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What kind of tools do you generally use? I’m assuming a search engine to identify particular landmarks/stores/etc, and personal knowledge, but what else?
by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
What kind of tools do you generally use? I’m assuming a search engine to identify particular landmarks/stores/etc, and personal knowledge, but what else?
- gregschlom 8y agoI heard of people looking at the position of stars (on night photos) and the sun to guess the latitude. There was a story during the 2016 US election campaign where someone had a webcam pointed at a flag for some of the parties, and some folks managed to find the location by observing the stars and drove there and changed the flag, or something like that. Edit: link to the story: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-good-thing-pulls-off-the-heist-of-the-century1 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...
- noir_lord 8y agoMy favourite if a little harsh description of 4chan is weaponised autism. Literally in one case https://www.quora.com/How-did-4chan-get-the-coordinates-of-an-ISIS-training-camp-and-send-them-to-Russian-officials https://www.quora.com/How-did-4chan-get-the-coordinates-of-a...
- Kagerjay 8y agoThere's a tomscott video on this during the most recent eclipse, how people determined his location. Its got some really interesting tidbits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ