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Can I pinpoint the EXACT location of my fans using a single image? (Patreon)

Published:
2021-03-18 16:55:54
Edited:
2021-03-18 16:56:10
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2026-06
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Here it is! early exclusive early patreon access to the first episode of what I hope will be a popular series and an integral part of the Geowizard channel going forward, and you helped inspire it! Thanks to Ablewell, Ana and Alexander for sending in their photos. Let me know your thoughts on the video, what you liked and didn't like about it so that I can make adjustments for episode 2 and improve. That includes thumbnail and title. I probably won't be able to reply to everyone's comments but I sure as hell read them all!I do have over a hundred photos to get through in this series so I guess it's unlikely that if you send me a photo now that it will ever make one of the episodes, but you never know!I had a blast doing this. Hope you enjoy.

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Can I pinpoint the EXACT location of my fans using a single image?

A few weeks ago I successfully and swiftly identified the exact Bali swimming pool that a random Instagram model was snapped, following a request from an alleged victim of a catfish. I did this using a mixture of Geoguessr knowledge, Google Earth and Google's search engine. Following some dialogue with my impressed patreons, an idea was spawned. Why don't I make a series out of it where I try to successfully identify where my patreons/fans are using the small amounts of information that can be seen in the background? Here's the result.

Comments

ZackC__

I can already see Ludwig's reaction to this (;

Weston Titus

can i still send in a picture sometime soon? didnt get a chance to get one in yet

Ethan Brier

Yes! been looking forward to this!

Elliot Smith

pissing myself over when he said newfoundland, then always corrected it to labrador, for it to be newfoundland

el víctor

damn I took a picture a week ago and forgot to send It to you! Going to do it asap

Nicholas Van Buer

You want to draw the line vertical on the picture, since lines on the map represent the intersection between vertical planes and the surface of the earth. So all objects in the same look direction will line up vertically in the image. (Ignoring lens distortions . . .)

Paul Roddam

That was great! Looking forward to the next ones!

Angus Grant

Hell yeah. Been excited for this! Can't wait to see my pic (hopefully) in a future instalment

Vivalldi

For Anna's round (Stresa). Google Maps online 3d view shows how extreme that hill is. AFAICT that building you chose is correct

Sam Wiström

This was great! Feel a bit bummed that I forgot to send in a photo those weeks ago. Is there no other, more satisfying solution of revealing the answer live though? Geoguessr rounds, reveal unopened answer on the spot, etc?

Viniter

This is seriously impressive, especially the first one. That list of bridges was a find of the century! I'm not too sure about that "line to the centre of the image" technique, but it seems to be working, so what do I know...

Tyler Wrage

Absolutely insane! Still accepting photos? Might have a less populous area I can get you with.

Johannes Wiberg

This was excellent! If I have sent a picture and I didn't see it in your folder that you were looking at in the video, does that mean that you didn't get it, or that you excludet it for some reason? Or just that you received too many?

Edmo

Cool

Colin Webb

I believe the FBI are currently hiring. Attach your CV along with this video, I'm sure they will find something for you.

Blake Doble

I’m no expert on this, but I think the lines make more sense if you choose 2 points if interest and get the likes to intersect at the middle of the photo and then correlate it to google earth. Because otherwise different perspectives can influence the position.

Alexander Doyle

Hi Tom, I think you should have the people who submit photos send the coordinates of the picture in some way you can't see, then once you guess the coordinates after searching, you compare the two and maybe even give yourself a score. This way you don't have to end the search on a cliffhanger waiting for the person to tell you if you got the right place or not.

Nicholas Van Buer

Indeed, you can triangulate like this, but both lines should be vertical on the photo

Blake Doble

I was half way there. I can take confort in that!! 🤣

Joseph B

Can we see you playing some Runescape, I saw it on your desktop there!

coffeebean

haha I loved the meta Italy lake round. Nice throwback to HNTTE

Mark Furniss

You Sir, are a fucking genius !

Mary Angeline Gonzales

Love the vid! Als love the background music during the sped-up portions of the video! Is it your own music Tom?

rob d

+1

Andreas Wagner

Hi Tom, you could ask the people that sent in photos to encrypt a message with the coordinates as a key. You could then decrypt that message when you have found the location. The format must be exactly specified, for example latitude and longitude with 3 decimal places and separated by comma and a space, for example "12.345N, 6.789E". There are free online services for encryption and decryption such as https://encipher.it 3 decimal places means 111m at the equator and less than that at higher lattitudes.

Vitali

When googling you can use - to exclude something from the search. For example, “truss bridge -cartier”

Sam Wiström

It is, you can find it under Amynedd on spotify and youtube.

Johan Roos

"...western-looking caucasian guy..." dunno about that bruh

Beanzzz

I was thinking the same

Beanzzz

Can you ask the people submitting the images to provide the GPS coordinates in a text file you don't open until the end, so you can tell how well you did?

D0nut

Has this been taken down or is it just something on my end?

geowizard

It's now scheduled for YouTube release D0nut, I usually do this 20 minutes before hand and it will be released at 5:30 so just bad timing. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sunil Patel

The idea of this series is just stellar. Hope it makes a regular appearance on the channel!

Mairi

Oooh some of the other photos in that folder looked really interesting!! Please revisit them and make another video :D I want to see if you can get 100% completion of that whole folder!

Paul Wickward

Love this idea, can’t wait to see more episodes!

JeroenL

Same here

Sebastian

Wait... Is that Rollercoaster Tycoon on your desktop? How about some coaster creation content one day? 😁

Wayne Owen Humphreys

I enjoyed this it was very good.. will u be making more and asking for more pictures i would like to take part

Remi Barron

Maybe have patrons give you a quick hint of their area. If you can't find anything in the first look around (or if it's a ridiculously difficult image), you check the hint.

Andy Rogers

I noticed my photo on there, I’ll be very impressed if you get it.

Austin Abrams

A few weeks late, but I just watched this video. Regarding the straight-line approach, a few years ago me and my colleagues built http://www.geocalibration.org/ where, if you have a URL of an image, you can drag around points on the image, and corresponding points on a map, and it will do the camera calibration to figure out where the camera was and what the best zoom level it was. We used this to successfully find a lost grave in St Louis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Jane_Doe

Jonathan Funk

I greatly enjoyed watching this episode. ^_^ I'd love to submit a photo, where should I send it?