
May 12th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Is there any chance a more recent image has been taken than this? I’m not sure how often GE updates but this says 2005 on it. Might have swimming pools and more cars now people have moved in?
May 12th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
The image is still the same. I just checked.
Brad
June 5th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Since we’re in clue mode, gobble up this one.
June 5th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
So PJ is on the right lines?
Alan, do you know the locations of this and #111?
June 5th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Give thanks that I’ve said as much!
Brad told me this one, but the tower thingie is still just some thingie. No idea what or where.
June 5th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
So ‘gobble up’ is what we have to work with….?
Greedy (Greece), or the sound a turkey makes? That doesn’t change much for me, I’ve beem searching there a lot.
June 6th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Like I said, I have been looking around Turkey for a long time. But Alan’s hints (gobble, Thanksgiving) gave me a kind of boost to do some more thorough and extensive searching. With result:
39 55 45 N, 33 14 53 W Elmadag, Turkey
June 6th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
That answer is only partially correct.
June 6th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Big oops! Replace the W with an E…
39 55 45 N, 33 14 53 E
June 6th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
So, Adriaan, how ’bout that tower thingie dingie?
June 7th, 2010 at 6:28 am
That tower thingie is a thoughie…
Does finding something very similar also count? : 28° 1′55.98″ N, 35°58′15.30″ E
June 7th, 2010 at 9:12 am
That’s a good find, but I’ve always been thrown by the resolution of #111. Either it is enormous, or it is in a much much higher resolution area than this one. I haven’t found any others so far that you can actually see the red/white bands so clearly on….