Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky. It was Birmingham, Alabama.
This week’s is somewhere in Washington state, good luck!
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Someplace with ratty buildings, above-ground swimming pools, and junk vehicles. Looks like Pam Roach’s neighborhood. I’m gonna say Auburn, Washington.
The land of race car ya-ya’s?
What’s with all the above ground swimming pools?
This one’s tough – seems extremely random, without anything differentiating it from any of a zillion poorly-zoned locales.
From the shadows, the photo is taken facing west, i.e. south is to the left. The swimming pools are a clue; this locale isn’t on the wet side of the Olympics. It’s a rural or semi-rural area, but the vegetation rules out central Washington on the Columbia River plateau. It looks like one of the Third World shitholes dotting the semi-developed country between Seattle and Tacoma.
Lots of places like this in the Yakima Valley — and most of the valley is in bird’s eye view territory, too. Some bird’s eye view areas don’t have shadows like those — taken in different lighting or time-of-day.
I was gonna say Spannaway
I’m seeing working & non working agricultural equipment. The bus hints at transport for seasonal workers and there are a lot of produce packing boxes in the process of rotting. It looks like a sanding truck in the foreground. I’m going to guess its in the Okanagan, and a less prosperous area. Bing maps suck, at least on an iPad 2 over a crap satellite broadband connection.
@8 Well reasoned.
Is it possible those aren’t recreational pools? Tho I don’t know what farm-ish type use one would have.
@10 That thought occurred to me, too, but I couldn’t figure out what they might be for. Their placement next to structures isn’t consistent with use as cattle or horse watering troughs.
I want an app for Bing Maps that shows which pieces of the territory are covered by bird’s eye views and which aren’t. The whole Yakima Valley / Tri-Cities is covered, as are Walla Walla & Spokane area. But where else in eastern WA? (I’m still feeling like it’s Yakima Valley, though.)
Lee? are we looking north?
@12
Facing north
@13
That’s the standard for this contest, isn’t it?
Is this a brute-force puzzle – that is, one must look exhaustively through every couch-on-the-front-lawn burg to find the needle in the haystack, or is there something uniquely identifying but terribly cleverly hidden that would be the key?
@15 – looks like brute force to me. But if the shadows aren’t right, you can move to a different area. And we only need to look along the west side of north-south roads. And if the neighborhoods have lots of trees and not a lot of junk, we can move to the next one.
@14
Yeah, it’s almost always due north. The only times it’s not is if it’s a particular landmark and I want a better view. In the future, I’ll call it out if I do that (pretty much only in the monthly news item ones).
Zillah. Wild guess.
Scanning the state at 2500′ scale shows the edges of the bird’s eye view regions pretty clearly, btw. No sense trying to search areas that don’t have those views.
Looks like equipment for a truck farm. I guess Wapato, Wa.
Bah. Crumb. I just realized the shadows at 250′ and at 100′ are not necessarily the same. Got to go brute-force a whole big area again.