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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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...
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?
Hello Charlie, 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?
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.
