Daily Picture Challenge!

[US71]

"Who cares" is 2 syllables.

"YAWN" is one

[paulthemapguy]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

This is on US20 westbound leaving Cody, WY towards Yellowstone.


cityWI by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[formulanone]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

[empirestate]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

Oh, right about here. 

[formulanone]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

Oh, right about here. 

Damn, how the heck did you find the exact spot?!?

[chays]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

Oh, right about here. 

Damn, how the heck did you find the exact spot?!?

I was trying to figure out the exact thing.  Either he is the owner of the photo and Flickr account, or he lives there, or he's been able to find the photo's geotagged information (I wasn't able to find out anything on the Flickr page).

[csw]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

OH-49 near Ansonia:


US 36 and IL-121 in Decatur:


IN-225 near Battle Ground:

[hotdogPi]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

alpsroads; sign has since been replaced



This photo is mine.

[formulanone]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

144 and 25 in Glennville, Georgia:


ME 100 and ME 4:


US 441 and FL 729 (21² and 27²) in Pahokee:

[paulthemapguy]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

Here are some SQUARES for you SQUARES jk
Personal challenge: There must be at least two perfect squares in the photo.


IMG_2330 by Paul Drives, on Flickr


IMG_2265 by Paul Drives, on Flickr


IL-049-009S by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[kphoger]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

Here are some SQUARES for you SQUARES jk
Personal challenge: There must be at least two perfect squares in the photo.


IMG_2330 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

And all three numbers are perfect squares, too!

[Jim]

January 8, 2019: Perfect squares. 1, 4, 9, 25, 36, 49, etc. Bonus points for multiple in the same photo or assembly.

Here are 3² and 29² on I-71 in Kentucky.  May 31, 2009.



22² and 5² on US 27/301/441 in Belleview, Florida.  January 1, 2010.



21² and 9² on I-83 in Pennsylvania.  April 11, 2010.

[empirestate]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

Oh, right about here. 

Damn, how the heck did you find the exact spot?!?

I was trying to figure out the exact thing.  Either he is the owner of the photo and Flickr account, or he lives there, or he's been able to find the photo's geotagged information (I wasn't able to find out anything on the Flickr page).

Hehe–I was actually surprised myself at being able to find it! Guessing the location of photos is a game I like to play, so I just thought, as a lark, hey–I'll try to find this one!

Basically, I went off the user's name (Ruddy Ct Films) and the Ruddy Ct street sign he had posted. Google Maps only brought up a handful of Ruddy Cts in the U.S. None of them matched the sign style according to current Street View, but it is an old photo. The user's photo of a railroad led me to think it was in the commuter rail areas of the northeast, so I just dropped Pegman at the New Jersey location and started looking around the yellow-lined road that intersects Ruddy Ct. Turns out that brick building in the background is essentially right there, as is the No Parking or Standing sign–and just down the block is a commuter railroad line. (Looks like that photo was taken–dangerously–from about this angle.)

Oh, and the warning sign whose back is visible in the utility work photo is also seen in the "fellow citizen" photo. :-)

[chays]

January 7, 2018:  A sign mentioning utility work is somewhere in the shot.

I didn't want to leave you hanging...but I have no idea where this, because it's not mine:


Utility Work by Ruddy Court Films, on Flickr

Oh, right about here. 

Damn, how the heck did you find the exact spot?!?

I was trying to figure out the exact thing.  Either he is the owner of the photo and Flickr account, or he lives there, or he's been able to find the photo's geotagged information (I wasn't able to find out anything on the Flickr page).

Hehe–I was actually surprised myself at being able to find it! Guessing the location of photos is a game I like to play, so I just thought, as a lark, hey–I'll try to find this one!

Basically, I went off the user's name (Ruddy Ct Films) and the Ruddy Ct street sign he had posted. Google Maps only brought up a handful of Ruddy Cts in the U.S. None of them matched the sign style according to current Street View, but it is an old photo. The user's photo of a railroad led me to think it was in the commuter rail areas of the northeast, so I just dropped Pegman at the New Jersey location and started looking around the yellow-lined road that intersects Ruddy Ct. Turns out that brick building in the background is essentially right there, as is the No Parking or Standing sign–and just down the block is a commuter railroad line. (Looks like that photo was taken–dangerously–from about this angle.)

Oh, and the warning sign whose back is visible in the utility work photo is also seen in the "fellow citizen" photo. :-)

:clap:Wow, very well done!  Awesome, I'm impressed.  This is MapMikey level skills.  See this thread here: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=20215.0

[empirestate]

:clap:Wow, very well done!  Awesome, I'm impressed.  This is MapMikey level skills.  See this thread here: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=20215.0

Aw, shucks! *bow*

Very nice job by MapMikey–I wonder if I would have ever figured that one out on my own. The interchange definitely looked vaguely familiar, but I was really thinking of downtown LA to start. Would've taken me a while to hit on Hartford!

I also recall a similar challenge with an old B/W photo, I think of a bridge, in the Delaware Valley, perhaps? Anybody else recall something like that?

[csw]

:clap:Wow, very well done!  Awesome, I'm impressed.  This is MapMikey level skills.  See this thread here: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=20215.0

This thread being posted on reddit is what led me to the forum! Just in case anyone cares.

[formulanone]

:clap:Wow, very well done!  Awesome, I'm impressed.  This is MapMikey level skills.  See this thread here: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=20215.0

This thread being posted on reddit is what led me to the forum! Just in case anyone cares.

Heh, I was wondering if we'd get any crossovers...I lurk but if I fell into that rabbit hole I'd probably never get out.

[Mapmikey]

:clap:Wow, very well done!  Awesome, I'm impressed.  This is MapMikey level skills.  See this thread here: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=20215.0

Aw, shucks! *bow*

Very nice job by MapMikey–I wonder if I would have ever figured that one out on my own. The interchange definitely looked vaguely familiar, but I was really thinking of downtown LA to start. Would've taken me a while to hit on Hartford!

I also recall a similar challenge with an old B/W photo, I think of a bridge, in the Delaware Valley, perhaps? Anybody else recall something like that?

Solving the Ruddy Ct photo is Mapmikey-level skills...

Interestingly, if you type Ruddy Ct vs. Ruddy Court at Google Maps you get a slightly different suggested locations list.  Ruddy Court did not bring up the NJ location...

The Radiohead cover was not my hardest find IMO (and as I have stated I'm sure a number of others on the forum would've gotten it).  This was:  https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21533.msg2275706#msg2275706

[formulanone]

Interestingly, if you type Ruddy Ct vs. Ruddy Court at Google Maps you get a slightly different suggested locations list.  Ruddy Court did not bring up the NJ location...

If there are a lot of streets/places with the same name, then it will bring up the five closest to wherever you are looking at Google Maps.

I tried it, but was poking around Minnesota at the time so it didn't come up. Tried again last night while situated around West Virginia, and then it showed up. I've had that phenomenon come up before...after all, it wouldn't be useful to show you a locale in your hometown if you're travelling somewhere else.

[Roadgeekteen]

January 9th, 2018:

An exit sign on a non freeway.

[US71]

January 9th, 2018:

An exit sign on a non freeway.

Ambulance Exit
Marion, IL

[MNHighwayMan]

January 9th, 2018: An exit sign on a non-freeway.

Fleur Drive, where it exits and the through route turns into MLK Jr Pkwy, Des Moines.

[Eth]

January 9th, 2018: An exit sign on a non-freeway.

On Lawrenceville Highway (US 29/78, a non-freeway) approaching the beginning of the Stone Mountain Freeway:

[empirestate]

The Radiohead cover was not my hardest find IMO (and as I have stated I'm sure a number of others on the forum would've gotten it).  This was:  https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21533.msg2275706#msg2275706

I'm starting to feel inspiration for a new type of Challenge thread...

[kphoger]

January 9th, 2018:

An exit sign on a non freeway.

Ambulance Exit
Marion, IL

Where is that, exactly?  I used to run a daily delivery route in that area, and a few of the hospitals were customers of ours.