Game: Name that road!

[Alex321]

It was a good effort, but South Wales, NNE road, and windfarm does narrow the search down a lot!

Indeed.

I need to go do some cycling elsewhere if I'm going to come up with anything difficult.

 

[ColinJ]

Indeed.

I need to go do some cycling elsewhere if I'm going to come up with anything difficult.

If you had done that, I would be thinking that there must be something on the right that was too much of a giveaway, so you cropped it out. But then I would have to guess what that missing thing might be...

The easiest option would be to use a Street View picture but pan the camera round to get something like this...

 

[Aravis]

It was a good effort, but South Wales, NNE road, and windfarm does narrow the search down a lot!

I'm on holiday so I don't have access to my printed maps, and the OS option on Bing maps was painfully slow to load this evening so that wasn't much use. And I'd forgotten the NNE clue, not that I'd seen its confirmation. I don't know the road either, but the place I first remember seeing a large windfarm in South Wales was north-eastish from Bridgend, so I started looking there.

Here's a photo taken this evening from the place where I'm staying:

 

[ColinJ]

I'm on holiday so I don't have access to my printed maps, and the OS option on Bing maps was painfully slow to load this evening so that wasn't much use. And I'd forgotten the NNE clue, not that I'd seen its confirmation. I don't know the road either, but the place I first remember seeing a large windfarm in South Wales was north-eastish from Bridgend, so I started looking there.

In that case I would upgrade my assessment to an 'excellent' effort!

I found it fairly quickly after you had posted, but I have all the OS maps available.

 

[Alex321]

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If you had done that, I would be thinking that there must be something on the right that was too much of a giveaway, so you cropped it out. But then I would have to guess what that missing thing might be...

The easiest option would be to use a Street View picture but pan the camera round to get something like this...

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I somehow feel that using the streetview mage is cheating a bit, though I suppose so long as it is somewhere you have actually ridden it is Ok.

Incidentally, there is a blooming great valley between the photo location and the village (Gilfach Goch) you can see.. As you can see from the elevation profile on my Roam in my photo, I was just about to start down it.

 

[ColinJ]

I somehow feel that using the streetview mage is cheating a bit, though I suppose so long as it is somewhere you have actually ridden it is Ok.

The original idea was to use our own photos but several of us started to run out!

I use my own photos if I have them, but if I have been somewhere interesting and don't have them I use Street View pictures instead.

 

[Mr Celine]

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If you had done that, I would be thinking that there must be something on the right that was too much of a giveaway, so you cropped it out. But then I would have to guess what that missing thing might be...

The easiest option would be to use a Street View picture but pan the camera round to get something like this...

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Alternatively have some bright primary colours in the foreground. This distracts some puzzlers, while others waste time photoshopping them out.

 

[Mr Celine]

I'm on holiday so I don't have access to my printed maps, and the OS option on Bing maps was painfully slow to load this evening so that wasn't much use. And I'd forgotten the NNE clue, not that I'd seen its confirmation. I don't know the road either, but the place I first remember seeing a large windfarm in South Wales was north-eastish from Bridgend, so I started looking there.

Here's a photo taken this evening from the place where I'm staying:

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Evening, so the angle of the rainbow suggests west coast. Looks like the raised beaches around Kintyre, start looking there....
Didn't take longhttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.5...RKKM_QJxPPkSbjJYZwgw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

[Aravis]

Well deduced, @Mr Celine. It seems I'd left a lot of pointers without fully realising it. I thought I was going to have to leave you all to mull it over while I go out today enjoying this glorious location, I wasn't sure if the mist rolling in from the sea in Street View might have hindered identification.

The original idea was to use our own photos but several of us started to run out!

I use my own photos if I have them, but if I have been somewhere interesting and don't have them I use Street View pictures instead.

In the four years or so this thread has been running, hasn't anyone else had time to take photos specifically for this thread? Have I ever driven anywhere specifically for this purpose? I have a feeling I might have!

 

[ColinJ]

I wasn't sure if the mist rolling in from the sea in Street View might have hindered identification

It didn't really Macca it any harder!

In the four years or so this thread has been running, hasn't anyone else had time to take photos specifically for this thread?

I keep meaning to. I have found the old stem-mounted bag which I used to use to carry my phone, ready for photo-ops. My current phone is too big for it but my compact Canon camera is a snug fit and takes better photos anyway.

 

[Aravis]

It didn't really Macca it any harder!

Pottering around this part of the world, it's impossible to get that song out of my head!

 

[Speicher]

It didn't really Macca it any harder!


I keep meaning to. I have found the old stem-mounted bag which I used to use to carry my phone, ready for photo-ops. My current phone is too big for it but my compact Canon camera is a snug fit and takes better photos anyway.

I find you Kintire of that sort of pun!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I find you Kintire of that sort of pun!

Skye's the limit for wordplay.

 

[Speicher]

Did someone suggest Arran a competition?

 

[Speicher]

Iona book of geographic jokes.