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[alloverthemap]

Thanks for watching! Kiitos katsomisesta!

[nellitheretrogamer]

For some odd reason, I know something about the roof building regulations in Finland. I have no idea where I've picked up this information and why, but here goes: one square meter of roof must be able to carry a load of at least 160kg. In specific parts of the roof, the requirement may be more than that. In older buildings, the roof may be carry as much as 320kg per square meter. That's how much snow can weigh.

The reason why roofs of big buildings are not sloped is precisely so that the snow wouldn't fall on its own. Every year a few people die because snow drops on them. Like, that 160kg from the sixth floor. Snow must be dropped in a controlled manner so that they make sure that people don't walk too close to the building during that time.

Also: if you see red-and-yellow-striped wooden barriers about a meter away from the wall during the spring, there is a reason why they are there. Don't go closer to the building than that. They are placed there as a precaution if the weather is such that snow may drop on its own.

[aeschynanthus_sp]

"City" is a misnomer when the centres of all Finnish places called _kaupunki_ are involved. The smallest _kaupunki_ in Finland is Kaskinen with fewer than 2, 000 inhabitants (it was founded in 1785, though). I would say "town centres" or "city and town centres".

I always request my maps on Geoguessr: "Hotels in Finland, whole country" and "Hardly and slightly interesting buildings". Then there's a new European map "Multilingual Europe", which may be hard in rural locations.

Notes in a long form:


The location in Kokkola was certainly near the centre but I don't know Kokkola well enough to say if it is "in the centre".

For fun, the founding dates of the towns featured in the video: Vantaa 1974, Espoo 1972, Imatra 1971, Kokkola 1620, Kuopio 1775.

They all have much older historical roots, certainly, but those are the years they were founded/got city rights. Vantaa was earlier "Helsinki district", a rural area surrounding the town. The medieval parish of _Helsinge_ is probably from the 14th century, and its medieval church (dedicated to St. Lawrence) is inside the area of modern Vantaa.

There are also medieval churches in Espoo (Espoo cathedral) and Kokkola (Kaarlela church). The parish of Kuopio was founded in 1552, the current church (Kuopio cathedral) is from 1816.

Imatra is a peculiar case. The municipality was founded in 1948. The date is a few years after the wars, and its foundation is connected with the former parish/municipality of Jääski. The central village of Jääski and also the industrial Enso were lost to the Soviet Union (naturally, they are a part of Russia today). Eventually a new municipality of Imatra, named after the mighty Imatrankoski rapids, was formed consisting of the territory of Jääski and small areas of Ruokolahti and Joutseno.

[Donanzador]

@2:00 Vantaan Aikuisopisto = Vantaa institute of adult education. School that offers a variety of vocational classes and courses for adults.
@18:48 Kuopio has about 124k people, 8th most populated in Finland. Although this includes the entirety of the municipality, which due to multiple municipality mergers includes a lot of rural areas and smaller built up areas surrounding the main population center, which on its own is about 94k.

[Videottakaperin]

Well played.
4:10 Answer: Yes, they shovel the snow in the wintertime from the roof of those flat apartment buildings.
16:39 That's ad for KuPS which is the Veikkausliiga club from Kuopio. They just progressed to next second round in the UECL qualifiers. I have a couple of suggestions for Finnish maps to play. "Finland City Centers" which is a new map made by me inspired by this video heh. I also made a "Every Finnish City & Town" that contains only handpicked locations from literally every town in Finland that's available in street view. Other ones I would suggest is "Hotels of Finland (Suomen Hotellit)", "Alepa grocery stores - Suomi Finland" Also working on city games as of right now there's "Espoo, Finland Suomi", "Vantaa, Suomi Finland" and improved "Tampere, Finland (Handpicked locations!)". Working next on Turku city game.

[finnishculturalchannel]

The main US imports; parts, bikes and kickboxing. Puistokatu (Park Road) and Kauppakatu (Shopping Street) won't get you far, because those you will find in every city. There is drainage on flat roofs. They are less costly to build, but there are sloped roofs and also on (Finland's relative) tall buildings. Roofs related water damages are 5th on the list and those usually have something to do with skylights, heavy rains and other issues why the water doesn't go into drainage from the roof as planned. Snow stoppers are installed to roofs so snow won't fall down from them. If the snow piles too heavily on the roof, the snow has to be manually cleared from the roof. Winter also shows, if the roof has a leaking heat insulation, which leads to notable icicles: "Tervetuloa stadiin lumitöihin...". Reinforced concrete precast structures replaced brick building. Wood is making a comeback though: "Why Finland is Building a Wood City". There was a news in the media just recently about how the city centers shouldn't be build too compact and how there should be space for trees and parks. Originally this was an architectural guideline for making the people feel at home—especially those moving to cities from the countryside—but nowadays also for reducing the temperature during heatwaves. The traditional Finnish dream house is a summer cottage on the lake shore in the middle of the city. In the smaller cities/towns you have to keep an eye on the surrounding to spot the city center or you will drive by and miss it: "The most pessimistic town in the world - BBC REEL". Since Adidas was mentioned and the Olympics are starting on Friday: "The story of Karhu : The most forgotten sneakers brand".

[ohmp]

You played well! On the second round you saw the S-Market where I most often buy groceries. That restaurant Ju-Fu is a quite nice Chinese.
An advanced hint for the last round: Kuopio has those quite big streetsigns with all uppercase letters and with a black frame. Lahti has similar but without the black frame.

[hilfdsgfuiw]

There are drains on top of the flat roofs and they aren't as bad nowadays.