1- You need Google Earth to participate.
2- The location must belong to your own past, work, vacation... absolutely no OBVIOUS personal details.
2a- Or as stated from May additional rules ; Where do you wish to go in the future, for vacations, Historical places, Museums, Wonders... for a quick visit. Anything for any reasons. Hints & Locations unlimited.
3- To earn the right of submitting the next clue for yourself, you MUST identify the buildings_city_address (etc) of the currently unknown place to the person who linked the image. Once confirmed, you win the right for #4 below.
4- You must provide "easy or not" hints for your own. I'd highly recommend Time Zones, minimum.
5- Altitude must not exceed 1km or below 250m. (Mine is at 303 meters)
6- Don't forget to hide the coordinates from us, bottom left!
Here's the first;
I worked on the 15th floor of that skyscraper as a financial advisor from May 75 to October 77. The red arrow points to my office window.
-5GMT.
Where is it? Street & number.
Identify where that plane is parked & which avenue crosses the tarmac!
Oh, now that's an easy one! That's Gibraltar Airport, and Winston Churchill Avenue crosses the tarmac!
Don't know which gate the plane is parked at exactly (Flight Sim X only recognises "Fuel Box 1" whatever that is) but its probably an Airbus A319 of Air Malta.
You got it!
The next hunt is all yours to determinep; using GoogleEarth, between 250m&1km altitude, snap the image, blank out the coordinates, and insert it here with some hints and any questions you'd care asking...
Okay. Let's see how you lot do outside America. I travelled to the country in which this city is located this year -its a nice place once you get over the choking fumes and terrible drivers. Its one of the most famous nations in America's history (after the Great Britain, of course).
Identify the nation, the city (current name) and where each of the arrows is pointing:
Yellow Arrow: This famous hotel still bears the origional name of the city in which it is located. It is very important building in the modern history of this city. I didn't stay here, but in a hotel further south. Interestingly, it also used the city's origional name.
Green Arrow: I've eaten here. This cafe is again, a very important part of this city's history, and was also used in a film directed by Phillip Noyce. There cakes are very rich.
Red Arrow: This building bears the city's current name. Its not open to tourists but you can see it at night because its all light up.
IS it Zeitglockenturm in Bern, Switzerland?
^Nope. The city is somewhere east of Tehran, west of Tokyo, and in the northern hemisphere. Effectively, mainland Asia.
And Zyxpsilon, can I have my Karma?
Not yet... somebody has to find the exact answer(s) to earn the next hunt. It may take awhile, but any supplemental hints (-6GMT, country, etc) from you may speed up the posting of solutions by anyone interested or smart enough to simply work at it. That karma point is THAT precious.
Sounds like you may be talking about Mumbai, India, when it was known as Bombay in the past.
err-- i gave yours already. But, i suspect you're logging onto this forum from the SD (overly complex, IMHO) labyrinth of extra sites which do not list "cross-referenced" karma points given HERE anywhere else but here. After all, this off-topic section of a GC2 game is still used & consulted by local membership & much more people that i certainly won't bother figuring out where they *simply* came from.
As for Jrla21 "answer", it is probably incomplete (or incorrect) for the moment since the identifications of the three arrowed buildings aren't given -- yet.
Bumped back to incite Jrla21's follow up replying for the final answer!
@ Zyxpsilon: Right. That explaination confused me...but I think I get it. Serves me right for not realisng the Off Topic forum is like...the gateway to everthing Stardock or something. No harm done - I'm only logging on through SOASE forums, so that's what's done it I suspect.
Unfortunately Jrla21, that's not the right answer. You're too far west. Let's see if I can push you in the right direction.
For starters, I'll drop the need to identify the green arrow. But if you do want to try and guess it, the film in which it features was produce in 2002 and was not only directed by Phillip Noyce, but also starred Michael Caine. That should make things relatively easy.
Secondly, the city is in former French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos).
That should make things easy.
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