What's this location?

dahamsta · 03-11-2004 07:54AM #1

Is there a Geography board? I couldn't find one, so does anyone know what the attached screencap is a picture of? It was in the first part of the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares", and I'm guessing it's somewhere in Russia, some kind of city or citadel surrounded by water. I think.

adam

billy the squid · 03-11-2004 08:27AM

Are you sure its russia, by the curve in the river it looks a bit like the isle of dogs in london.

p.pete · 03-11-2004 08:41AM

Don't think there's that many bridges onto Isle of Dogs. Reminds me a bit of Luebeck in North Germany but don't imagine it's there either...

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-11-2004 09:58AM

i'd say its on romula. an M class planet

engage!

Jim · 03-11-2004 10:56AM

newband wrote:

i'd say its on romula. an M class planet

engage!

Was going to say that myself.

steveland? · 03-11-2004 03:10PM

Looks kinda like Cloud City from the Empire Strikes Back

Adam · 03-11-2004 03:53PM

I was gonna go with Esthar, from FF8....

stevenmu · 03-11-2004 04:03PM

Atlantis would have got my bet...

...if anyone was taking them...

....and if had any money to gamble with.

cajun_tiger · 03-11-2004 04:06PM

oooooo so pretty

woosaysdan · 03-11-2004 06:38PM

it looks like something from stargate!!!

ShiverinEskimo · 03-11-2004 06:40PM

it looks like a camera taking a picture of a rive with a convex lens. could be anywhere with a bridge.

Adam · 03-11-2004 07:00PM

fade_to_grey wrote:

I was gonna go with Esthar, from FF8....

or better again, topside in FF7

anybody seein a trend....? :eek:

Waltons · 03-11-2004 07:02PM

I have a feeling none of this is helping our man find out what his location is..

beer enigma · 03-11-2004 07:07PM

Can't be 100% on this, but I looks a bit like Riga in Latvia......the moat does'nt look quite right for it though...maybe enhanced by the lens.

dahamsta · 03-11-2004 07:20PM

It's a bad screenie, I'll see if I can get a better one. I don't think it was taken with a particularly convex lens, but I could be wrong.

adam

mike65 · 03-11-2004 07:34PM

Thats not a distorted view as the building on the left shows (straight verticals). The lens flare suggests its a real place and not on Hoth!

Beyond that though...

Mike.

mike65 · 03-11-2004 07:56PM

http://www.butlersonboard.com/moscow/mos_moscow_map.JPG

http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/ws/aucat/map_m.jpg

Looks about right to me.

Mike.

dahamsta · 03-11-2004 08:43PM

I've updated the screenshot in the first post with a larger version, but obviously I have to turn off hardware acceleration to take the screenie, which degrades the quality. So I've ripped the clip from the movie and saved it to several different formats here. It's only a three second clip, but it's a lot easier to decipher.

adam

dahamsta · 03-11-2004 08:49PM

Does indeed Mike. I'll do some Googling in a while to see if I can track down some photos. Gotta go get the din-dins first in preparation for an hour with Auntie.

adam

Micheal Wittman · 03-11-2004 08:49PM

It looks like that city they go too in Star Trek Nemisis

Third_Echelon · 03-11-2004 11:21PM

there is also one of the swedish cities that is made up or islands etc like that... looks a bit more like moscow or st.petersburg...

Victor · 04-11-2004 04:44PM

Architecture looks central or Eastern European. Traffic levels, snow and sun look "wrong". It does look like there is some lens action. Note the way the bridges fly over the quays, which is quite French.

Not Moscow - the bridges are wrong. Not Isle of Dogs.

Church and big bridge suggests Stockholm, but the bridges look wrong http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://robocup.mi.fu-berlin.de/images/stockholm/stockholm-view2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://robocup.mi.fu-berlin.de/stockholm.html&h=376&w=574&sz=28&tbnid=avb0qk6JfxMJ:&tbnh=86&tbnw=131&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphoto%2Bstockholm%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Not st petersburg http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ed.spb.ru/spb/map/map_full_sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ed.spb.ru/spb/map/&h=473&w=750&sz=172&tbnid=NF9-MIFuUmEJ:&tbnh=88&tbnw=139&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphoto%2Bst%2Bpetersburg%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Trojan · 04-11-2004 04:52PM

It's Qo'noS, you fools!

Victor · 04-11-2004 05:06PM

I thought Billancount in Paris for a moment, but I dinna think so now

http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/gbr/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?act=RefineToMap&rnd=1099584108421&E_mg=210504310lS13J404309165831212206MAPB2C17103gbr542000130r110414240007cGFyaXM00001100&stat=ambiguous_map&strChoice=0

Can some one adjust the contrast and lighting etc.

What is the context of the shot?

Is the river iced over or not?

dahamsta · 04-11-2004 05:12PM

Victor wrote:

Can some one adjust the contrast and lighting etc.

I'm no good at that kind of stuff tbh. Definitely worth downloading the video if you can, it comes across much better.

What is the context of the shot?

They're talking about the former Soviet Union, which is why it's likely to be somewhere there.

adam

Furp · 04-11-2004 06:20PM

I think Victor is onto something those bridges look like moscow

See this image http://www.photoweb.ru/prophoto/Gallery/n_arhytekt/most.jpg

this one is better: http://www.photoweb.ru/prophoto/Gallery/n_arhytekt/meandr_e.htm

Got this from a google image search of moscow river.

Third_Echelon · 04-11-2004 06:43PM

in that case its definitely moscow:

original pic(look at the tall building on the right, with the bridge going right up beside it and the 'industrial smoke' in the background to the left):
https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/1854/8085.jpg

now look at this pic:
http://www.photoweb.ru/prophoto/Gallery/n_arhytekt/meandr.jpg

its the same.... even compare a lot of the buildings to the left and right and on the far bank of the river to the right...

ta da... its moscow...

mike65 · 04-11-2004 07:59PM

Third_Echelon wrote:

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ta da... its moscow...

And I did it with only a map!

Mike.

Victor · 06-11-2004 12:30AM

mike65 wrote:

And I did it with only a map!

Pity you got the wrong meander

http://www.eatlas.ru/scripts/ymap.dll/english/dmap.html?name=1075773298280&w=570&h=445&map=msk_eng&group=english

The avenue that the photos look down are Kutuzovskiy prospekt, apparently a prestigious address. The tall builfing appears to be the Ukraina (Ukraine) Hotel.

The neighbourhood has a lot of the Russian / Moscow administrative stuff, inlcuding the White House of Russia (Yeltsin standing on tank, etc.), formerly housing the Russian parliament, it now has the Russian government.

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