{"id":67811,"date":"2011-10-15T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67811\/cities\/"},"modified":"2011-10-15T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T23:02:21","slug":"cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67811\/cities\/","title":{"rendered":"NAME THESE CITIES!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey folks!\u00a0 A new twist on the \u201cName That\u2026\u201d game we played previously on this blog!\u00a0 This one might be a little more difficult, so I\u2019ll include hints.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of Google maps.\u00a0 I keep a link to their site on my browser\u2019s toolbar, and if I\u2019m watching a documentary or the latest news about some far flung place on the globe, within a few clicks and scrolls, I can get a bird\u2019s eye view of the place they are talking about.<\/p>\n

You might know that the satellite imagery via the web has been available for more than a decade, but did you know that Yahoo and MapQuest (pre-Google) both pulled their satellite imagery in the aftermath of 9\/11\/2011?\u00a0 I guess they thought it might be too useful to terrorists.\u00a0 Whoever \u201cthey\u201d are.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the game: NAME THESE CITIES! <\/strong> What are these cities?\u00a0 For my international friends, 3 of these 5 cities are in the USA, but that leaves two overseas.<\/p>\n

See, I got this idea while watching a football game being played in the city you see below (there\u2019s your first hint).\u00a0 The game was a blowout, so my mind was wandering.<\/p>\n

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Here is city #2.\u00a0 From this angle, I don\u2019t think you can make out the famous hills on which it was founded.
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In city #3, you can see an airport right there in the middle of the harbor.\u00a0 Twenty-five years ago, I was on a plane landing at that airport.\u00a0 It was pretty amazing.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve also visited city #4 here.\u00a0 Never have I been to a place that was more rigidly laid out on a grid, all centered on a famous place in the middle of town.
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I visited city #5 when I was just a little kid, but I feel like I know it well because a fictitious version of this town was the site of a GTA video game.
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Okay, there\u2019s your challenge!\u00a0 Name these cities!<\/p>\n

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Hey folks!\u00a0 A new twist on the \u201cName That\u2026\u201d game we played previously on this blog!\u00a0 This one might be a little more difficult, so I\u2019ll include hints. I\u2019m a big fan of Google maps.\u00a0 I keep a link to their site on my browser\u2019s toolbar, and if I\u2019m watching a documentary or the latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}