Aerial Pictures of Cities from Around the World

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In summary: I don't know, is that a bad thing?And yeah, so we are lazy, after all we're californians living near the beach. ...I don't know, is that a bad thing?
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Hi,

I thought I would start a thread where we can post aerial pictures of cities from around the world so we can learn about what is really out there. I only started doing this recently and was amazed at how limited my knowledge of the world was. So I will start off by posting pictures of what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York. Here you go: http://www.skypic.com/newyork.htm
 
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Scientific Method said:
what I consider the greatest city in the world - New York.


I'm sorry, but the irony is far too great to go unquoted. Its beautiful.

I'll go see if i can't find some aerial pictures of SLO.
 
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SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

BishopPk.jpg


Can you tell which picture are from the rainy season (winter) and the dry season (other)? :biggrin:
 
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tribdog said:
are you the red head waving to the camera?

You're mixing me up with your other girlfriend again. :-p
 
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who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.
 
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tribdog said:
who can tell in those damn habits, which can disappear again anytime now.

Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
 
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Cool, nice pics :) I also have www.keyhole.com - a very nice app provided by Google.
 
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Moonbear said:
Nope, have to keep the habit a bit longer. There's a demon possession thread over in debunking, and I might need my cross. I can't touch it with my bare hands or it burns really badly, so I need the asbestos habit.
I understand. Putting on a nun's uniform is addictive, but try not to make a...um...sigh...try not to make a habit out of it
 
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http://www.geocities.com/rosswattie3/aerial/barcelona.jpg
airplane_view.jpg

Barcelona, where I live
To be more precise, if you divide the inferior image in 10 horizontal stripes, my house is in the lowest stripe, in one of the square blocks of the left of the stripe
 
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Hogtown

Good ol' Toronto!

I live on the water right at teh left edge of the pic.

toh2002_195.jpg
 
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Good ol' Toronto!

Very impressive the CN tower
 
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Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg
 
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meteor said:
Seoul is the most populated city of the world, with more than 10 millions of persons living there. Asia is the power of the future, people say!
seoul.jpg

Sorry, i believe that title goes to Mexico City at some 16 million.
 
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I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.
 
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fourier jr said:
I thought it was tokyo/yokohama @ ~26000000 or something.

that would be two cities, no?

ONe city, not one metropolitan area.
 
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franznietzsche said:
SLO Glory:

http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/slo1.jpg

PortSanLuis.jpg


http://www.richardsonproperties.com/images/aerial-photo.jpg

[PLAIN]http://www.sloproperty.com/Images/BishopPk.jpg[/QUOTE][/URL]

HOME!
Isn't it PRETTY?? :smile: I miss SLO Town. :cry:
 
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Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .

Central California coast, near Pismo. Its about 40,000 people and pretty spread out. And as for countryside...well we are called CowPoly sometimes you know. Very beautiful up here though.
 
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ramollari said:
Where is SLO town, I'm curious? To me it seems like countryside :smile: .
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg
 
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Gokul43201 said:
If I'm not mistaken, 'SLO' is San Luis Obispo, California. These lazy slobs won't bother spending the extra 0.4 seconds it takes to say the whole name.

Take a look at SFO ! :wink:

11-6479.jpg

SFO? San francisco orga...?

And yeah, so we are lazy, after all we're californians living near the beach. Duh.
 
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Colorado Springs. Our downtown skyline might not be quite as impressive as NYC, SFC, but it sure is nice west of town.

We've even got a sense of romance. :blushing:
 

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AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
 
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Monique said:
AMSTERDAM :biggrin:

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/maps/lucht1.jpg
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Well if that isn't a nicely laid out radial city. Your civil engineers must not suck.
 
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Detroit, which I miss so much

http://www.doblevych.com/photos/detroit/640x480_detroit_downtown_deroy.jpg
 
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i live north of the city, in the middle of a load of the little patchwork fields!
 
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i forgot to post the link, durrrrr
http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/research/glaciology/personalpp/ggfglc/norwich.jpg
 
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Nobody's posted pics of good 'ol Ottawa yet...

this is about a 2 minute drive from my school (its to the right in Rockliffe Park, yes amongst what looks like a forest is a very nice subdivision...i don't live there just go to school)
(note the little airfield to the left:approve: )
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Northeast/2002/307/2

this is downtown ottawa...i live 45 mins south of here (still ottawa though)
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Downtown/2002/313/2

this gives you a view of more of the city, downtown in the north, and then it stretches south into the less densly populated areas
http://www.globalairphotos.com/large/ON/Ottawa/Southeast/2002/218/2


btw...i agree NYC is a VERY beatiful city, went there with my school for 4 days in November. (Manhattan)
 
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Monique said:
Detroit, which I miss so much

I'm never going to understand that about you. :wink: :biggrin:
 
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anybody got any aerial pictures of Los Angeles ?

marlon
 

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