Guess That Geographical Location—March 20, 2008

At Jason’s request, a cornfield somewhere in Iowa.  Good luck.

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Photo via Google Maps.

But seriously, have a wicked-difficult reader submission.  Courtesy of 3rd Way.  (Don’t worry, xx, yours is in the queue).

Photo via Google Maps.

Congrats to MichaelP.

Answer below the fold.

This is the Great Mosque of Djenné, in Djenné, Mali.

Oh, and the cornfield is here.

1. The top one is just a close up of corduroy pants.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 0841 hrs




2. The first one is a corn field in Iowa!

   The second one reminds me of a History or Discovery channel show I saw on restorations of a Buddhist temple.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1244 hrs




3. Any architects out there they might be able to figure out what the second one is.  It is an architecturally, religously and historically significant building in a remote corner of the globe.  It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

   Jed made it even more difficult by deleting the context around it.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1301 hrs




4. Old Towns of Djenné, Mali
   Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation of Islam. Its traditional houses, of which nearly 2,000 have survived, are built on hillocks (toguere) as protection from the seasonal floods.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1432 hrs




5. Oh, and The Great Mosque at Djenne is the largest mud brick building in the world.

   google maps:
   13.905221, -4.555453

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1446 hrs




6. ok, now for that corn field… hmmm

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1557 hrs




7. The UNESCO hint was a little too much I guess.  Good work Michael.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1649 hrs




8. Thanks. Your UNESCO hint confirm my hunch.  Before the hint, I was scrolling the satellite images of Timbuktu.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1703 hrs




9. Heh, I used to live about 5 miles south of that cornfield.

   Posted by HeatherRadish on March 20, 2008 at 2042 hrs




10. Hmmm interesting.. Google maps uses different maps than google earth.

    That corn field on google earth isn’t the same.

    Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 2258 hrs




11. It’s there in Google Earth.

    41° 40’ 15.00” N
    93° 51’ 36.00” W

    Posted by Jed on March 21, 2008 at 0531 hrs




12. ah, you’re right… I was one road too far north.

    Wrong cornfield....  lol

    Posted by on March 21, 2008 at 0941 hrs