Aerial Pictures of Cities from Around the World

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The discussion revolves around sharing aerial photographs of cities worldwide, with participants expressing their amazement at the diversity and beauty of urban landscapes. New York City is highlighted as a favorite, with contributors posting images of various cities, including San Luis Obispo, Toronto, Seoul, and Montreal. Participants engage in light-hearted banter about their hometowns, with some discussing the population rankings of cities like Seoul and Mexico City. There are mentions of personal connections to the cities shared, with users reminiscing about their experiences. The conversation also touches on the aesthetics of city planning, with comments on the layout of cities like Amsterdam and Detroit. Links to various aerial photography websites are shared, enhancing the visual aspect of the discussion. Overall, the thread emphasizes the appreciation of urban beauty and the shared experiences tied to these locations.
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Hi,

I thought I would start a thread where we can post aerial pictures of cities from around the world so we can learn about what is really out there. I only started doing this recently and was amazed at how limited my knowledge of the world was. So I will start off by posting pictures of what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York. Here you go: http://www.skypic.com/newyork.htm
 
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Scientific Method said:
what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York.


I'm sorry, but the irony is far too great to go unquoted. Its beautiful.

I'll go see if i can't find some aerial pictures of SLO.
 
SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

BishopPk.jpg


Can you tell which picture are from the rainy season (winter) and the dry season (other)? :biggrin:
 
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tribdog said:
are you the red head waving to the camera?

You're mixing me up with your other girlfriend again. :-p
 
who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.
 
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tribdog said:
who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.

Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
 
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Cool, nice pics :) I also have www.keyhole.com - a very nice app provided by Google.
 
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Moonbear said:
Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
I understand. Putting on a nun's uniform is addictive, but try not to make a...um...sigh...try not to make a habit out of it
 
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http://www.geocities.com/rosswattie3/aerial/barcelona.jpg
airplane_view.jpg

Barcelona, where I live
To be more precise, if you divide the inferior image in 10 horizontal stripes, my house is in the lowest stripe, in one of the square blocks of the left of the stripe
 
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Hogtown

Good ol' Toronto!

I live on the water right at teh left edge of the pic.

toh2002_195.jpg
 
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Good ol' Toronto!

Very impressive the CN tower
 
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Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg
 
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meteor said:
Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg

Sorry, i believe that title goes to Mexico City at some 16 million.
 
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I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.
 
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fourier jr said:
I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.

that would be two cities, no?

ONe city, not one metropolitan area.
 
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franznietzsche said:
SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

[PLAIN]http://www.sloproperty.com/Images/BishopPk.jpg[/QUOTE][/URL]

HOME!
Isn't it PRETTY?? :smile: I miss SLO Town. :cry:
 
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Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .

Central California coast, near Pismo. Its about 40,000 people and pretty spread out. And as for countryside...well we are called CowPoly sometimes you know. Very beautiful up here though.
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg
 
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Gokul43201 said:
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg

SFO? San francisco orga...?

And yeah, so we are lazy, after all we're californians living near the beach. Duh.
 
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Colorado Springs. Our downtown skyline might not be quite as impressive as NYC, SFC, but it sure is nice west of town.

We've even got a sense of romance. :blushing:
 

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AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
 
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Monique said:
AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
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Well if that isn't a nicely laid out radial city. Your civil engineers must not suck.
 
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Detroit, which I miss so much

http://www.doblevych.com/photos/detroit/640x480_detroit_downtown_deroy.jpg
 
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i live north of the city, in the middle of a load of the little patchwork fields!
 
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i forgot to post the link, durrrrr
http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/research/glaciology/personalpp/ggfglc/norwich.jpg
 
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Nobody's posted pics of good 'ol Ottawa yet...

this is about a 2 minute drive from my school (its to the right in Rockliffe Park, yes amongst what looks like a forest is a very nice subdivision...i don't live there just go to school)
(note the little airfield to the left:approve: )
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Northeast/2002/307/2

this is downtown ottawa...i live 45 mins south of here (still ottawa though)
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Downtown/2002/313/2

this gives you a view of more of the city, downtown in the north, and then it stretches south into the less densly populated areas
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Southeast/2002/218/2


btw...i agree NYC is a VERY beatiful city, went there with my school for 4 days in November. (Manhattan)
 
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Monique said:
Detroit, which I miss so much

I'm never going to understand that about you. :wink: :biggrin:
 
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anybody got any aerial pictures of Los Angeles ?

marlon
 
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franznietzsche said:
you don't live in LA...do you?
No, but I get to San Diego several times a year. Once in a while I get to LA.

This is the first place where I lived.

http://www.greatoceanrd.org.au/otways/images/mnapollobay.jpg
 
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Astronuc said:
No, but I get to San Diego several times a year. Once in a while I get to LA.

This is the first place where I lived.

http://www.greatoceanrd.org.au/otways/images/mnapollobay.jpg


Purdy, but where?
 
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Moonbear said:
I'm never going to understand that about you. :wink: :biggrin:
Totally ! How can anyone miss Detroit ? :eek: How Monique ? How ?
 
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meteor said:
Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there.

Sao Paolo, Brazil is the most heavily populated city in the world. It's close to 14 million, I believe. Tokyo is the largest metro area.
 
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Astronuc said:
Los Angeles

http://members.cox.net/mkpl/101hollywood-la-86l.jpg
[/URL]

It's amazing how quickly these photos get old. No Bonaventure, no Library Tower, no Staples Center. Anyway, I don't seem to be able to find any photos of Santa Rosa, so here's San Francisco:

usca9356.jpe


usca9353.jpe
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Totally ! How can anyone miss Detroit ? :eek: How Monique ? How ?
I do! I look at that picture and I wish I was there again, good times. Btw, That picture was taken from a campus building I lived at :biggrin: There's something to living in a ghostly city that Detroit can feel like, it makes going out adventurous :wink:
 
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The extent of my world for the next 4 years...
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=10&Z=11&X=1982&Y=18889&W=2&qs=|Pasadena|CA|

I think that's me in that little upper left square.
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=11&X=7930&Y=75557&W=2&qs=|Pasadena|CA|

Dunno where this mysterious softball field came from, though! All that's there now is a giant mountain of dirt and a giant pit of not-dirt...
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=11&X=7922&Y=75553&W=2&qs=|Pasadena|CA|

Cake, anybody?
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=11&X=7924&Y=75563&W=2&qs=|Pasadena|CA|

The University of Colorado Boulevard. (i.e. our other, other, other neighbors to the north [east]).
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=10&Z=11&X=1984&Y=18893&W=2&qs=|Pasadena|CA|

--J
 
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A view of Downtown Montreal at night during the winter months from Mont Royal
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-NatlGeographic1.jpg

A 360 view of Montreal from Mont Royal
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-LouisGeorgakakis1.jpg

View of Montreal from the olympic stadium tower (Mont-Royal is that hill in the middle of the city)
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-PMurris2.jpg

My old campus in the west part of montreal (15 minutes drive from downtown)
http://musicm.mcgill.ca/netads/http/img/macd1a.jpg (East)
http://musicm.mcgill.ca/netads/http/img/macd2.jpg (East)
http://www.geocities.com/nivenlab/SAB.jpg (West)

That my town for the next 3 year - Halifax
http://www.lynnschronicles.com/postcards/hfx_aerial2.jpg
http://www.tradecentrelimited.com/photos/8/Halifax%20City%20aerial%20-%20low.jpg
 
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  • #47
http://www.kinkajoumusic.co.uk/Graphics/Sheffield.jpg

Admit it, it's beautiful!
 
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brewnog said:
Admit it, it's beautiful!


Its very colorful, that's for sure. :bugeye:
 
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iansmith said:
A view of Downtown Montreal at night during the winter months from Mont Royal
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-NatlGeographic1.jpg

A 360 view of Montreal from Mont Royal
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-LouisGeorgakakis1.jpg

View of Montreal from the olympic stadium tower (Mont-Royal is that hill in the middle of the city)
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-QB-Montreal-PMurris2.jpg

My old campus in the west part of montreal (15 minutes drive from downtown)
http://musicm.mcgill.ca/netads/http/img/macd1a.jpg (East)
http://musicm.mcgill.ca/netads/http/img/macd2.jpg (East)
http://www.geocities.com/nivenlab/SAB.jpg (West)

That my town for the next 3 year - Halifax
http://www.lynnschronicles.com/postcards/hfx_aerial2.jpg
http://www.tradecentrelimited.com/photos/8/Halifax%20City%20aerial%20-%20low.jpg

http://www.worldcityphotos.org/leech.htm

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Cheers from your humble city gatherer at http://www.worldcityphotos.org![/quote]
 
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I was quite surprised to see what Tokyo actually looked like, I was expecting something like New York City:

http://www4.tsl.uu.se/~pomp/pictures/ND2001%20-%20Tsukuba/in%20tokyo/24%20-%20view%20from%20tokyo%20twin%20tower%203%20-%20tokyo%20.JPG
 
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