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Internet Historian is humorously documenting that it is possible to pinpoint the worldwide location of a flag with only the blue sky behind, or inside a hut los
by laurent92 5y ago
Internet Historian is humorously documenting that it is possible to pinpoint the worldwide location of a flag with only the blue sky behind, or inside a hut lost in lapland, or inside a flat without outside light, or even a stone buried somewhere in the world (South of Spain). https://youtu.be/vw9zyxm860Q https://youtu.be/vw9zyxm860Q
I understand it would be possible with a photo to guess which side a rock faces, thanks to the sun/shadows, and then find all the rocks pointing this way in a country using satellite image, and filtering those which are not currently at war etc.
- AlotOfReading 5y agoTo the best of my knowledge, you can only determine latitude with shadows (and even then, current state of the art requires multiple photos to resolve ambiguities). To determine longitude, you need to correlate time or match features somehow. The flagpole search did that with flight paths and honking, which isn't applicable here. Vegetation would probably be a more useful hint if imgur didn't compress the detail out of it, but be particularly challenging regardless at the true latitude.