Comments on: Do you know where this is?

Question: Do you know where this is?

nuala — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:04:28 -0800

Does anyone recognize this photo? It looks like a cemetary to me but I can't identify which one. See here. I've been searching to no avail for some time. Any ideas? I'm looking for the location and name.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:09 -0800

Could be any cemetery. For example, looks a lot like Arlington National in Washington. But is it? No idea. A 200 square-pixel blurry satellite image of a cemetery isn't going to be easy to pin-point.

By: notquitemaryann

notquitemaryann — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:44:35 -0800

(I'm extremely bored here at work, so) where did you find the picture, originally?

By: nuala

nuala — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:54:35 -0800

The picture is a part of this puzzle. It's the only photo not identified. We haven't had any luck figuring out so I thought Ask MeFi hive mind might be able to recognize it.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:47:40 -0800

Maybe this can jog your memory? I was just checking out the more famous ones with Google Maps, but couldn't come up with anything.

By: nuala

nuala — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:31:24 -0800

It may not be a cemetery at all but I'll keep looking, thanks. We're under a deadline; the picture has to be identified by 9 pm pacific. I'm stumped.

By: Xurando

Xurando — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:04:20 -0800

I'd think park instead of cemetery and maybe park in Germany. Englisher Gardens in Munich perhaps?

By: firstdrop

firstdrop — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:43:16 -0800

Those cars appear to be driving on the left though I can't be sure with that poor resolution. Narrows things a bit. I had a look at pics of the two largest cemeteries in Sydney and Melbourne - no match.

By: cerebus19

cerebus19 — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:14:24 -0800

To me it doesn't look like a cemetery, especially after looking at satellite pictures of known cemeteries. To me it looks more like the AIDS Quilt, or something of that sort, laid out in a park.

By: parkerjackson

parkerjackson — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:26:21 -0800

It looks very much like the cemeteries in New Orleans ("cities of the dead"). I looked through the cemeteries that come up on google maps and couldn't find a positive ID, but I would bet anything it was a cemetery made up of mausoleums. I'm sure N.O. didn't invent that style of burial, so it could be a different place that also has a problem with flooding.

By: nuala

nuala — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:31:49 -0800

Thanks everyone. Didn't find it in time but I appreciate the help.

By: nuala

nuala — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:27:58 -0800

Just for the record, here is the answer:

Spalding Cemetery, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

By: firstdrop

firstdrop — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:12:34 -0800

Well. Who'd've thunk?