The Hunt For A Yellow Double Decker Arch Bridge
Oct 6, 2020 11:42:31 GMT
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Post by KitsuneFox on Oct 6, 2020 11:42:31 GMT
This is a recording of how I found a difficult to locate bridge using nothing but an image from the internet.
Back during the toilet paper shortage of 2020, a promotional image from Tykables was circulating the internet as a meme. The picture caught my attention due to a distinctive yellow arch bridge in the background.
I first went to Google Image and searched for "yellow arch bridge" without any luck. I than used alternative search terms, and didn't get very far. From that point I than scoured Tykables in hopes that there was some information leading to potential locations of the bridge. No luck. I then went to Google text search and spent a long time searching. I wasted many MANY hours going down rabbit holes in search for that yellow arch bridge, but didn't turn up any useful information. As a last-ditch attempt, I cropped the Tykables image so it only showed the bridge and than did a reverse Google Image search. Sadly this did not yield any result eather.
Off-and-on I continued the hunt for almost 4 months, until one day I turned up a blog post showing the bridge. The person was writing about how he was was a bit homesick for Chicago.
The post did not mention where the bridge was, however after going through this individual's other blog posts, I quickly determined he was in Taipei, Taiwan .
I quickly went over to GM and looked for a bridge that matched what was shown in the Tykables promotional image. It took a while, but I eventually found the bridge - the 'First MacArthur Bridge' .
MAP: goo.gl/maps/f8UGQpaRXTHy9gSp6
Street View: goo.gl/maps/X5oGVotNakmk47tP9
Now the only question was, where was the promotional image taken from? In Street View I lined up the perspective as closely as I could to the promotional image from Tykables and looked 180 degrees behind me. I noted rows of relatively tall buildings, and quickly determined the image, with an unobstructed view, was taken from somewhere in the first row.
Thanks to the distinctive hand railing in the picture, it did not take very long in Street View to find the location: the Waterfront Hotel.
Street View: goo.gl/maps/g4coJpAG8sv3wenVA
I lastly used promotional images from the hotel's website to verify the balconies matched that was shown in the Tykables image.
Back during the toilet paper shortage of 2020, a promotional image from Tykables was circulating the internet as a meme. The picture caught my attention due to a distinctive yellow arch bridge in the background.
I first went to Google Image and searched for "yellow arch bridge" without any luck. I than used alternative search terms, and didn't get very far. From that point I than scoured Tykables in hopes that there was some information leading to potential locations of the bridge. No luck. I then went to Google text search and spent a long time searching. I wasted many MANY hours going down rabbit holes in search for that yellow arch bridge, but didn't turn up any useful information. As a last-ditch attempt, I cropped the Tykables image so it only showed the bridge and than did a reverse Google Image search. Sadly this did not yield any result eather.
Off-and-on I continued the hunt for almost 4 months, until one day I turned up a blog post showing the bridge. The person was writing about how he was was a bit homesick for Chicago.
The post did not mention where the bridge was, however after going through this individual's other blog posts, I quickly determined he was in Taipei, Taiwan .
I quickly went over to GM and looked for a bridge that matched what was shown in the Tykables promotional image. It took a while, but I eventually found the bridge - the 'First MacArthur Bridge' .
MAP: goo.gl/maps/f8UGQpaRXTHy9gSp6
Street View: goo.gl/maps/X5oGVotNakmk47tP9
Now the only question was, where was the promotional image taken from? In Street View I lined up the perspective as closely as I could to the promotional image from Tykables and looked 180 degrees behind me. I noted rows of relatively tall buildings, and quickly determined the image, with an unobstructed view, was taken from somewhere in the first row.
Thanks to the distinctive hand railing in the picture, it did not take very long in Street View to find the location: the Waterfront Hotel.
Street View: goo.gl/maps/g4coJpAG8sv3wenVA
I lastly used promotional images from the hotel's website to verify the balconies matched that was shown in the Tykables image.
