Yup, that's an orange roof. It's not Santa Clara, CA; so that's me out for now! Photo was taken 2007/2008 by someone friendly with Digital Globe (but tele-atlas got credits on it too) Shadows go down and left; saying north is probably not straight up (of course, almost every photo is rotated here, what have I proven?) Big trees, no obvious carparks, and curved roads, possibly with a fountain or statue bottom of the photo. Indicates she's not a (major city of an) American target. Orange roof and big trees. I suspect these are important. Like sleep is important. I suspect I will have to stop playing Google Challenges; it's too disruptive, as fun as it is! Good night. Good luck.
Is that a pair of Palm trees just to the right of the upper building? (look at shadows) That will rule out any place that has white stuff on the ground right now.
I'm refusing to fire up google earth! Some thoughts: I see another palm tree, in the garden below the courtyard of the lower station - it throws it's shadow onto the intersection. most other trees are round and green Orange roofs - good clues for Italy or Spain If true, the photo's been rotated Not 100% certain on drive-on-right; my best clues are a couple of the intersections seem to suggest it - the best being near the white boxes (trucks or buses) top centre. If they backed out, drove down around the U shape, where their side road passes the grey building and touches the street, it looks like there's white paint on the right hand side.. The field on the right hand side has a faint circle in the centre and the ground is scuffed in the middle of each end. Soccer! Square-grid-like; fairly recent development The ground just looks hot; somewhere nearer the equator, but not a desert. bottom left, the building with the semi-enclosed courtyard filled with cars, are those two taxis sitting on the street outside? top right corner, swimming pools! And that's all I can drag from the photo. Any other sharp-eyed comments?
I dunno, I still like Italy, or somewhere Mediterranean Just look at Portomaggiore, Italy (44°41'47.85"N by 11°47'59.24"E) It's got the trees, the roads, the roofs, the baked dirty brown soil. The only thing that particular town don't got is the photo at the start of the thread
Okay, a reply like that is worse than no reply at all! Thanks to you I've now thrown even more time at google earth! I still like Italy for the patterns of houses and terrain; although I note Portomaggiore has fewer swimming pools than the target. Quite a few towns around the Mediterranean use that colour of red roof and have the same sort of climate (trees + soil colour), so it might be worth scattering around more. .. and now my ISP has cut me back to 64kbit for "excessive traffic use". So I'll have to leave this one to someone else...
I dunno about ya'll--I have little/no access to GE now, but I wanna think SoCal. Grid streets, pools, those orange roofs could just be standard shingles, not the tiles. If not SoCal, maybe the SW US. Arizona, NM, Texas.
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