# Find this thread please (Identify location in photo) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 19, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225 "2010-07-19T14:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/1 "2010-07-19T14:44:02Z")
I’m looking for an old thread. I think it was about a year old, or so. Somebody posted an aerial photo of a coastal town, somewhere in the world, and asked Dopers to identify the location. The Dopers did an amazing job, by spotting clues such as: - road markings written in English - a police car with markings in a foreign language - traffic driving on the left - bunting in specific (national?) colours and thus narrowed down the possible locations, until one specific place was identified. Can anyone identify this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/2 "2010-07-19T15:47:37Z")
Do you know what forum the thread was in? ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/3 "2010-07-19T15:56:47Z")
Is it [this thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557289&highlight=malta) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/4 "2010-07-19T16:00:04Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > Is it [this thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557289&highlight=malta) That’s the one I was going to offer, but he said it was a year or so ago. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/5 "2010-07-19T16:15:50Z")
That’s the one I thought of, too. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/6 "2010-07-19T16:19:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That’s the one I was going to offer, but he said it was a year or so ago. Yeah, it’s only been four months, but on a relatively fast moving message board, where we cover a lot of ground, it could have seemed like a year. Besides **Peter Morris** did participate in that thread, so it seemed like a good bet. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/7 "2010-07-19T16:24:28Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > Yeah, it’s only been four months, but on a relatively fast moving message board, where we cover a lot of ground, it could have seemed like a year. Besides **Peter Morris** did participate in that thread, so it seemed like a good bet. You probably did the same thing I did-searched for all threads with the word “photo” in the title that he posted in. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/8 "2010-07-19T16:32:29Z")
That’s the thread. Thanks all. That recent? I thought it was older. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-this-thread-please-identify-location-in-photo/547225/9 "2010-07-19T16:33:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You probably did the same thing I did-searched for all threads with the word “photo” in the title that he posted in. Nope. I searched for “Malta.” I remembered the thread, and its resolution, and I figured that Malta was not such a common word that it would return an unmanageable number of results. When I reread it and discovered that **PM** had posted in it, I figured that was a bonus.