Forum Game - Where's That Landmark? Part 2

[Jonathan Scott]

Sorry, but Google image search knows that apartment complex, including many other viewpoints.

 

[edward]

Sorry, but Google image search knows that apartment complex, including many other viewpoints.

That is incredible from that little picture Google even includes a link for residents to sign in and pay their rent. It must be the Dormers. :D

Google is a weird beast. Here is a screen capture from a Google maps street view of the same building and Google images doesn't find it.

Is this legal?? Can Google sue me?? Can we use this method??

 

[OmCheeto]

Sorry, but Google image search knows that apartment complex, including many other viewpoints.

Drats!
I could have sworn I checked that.
hmmmm...
But looking at the timestamp, I probably didn't.

I'd been out with my buddies at the pub, only an hour earlier. (hic!)

 

[OmCheeto]

That is incredible from that little picture Google even includes a link for residents to sign in and pay their rent. It must be the Dormers. :D

Google is a weird beast. Here is a screen capture from a Google maps street view of the same building and Google images doesn't find it.

That's how I got my second image. I knew I'd done the google image search test on that one. It only came up with Christmas trees.

Is this legal?? Can Google sue me?? Can we use this method??

Yes, no, and, yes.
But don't quote me. And please, do not take my legal advice, as I'm not a lawyer.

 

[jedishrfu]

Don't worry Om even if you were a lawyer...

 

[edward]

Here is a new one: It is the pointy building down the street and on the right.

 

[edward]

The time travel thread made me think of this type of landmark. I think that this would possibly be the first building a person would visit after finding himself alone and naked in the early 19th century.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

The time travel thread made me think of this type of landmark. I think that this would possibly be the first building a person would visit after finding himself alone and naked in the early 19th century.

I see what you mean - but not voluntarily!

Nice one - took a bit of research. I lived not far from there in around 1981-1983 and used to drive past the village on my way to a nearby major town.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I think there's a chance I may have the time to come up with a new landmark, so I'll state that the current one is the old village lock-up in Wheatley (which is between Aylesbury and Oxford).

 

[edward]

I think there's a chance I may have the time to come up with a new landmark, so I'll state that the current one is the old village lock-up in Wheatley (which is between Aylesbury and Oxford).

That is definitely it Jonathan. The odd thing about it was that it wasn't found by Google image search even with that miniature pyramid shape. I did clip it from Google maps street view.

This would have been my final picture:

 

[Jonathan Scott]

OK, new one:

 

[Borek]

By the sight of it I would think it is arboretum in Trsteno, where "A Song of Ice and Fire" were shot.

Just a blind poke :)

 

[Jonathan Scott]

By the sight of it I would think it is arboretum in Trsteno, where "A Song of Ice and Fire" were shot.

Just a blind poke :)

Well, I'll admit there are lots of trees around, but it's not that.

If you think you know the name of the landmark, a Google image search for the relevant name will find a picture sufficiently similar to confirm it.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

From the other direction:

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Not far away, within the same location:

 

[Jonathan Scott]

A couple of views from the train:

 

[edward]

It appears to be the Wiggly tree in Exbury Gardens & Steam Railroad. Located in the New Forrest National Park.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauline_iow/2481106994/

http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/

 

[Jonathan Scott]

It appears to be the Wiggly tree in Exbury Gardens & Steam Railroad. Located in the New Forrest National Park.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauline_iow/2481106994/

http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/

Yes, that's right, the Wiggly Tree in Exbury Gardens, just over 30 minutes drive from here. Searching on "Wiggly Tree" gives pictures approximately matching both of my first two pictures. Lovely gardens, full of flowers, especially in the spring, and we all enjoy visiting them (that's my family in the second picture). The kids used to like the train most, but now they like the flowers and trees too. And they like the "Lake Moss Monster" which can be seen from the train in the last picture, as well as many other amusing oddities dotted around the railway route.

OK, your turn.

 

[OmCheeto]

It appears to be the Wiggly tree in Exbury Gardens & Steam Railroad. Located in the New Forrest National Park.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pauline_iow/2481106994/

http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/

Thank you! I've been stuck on "sleeping tree" for days...

 

[edward]

That blue steam engine was the turning point for me. Even the Queen loves steam engines. :D

http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/mariloo.aspx

I will have to upload something after dinner.

 

[edward]

BTW that was a great landmark Jonathan. I may have just gotten lucky.

Here is the new landmark:

 

[edward]

I really don't know what this is supposed to represent.

 

[Medicol]

Is it the Last Supper ?

 

[Jonathan Scott]

BTW that was a great landmark Jonathan. I may have just gotten lucky.

Here is the new landmark:

Looks a bit like rock houses in Cappadocia, Turkey, but I can't find a close match and those are mostly better made than this.

 

[edward]

Apparently tourists view the area from balloons.

Looks a bit like rock houses in Cappadocia, Turkey, but I can't find a close match and those are mostly better made than this.

That is close enough. I had to post a picture of a poor quality rock house to get it past Google. :D There is also a Church built in the rock dating back to the first century. The entire area is called Goreme National Park, but rock houses make up most of it.

Good eye Jonathan and it is your turn once more.

 

[edward]

Is it the Last Supper ?

It may very well be an early version of the last supper.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

That is close enough. I had to post a picture of a poor quality rock house to get it past Google. :D There is also a Church built in the rock dating back to the first century. The entire area is called Goreme National Park, but rock houses make up most of it.

Good eye Jonathan and it is your turn once more.

Thanks - I didn't expect that to be the actual answer!

I've spent some time trying to find another one, but Google image search seems to recognise almost every photo I've taken of anything interesting, even from a completely different direction, and any street view image of any obvious landmark. The few exceptions tend to contain obvious text or other clues that would make it too easy (and I don't want to have to spend a lot of time editing photos). I also found some views where Google image search didn't recognise my photo immediately, but if I cropped it to isolate the interesting bit it immediately recognised it! (It even recognised the locations of some photos where I couldn't remember them myself).

So if anyone else has a landmark, please have a go. I'll continue looking for one when I have time.

 

[edward]

That is what I run into a lot Jonathan and I hate to resort to the paint program to put polka dots on landmarks. I do plead guilty to using the paint program a few times. :D I will try to find something.

 

[edward]

Here is a new landmark

 

[OmCheeto]

That looks quite a bit like the Coronado Bridge in San Diego, Ca.

 

[edward]

That looks quite a bit like the Coronado Bridge in San Diego, Ca.

It does, and that is it Mr. eagle eye. I even posted a picture that didn't show the long sweeping curves. For some reason Google identified this next picture as an Audi A7 coupe??

When I was a 20 something I loved Coronado more without the bridge. The ferry quit running at 9:00 PM and it was quiet. We could go out in the middle of Orange Blvd. and play catch with a football. Now Coronado is loaded with high rise condo's and the beach is too crowded.

Your up

 

[OmCheeto]

ps. I hate google...

 

[OmCheeto]

Just got a PM from @fuzzyfelt .
I took that as a hint, that it's time, for a hint.

hint: Although South Dakota may claim this spot, it is not theirs.
ps. The image is from some video, by some foreigner named "Tom", who metaphorized "life".

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Very intriguing, thanks Om, I'll enjoy thinking where it might be.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Ha! The Dinosaur Trail, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada :) ?

 

[OmCheeto]

Ha! The Dinosaur Trail, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada :) ?

Sorry to make it so easy.
You're up!

ps. In case anyone else is watching, this has been my favorite PF game, ever!

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Yay! I really didn't expect this! I'll try to think of something and post it tomorrow if that is ok?

 

[OmCheeto]

Yay! I really didn't expect this! I'll try to think of something and post it tomorrow if that is ok?

Ah! hahahahaha!

As long as "tomorrow" doesn't turn into "next year".

 

[lisab]

Ha! The Dinosaur Trail, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada :) ?

Nice to see you, fuzzy !

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks Lisa, it’s nice to be here with you!

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Ah! hahahahaha!

As long as "tomorrow" doesn't turn into "next year".

Promise!
And I wouldn't have found the last one without the hints.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

I hope this is ok, I think this window frame gives a relatively good view of the clock?

 

[Borg]

I know but I don't have anything to post.

Spoiler

Einstein's clock tower in Bern, Switzerland.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Well done, Borg, that is one answer, there is another one as well!

 

[OmCheeto]

Well done, Borg, that is one answer, there is another one as well!

Oh dear lord...
Did I ever mention, that I hate this game...

 

[jtbell]

there is another one as well!

The Einsteinhaus? I didn't look out the window in that direction when I visited it several years ago, but I remember it being right down the street from the Zytglogge, on that side.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/member-photo-thread.7262/page-58#post-463690

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Yes! That is right, jtbell, well done and good photo!
You're on next!

 

[jtbell]

OK, I have a couple of ideas, but I need to find them in my pictures at home. I tried fiddling with a couple of images from the web, but Google image search still zeroed in on them immediately. Give me a day or two...

 

[jtbell]

I didn't find the landmark that I was originally thinking of, but I found a couple of others that passed a quick Google Images test. Here goes with one of them: