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OK I found a place with a weird name on test drive unlimited. I think it's around Honolulu somewhere, possibly near the airport, but it isn't right next to the coast. I remember it was a small village/unincorporated community. The spelling was something like "a'la'la'a" but I can't remember the first letter.
The problem is that I don't have the game anymore. Please help me remember it! It does exist, it had it's own wikipedia page but I can't find it now... I'm also pretty sure I've found it on google maps at some point as well.
There are only nineteen letters in the Hawaiian alphabet and most of them don't look like they'd fit well with that string of letters. Try an "H", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P" and "W". One of those might work.
Honolulu and a large part of Oahu is one huge mass of housing, businesses and shops, there isn't a lot of separation between any of them and there aren't any "incorporated" villages or anything. Most everything is the city and county of Honolulu unless it is pretty far out from the center. We use place names just so we know which part of the beast we are referring to, a lot like "ear" "tail" and "foot" would be in referring to the beast. Anything near the airport would be Honolulu and the place names could refer to a housing area, a shopping area or just the general geographic area but on the ground, there won't be any visible boundries.
There are only nineteen letters in the Hawaiian alphabet and most of them don't look like they'd fit well with that string of letters. Try an "H", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P" and "W". One of those might work.
Hmm. That's six more letters than I learned in my Hawaiian language courses.
For the record, the Hawaiian alphabet consists of five vowels - A, E, I, O, U, seven consonants - H, K, L, M, N, P, W, and the glottal stop or 'okina.
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Honolulu and a large part of Oahu is one huge mass of housing, businesses and shops, there isn't a lot of separation between any of them and there aren't any "incorporated" villages or anything. Most everything is the city and county of Honolulu unless it is pretty far out from the center. We use place names just so we know which part of the beast we are referring to, a lot like "ear" "tail" and "foot" would be in referring to the beast. Anything near the airport would be Honolulu and the place names could refer to a housing area, a shopping area or just the general geographic area but on the ground, there won't be any visible boundries.
The entire island of O'ahu comprises the "City and County of Honolulu." Many O'ahu neighborhoods like 'Aiea, Kailua, Kane'ohe, Pearl City, La'ie, Kapolei, etc. have signs at their boundaries.
Here are links to a couple of reference guides to place names in Hawai'i that might be helpful.
Thanks, Jonah! No wonder I couldn't remember what the rest of the letters were! My list did seem a bit short. I shoulda looked it up instead of trying to remember it.
What is "test drive" anyway? A digital GPS type map?
Thanks, Jonah! No wonder I couldn't remember what the rest of the letters were! My list did seem a bit short. I shoulda looked it up instead of trying to remember it.
What is "test drive" anyway? A digital GPS type map?
Its a video game. Its been out since at least the Sega Genesis. Probably even before that.
this specific version of it (pretty new) is based on a semi-accurate virtual version of oahu. the idea is that you can free-drive anywhere on the island, but the geography/sites aren't exactly right.
At least Oahu has lots of roads to drive on. If they had the game sited on any of the other islands folks could probably "test drive" all the roads too soon and get bored.
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I'm also pretty sure I've found it on google maps at some point as well.
