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There was an article about that on HN in the last few weeks. I struggled to find that specific post, but I think this is the same story. https://www.theregister

• MontyCarloHall 3y ago
  >The model [uses] semantic geocells – bounded areas of land, similar to counties or provinces, that consider region-specific details like road markings, infrastructure quality, and street signs >The model can['t] pinpoint exactly where a street-level photo was taken; it can instead reliably figure out the country, and make a good guess, within 15 miles of the correct location, a lot of the time I could imagine that a more qualitative model like this one could be used to restrict the search space of a more quantitative model akin to the one I (very roughly) proposed.