Google Earth Contest #60

[E-8]

Okay folks, this one is a little different and I'm sure that someone will get this one quickly but this location is very interesting so we are offering a number of photos.


http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60b.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60c.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60d.jpg

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http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60e.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest60f.jpg

[Keith]

From what I've found so far, I'm thinking the Japanese Islands.
Just have not been able to pinpoint exact location, yet! Still looking around though.

[Scott Stutzman]

Oh yeah!:) A very interesting place.

[E-8]

Wow, I thought this one would be easy.

Charlie

[Keith]

I've searched everywhere I could think of.
A couple of places I thought it would be, it wasn't.
I've been looking the last 3 mornings!! Now, I'm giving up my search.

[r_i_straw]

Wow, I thought this one would be easy.

Charlie
Sometimes the obvious don't seem so obvious. To me it looks like folks are driving on the right hand side of the road. So that rules out Japan. I did look there anyway along with many random spots on the globe where there is a large city on a west coast shoreline along a sea or lake.

[E-8]

This city was the birthplace of a famous movie star. :)

Yes, I know that's little help. :)

Charlie

[jagged ben]

Dang, couldn't find it, and I think I'm gonna be late for work now. :o

[SteamDonkey74]

Still looking... I have eliminated a few places.

[Scott Stutzman]

Hmmm, This part of the world slowed me down awhile back!:zip:

[rs-27]

Looking at the last photo: not much port activity in spite of the size, the uniform ships moored side by side, end on to the dock... looks like a naval facility. The first photo has 'passenger cars'?, too many for anywhere in the US, as far as that goes, too much track on that sized peninsular. The last photo also had a track around a playing field (next to the compass), also some incongruous high rise buildings.

Russ, how do you say they are driving on the right???

My guess, not in North America.

Bob in IDaho

[E-8]

Yul have to keep looking.

Charlie

[r_i_straw]

Russ, how do you say they are driving on the right???


In the first photo, zoom in on the street along the top. The wind shields are all on the left side of the cars on the "top" side of the road and on the right side on the "bottom" side of the street. On some cars you can see both a wind shield and a rear window but the wind shield is more prominent. Many vehicles are vans and have no rear window. Does not seem to matter which way the shadows fall either.
That is the way I intemperate it anyway.

[ulie]

In the first photo, zoom in on the street along the top. The wind shields are all on the left side of the cars on the "top" side of the road and on the right side on the "bottom" side of the street.

Another indicator is the way those cars are parked in the same picture just atop of the railway. They are standing in a slight angle away from the street. If they were driving on the left side, this angle would be in the other direction.

Then take the fourth picture, at the right margin the intersection. The way the road connections and lanes are made doesn't make sense for left side driving.

Might be I've made a fool out of myself if the place indeed is in a place with left side driving, but for now I believe I'm right...

well, I will go searching for the place some more...

GreetingZ

Uwe (new to trainboard, but I love maps and such...:tb-biggrin:)

[E-8]

Welcome aboard ulie!

Charlie

[ulie]

Hello Charlie,

Welcome aboard ulie!

Thank you...

and I've found the place:

Vladivostok it is...

Sorry for not posting a link or picture, but I'm just starting to learn about Google Earth...

[ulie]

Hello Charlie,

This city was the birthplace of a famous movie star. :)

I'm confused, which movie star was born out here in the very far east? (I won't name the place now, since I've posted it and got message that the post had to be confirmed by a moderator. Does that mean I was right?

[ulie]

Hello Charlie,

Sorry for not posting a link or picture, but I'm just starting to learn about Google Earth...

can anybody please give me a hint about how to post a link for a place in Google Earth? I can create a .kmz file which will open Google Earth at the place for me, but how do I get this link into a post?

[Otto Yard]

Hello Charlie,



Thank you...

and I've found the place:

Vladivostok it is...

Sorry for not posting a link or picture, but I'm just starting to learn about Google Earth...
Congrats, Ulie!

Keith, I was sure you would find it, all you had to do was go North of
Japan! I had found it while doing contest #59.

[Otto Yard]

Hello Charlie,



I'm confused, which movie star was born out here in the very far east? (I won't name the place now, since I've posted it and got message that the post had to be confirmed by a moderator. Does that mean I was right?
:tb-cool:Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostock on July 11, 1915. Loved
those Ciggies!

[wurlitzer153]

can anybody please give me a hint about how to post a link for a place in Google Earth? I can create a .kmz file which will open Google Earth at the place for me, but how do I get this link into a post?

I don't know about Google Earth, but In Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/) there is a button that says "Link to this page" in the upper right of the screen. The pictures in GE and GM are the same, GE just has more features.

[Scott Stutzman]

Great! I love to see new Geosleuths!:D

Congratulations ulie

Vladivostok, Russia

http://trainboard.com/contest/vladivostok_done.jpg

http://trainboard.com/contest/vladivostok_russia_done.jpg

[Scott Stutzman]

Yul have to keep looking.

Charlie

Yul! I get it. As in Yul Brynner! Oopps! I guess I'm typing out loud.:embarassed::eh-laugh:

[RGW]

Great get Ulie!

[ulie]

Great get Ulie!

THX :bear-laugh:

I love this contest with Google Earth...

...and I love to look at places I've been (like Driftwood Point in Sumner, WA back in 87, but mostly places around Europe).

About this fun contest:

How does this image: "TB Geosleuth" come into my signature?

I checked all the older ones and some were hard for folks who didn't knew an area... like me...:bear-smile:

What are the criteria for places to be choosen for this contest, besides being related to the railroad? I could think of some places that might be a fun thing to search for. I would also love to see and read about places with a story behind the picture, or maybe some information why a place is special in one or another way. Maybe when a place is found, this could be told for all to enjoy. FX: the one about the Channel tunnel, where they have to put the lanes at one end in a way that it is easy to change from driving on the right to driving on the left side of the road. I'm not sure if they do this in Calais or Folkestone.

[E-8]

Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostock on July 11, 1915.

I'm confused, which movie star was born out here in the very far east?

Yul have to keep looking.

I see it's been figured out. Congratulations. :tb-rolleyes::thumbs_up:

[ulie]

I see it's been figured out. Congratulations. :tb-rolleyes::thumbs_up:

just that according to Wikipedia Yul was born on July 11th 1920...

had I gotten this connection earlier, I would have saved a lot of time searching....

I was looking for naval bases all around the west coasts...