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Can you identify the high-rise and name its city from a Google Earth bird's-eye view screenshot? The goal of this game is to have fun sharing and guessing distinctive high-rise buildings that stand out in their cities' skylines using Google Earth. It's a bird's-eye-view challenge where players look for clues by observing: The building's architecture: Chicago School, Neo-Gothic, Art Deco, Brutalist, Postmodern, International Style, and more. The surrounding urban fabric: Rooftops, street patterns, and vernacular architecture that hint at the local climate, culture, and region. The landscape and topography: Mountains, coastlines, rivers, plains, and other geographical features visible on the horizon. Rules: The first player to correctly identify both the high-rise and its city earns the right to post the next challenge (or may choose to pass their turn). The featured high-rise must be a true building with at least 15 occupiable floors, such as an office, residential, hotel, or mixed-use tower. It should also be visually prominent within its city's skyline. Freestanding towers and non-building structures are not eligible. This includes broadcast and communications towers, church steeples, observation towers, landmarks (e.g. Eiffel Tower, Space Needle, CN Tower) and similar structures. Every challenge must include the continental region or country as an initial clue, along with the screenshot. While challenging guesses can be rewarding, try to choose buildings that are reasonably recognizable. A short high-rise in an obscure location, a small city or a lesser-known region of the world can become a needle in a very large haystack, causing the game to stall and making it less enjoyable for everyone. How to Play: Open Google Earth in your web browser or desktop client and navigate to the high-rise you want to feature. In View → Basemap Settings, select: Type: Satellite Details: Clean (no borders, labels, places, or roads) Pan, zoom, and tilt the camera until the building is centered in a bird's-eye perspective (example here) that clearly shows: the entire building, its surrounding neighborhood, and the horizon where the land meets the sky. Capture a screenshot as a .jpg using Google Earth's Create Image tool or your preferred screenshot application (Greenshot, Snipping Tool, etc.). Post the screenshot together with the continental region or country as the starting clue. You're also welcome to include additional hints or interesting facts about the building or its city to make the challenge even more engaging. Example and First Guess Post: Somewhere in North America:
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Identify City/Metro from Satellite Image To play, observe the satellite image and try to guess the city by: - Analyzing the shape and layout of the urban area - Inferring the climate region from the earth's surface texture - Spotting recognizable landmarks visible from above The Rules: - The first person to correctly identify the city gets to share the next Google Earth satellite image - Make sure to remove all labels and layers, leaving only the satellite basemap - The screen capture orientation must be set to North-up (i.e., the top of the image points towards the north) - The scale of the image should be set to show the entire urban area, with a small portion of the surrounding rural or suburban area visible - You can choose to skip your turn if you'd like While it can be fun to challenge one another with more difficult guesses, I suggest limiting the game to metropolitan areas with populations greater than 100,000. This will help keep the game moving, make it more enjoyable for everyone, and avoid situations where progress is stalled by hard guesses for small cities in remote or lesser-known regions. Here we go: ^ Original Pic Name: image.png
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What if there was a C:S Google Earth?
AmiPolizeiFunk posted a topic in Cities: Skylines General Discussion
What if there was a multiplayer server that had a Cities:Skyline 1:1 representation of the entire planet, a la Google Earth. Some kind of UI could let you zoom in to various 81-tile chunks in your game. You could work on them and submit them back to be shared. A wikipedia-type system could approve and accept updates to the main model. Super freshness would be if you and a mate (or mates) could work on the same chunks at the same time. Oh the future of possibilities.- 6 Replies
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Hi, folks Two days ago Google made the professional version of Google Earth for free! I'm doing this thread because the Pro version can be extremely helpful to the BATters around, since you can have more measurements options. You can have the height of the buildings as well, which can be useful to buildings we could not find this information around cause they're not so famous. This is impossible to do with the ordinary version. Anyway, I don't know if this free option was already available in your country, but at least here, we are going to save U$ 400,00 per year! Direct link: http://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html Pay attention, after you donwload it will ask an username and the key, you have just to put your email and the key GEPFREE.
