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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
Would it help if I said that the black object in the lower left is a hotel?
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Not really, but I finally pinned down the technical factors -- basically, the inclination of the street grid w.r.t the orthographic projection, which varies from east to west.
It's Las Vegas, NV. The major road is Las Vegas Ave (a.k.a The Strip). The cross street would appear to be Tropicana, with the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the right of the Strip and the (current) site of the New York, New York on the left of the Strip. That was NOT the New York, New York at the time of the photo, however -- it hadn't even broken ground yet. IMO that's not a building but a body of water; it even shows reflections.