Originally published at: Champion "GeoGuesser" shows you how to find the location of a photo in a few minutes | Boing Boing
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Well, I’m glad the answer wasn’t just “look at the EXIF data…”
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The Bellingcat investigators do this kind of stuff all the time, locating criminals, oligarchs, warlords, and others from the most generic looking photos.
Their most recent tutorial is how they use “PeakVisor” mountaineering software to geolocate a spot based on the visible profiles of hills and mountains. In this case they used it to find the location of a grave.
They also wrote their own OSM search tool similar to overpass-turbo.eu, but customized more to their needs.
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Comparing the album cover to the street view photo, it looks like the local bin population has been drastically reduced by over-hunting.
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Including Robert Rundo, an American white supremacist hiding in eastern Europe who tried to make sure that his photos couldn’t be geolocated.
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I’m still trying to parse “professional GeoGuesser”.
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It is like those big-league, big-money Guess-the-number-of-beans-in-the jar guys.
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Seems like using ChatGPT takes a lot of the skill out of this - like using a dictionary to win a spelling bee.
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