#city flags

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Ok so I don’t think I have seen people talk about Roswell NM flag.

But look at it

Look how Pog this flag is

It’s like 10 times more awesome when you know that you can see the Ruidosa mountains from Roswell, straight up looks like you’re looking to the mountains from town. And there’s so many more tiny details that I absolutely love about this flag. 

[uwudonoodle]

I got mildly interested in flag design after watching videos like this...

... and this.

Anyway, the North American Vexillological Association (people who study flag design) voted Pocatello Idaho as the worst city flag in the country. To be fair, it was truly terrible.

A few years ago, Pocatello took that judgement to heart, and finally decided to redesign their flag. This is their new flag, which is lovely.

Anyway, I'm saying all this to show you a design that they considered, but ultimately dropped in favor of the red mountain above.

I think this flag design is so cool and unique, and just deserves to see the light of day. It fits perfectly because Pocatello is the "crossroads of the west". This diagonal cross hatch design just makes me happy, and I kind of wish it had been chosen. Maybe something similar can make it onto another official flag someday.

[gortius-viii]

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria vs. Biesca

Ahoy-hoy, maties

So, you've probably seen the recent developments in Twitter... that has made me hurry a bit up in passing over some of the content from my Twitter to over here, today, the fact that a 1500 people town in northernmost Aragón has a better flag than a 300000 people mayor city.

How is it that Biesca, a town of 1500 has this INCREDIBLE FLAG (1), but I don’t know, Las Palmas, has to conform with this thing (2)?

With this I don't mean to say that vexillological quality should be proportional to the population of the place, nothing further than the truth, it just shows the laziness to make a effective and visually pleasing symbol for the city. This is no easy task, because Las Palmas is surrounded by great symbolism, such as the flag of Gran Canaria, Canarias and the UDLP [Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, the local football team]. These aforementioned symbols (specially the last one) often cast shadow upon any endemic symbol of the city.

A shorter post today, but the other idea I had in mind was to make a mega-post full of polls, but I just realised that you can only put ONE poll per post.

Do you still want me to make three different posts, each with one poll?

YES!

Not worth it

Voting ended onJul 25, 2023

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