If you don’t have anything in the foreground and need to find the location of the camera, do this: find pairs of features vertically aligned on the picture, ideally one close and one far away. For each pair, locate each feature on a map, and draw a straight line between the two. All of those lines will intersect where the camera was.
I did this to find the location of a large cave. It was in an area that I'm familiar with but the rock climbers that frequent the area were posting obviously fake GPS coordinates. From screen-grabs of an internet video, I was able to shoot multiple lines from land features that lined up like iron sights on a gun using Google Earth. Viola! Where those lines crossed was the location of the cave.
This is the cave in question: ua-cam.com/video/6l1JJ3GqeGw/v-deo.html I know the area well enough to know that it's overlooking Crater Island to the north. The GPS coordinates being posted were on the south side of this mountain, this view is looking north. Also, the prominent dome-shaped rock on the far left was a very big clue.
I was packing up some of my things and this came on. Five minutes later I had forgotten about packing and was watching right to the end of the video. I looked around and and realised what I was supposed to do. I really liked your video Ben. Thanks for posting.
good morning my friend, thanks for the content, I'm a private investigator here in Brazil, and many of your content helped us to close some cases, without leaving home... Thank you very much, long life..."SEMPER PARATUS"
I just found your yt channel, and I have to admit that I´m astonished for your high quality videos and for your educational style. You´re helping me a lot to learn about OSINT. Thank you!
Thank you for the tutorial. Watching from Myanmar here. Trying to make video about current situation in Myanmar. Really didn’t expected to see Myanmar in this video.
@@MarcanthonyTho thank you. It all started with the coup on Feb 1st. The military took down the civilian government and brutally crack down on the protesters. Now all the civilians are like cattle to the slaughter.
This is Crazy! I love these investigations for photo locations, take time and a cup of coffe to find out where the place is, - and it is only 5 Kilometres away from my home 😀. Very cool video 👍
Now the hard stuff. Cross Row in Lemington-upon-Tyne England is a street where my ancestors lived which no longer exists. I used an old photo from a history society. It showed a brick chimney stack still existing and a row of single story bungalows. I used Google maps and street view to get the same view and using a building (now demolished) with a haystack roof, I could triangulate Cross Row. I was awesome to visit England and stand where my ancestors lived. That was 7 years ago. Some times you have to use old geographical survey maps mid to late 1800s. It's fun comparing these maps to Google. you see how accurate they were and some roads have been straightened since. Overall I really enjoyed your work, but had a laugh at the Easter egg building reference as the locals call it the gherkin and I call it a bullet. The other buildings are the shard and the thumb drive. I have a 1951 family photo with penciled on the back "on holidays". I think it may be Blackpool but the railway station from the time has long ago been demolished. All the best from DownUnder.
Try posting a copy of your family photo online or searching for other photos of the station you think it is. For a photo taken in 1906 by my grandfather, labeled "CNR depot, Saskatoon, 1906", I googled that caption and within minutes found several photos in the collection of the Saskatoon Public Library's Local History Department. Within 24 hours, I had asked if they had any information about the subject and learned that about 1910, the building shown had been demolished and replaced with a larger one. Decades later, that was also demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. That explained why I couldn't find it on Google Maps, even though there was a legible sign for a local business in the background of my shot, and none of the several current locations for that company on Google lined up with any railway tracks.
Hi Ben it would be interesting to know how far the service station was from the Hotel. In context I would guess its about 500 km away from the hotel as it would be around the first time they would wanted to refill on gas. Could be a way to safe a bit of time on the search
I think to be fair, that Esso station would have been very difficult to locate with only the one image for information. It is the prior post and association to the location in Munich that drastically narrowed down your search.
I'm actually running a competition for geolocating some stuff (theme based). It's in Polish, but I guess anyone can get it since location to find is always at the end of the video. Monthly prize is ~100$, small, but my channels is not monetized :D. Lots of locations can be found using Google Lens. Even really uncommon ones. If there are buildings with some features, lens is quite good at finding it, and gives you the name. Then it's just matter of typing the name in the google maps and sometimes even it shows maps location in the results. Fortunately it's quite easy to fool :D.
At 08:18, I paused your video. Found the place. (and it is clear you knew ahead of doing the view where it was from hoew you descrived he round railing likley on round building - a round railing could be on a round balcony on a perfectly square building BTW :-) Also notable; this photo no longer possible. The cherkin is no longer bisible from that angle due to some other building haveing been built in frront. From aligning between the Gherkin and Sky Garden ( looking at its slant to ensure I was at right side of it), I moved back. Another hint is that on the image below the location, the street points to the Sky Garden building. I found it by progressively step]ping back in the angle that would let me see the gherkion and sky gardern (if that building didn't hiude the gherkin) until I found the building that was a rectangle with rounded corners and with a rectangle on its roof (on right of image) and when I look back, saw the place where person took selfie. VerificatioN; the strange roof of building on left of image, and of course the railing which, for London, has enough resolution in Google Maps to sufficuently see. OK, now I shall unpause and see your path to finding the location :-)
In India 15 year old guys do this to get live update about their crush.... and hunt the other boys like osama bin laden just from their room. You lecture was good.
I was a bit confused when I looked at the st pauls picture, the "round building" at 09:51 is not visible today as it is obscured by the Bloomberg building which was completed in 2017 so we know the picture was taken before then. We could probably check other buildings in the shot to narrow the date down more.
Hi, what software do you use to zoom in on pictures? I use Paint 3D but it is not very good at zooming in with quality. What platform do you use to zoom?
@@nai8374 did you watch the video? I drew a route between two points and went along the route looking for all Esso petrol stations were not in an urban area, had a clearing, and a large roof over the bowsers. Pretty straightforward, unfortunately there’s no shortcuts with some of this work.
@@nai8374 Yeah I get what you are saying. I actually stopped doing that fast forward in recent videos because of this, I often have a thought process that I personally don't think is interesting, but then it leads me to a location. So to explain a bit further, I was zoomed pretty far out on the map when I was looking, and only zoomed into a gas station when the conditions were right. The conditions I had in my brain at the time, that would allow me to find possible locations from a zoomed out perspective were primarily: 1. A station next to the highway (on the right side as they're driving to London, in Germany) 2. In between towns or not near a built-up area (you can see the empty spots pretty well when you're zoomed out) 3. On the right side of the highway there's a large clearing and then a forest, or thicket of trees. It was quite far from the station given its appearance in the original image, so I had another reference point. This was helpful as you can really be quite zoomed out to see the trees like that. 4. I also had a sneak suspicion that they wouldn't have stopped near their point of departure, given it was a professional driving team, so I imagined they were stopping close to, or near, halfway to stretch legs, go to the toilet and fill up. Maybe I was bias there, but I had a strong opinion that it 'could be the case' . 5. When I started looking at the maps I noticed that any stations near the highway, where there were farms adjacent they still had at least some clumps of trees, whereas this was a straight forest with nothing in between, so I had a suspicion it could be a body of water. Again, lot of assumptions and a bit of guess who as to what you're looking for, but most of them were quite practical. Whenever I am searching for something, especially over a large area, I'll prioritise larger features that I can view on a map when more zoomed out, rather than getting to streetview for every option. It saves a lot of time for me! Hope that helps!
Hi Ben, I have a picture of a house with a Google Maps stamp on it. I need to trace the exact location (I only know the city and the area it's in). Reversed picture search didn't give any results, which is odd. Is there a way to find it?
Ben, love your series! Haven't finished this video yet but...this first photo looks photoshopped..you may find this location but i am not sure they were there!
You did not explain how to get the camera view to change for the Yosemite sho in the video. I cannot seem to find any button or tool in google maps. Is this a Google Earth thing?
Hey dude. I've been enjoying this series so far and really wanna try it out. But i cant seem to find more images to try osint on. Do you know any source that can get me this ? I don't wanna do this to any of my friends cause it's a privacy invasion 😅. It would help big time of i got some source. Thanks ^_^
Not the same technique but I had an ex girlfriend that would go on and on about this magical place she went to one time a few years back on four wheelers. and how she hates that she cant remember how to get there. Well, one day she was ranting about it and she mentioned she even has a pic of her and her cousins sitting on this huge rock the last day of their trip. I ask, "is it on your phone?" She says, "Yea" So I say, "Show me..." She pulls it up, I take her phone, look the pic over for a bit. Then, I open the additional options on the phones photos app with the 3 little dots drop down menu (she had android) and scroll down to the GPS coordinates of the photo, copy, paste into maps, hand her back the phone and ask, "is that the place?" The look on her face was like a God just rode in on a frickin pegasus unincorn... Yes i got head that day....
Hello sir. Will you help me if i'll give you video I want location I want to know where that video have been created Please help me out its a request sir
How did you find the station at Baden Baden? Brute force by going along the routes at low enough antotude to spot ahy Esso petrol station? Did you ask Mr Google for all Esso stations? Seeing the image, I was concerned that it did not have the Esso logo on the side of the roof sicne it is normall on the left side of the roof over pumps. (aka: it could have been a former Esso station that only removed the logo, so wouldn't be listed as ESSO). Also, when you did find it, I was going "quick, go street vew, go street view, and then "why isn't he going street view? " :-) Street View would be first thing I would do to verify site.
Gas companies aren't keen on keeping competing companies colors or logos on their property, they quite quickly and easily change the location to match their style. They're oligarchs, they don't second-hand use anything. The station at Baden Baden is an ideal stopping point. If you just imagine any person trying to drive a long distance, they're going to have to stop at some point either for fuel or for comfort, or both. If you know the gas station they stopped at, it wouldn't even be hard to say "esso station near xyz city" and there are only a limited number of Esso stations between point a and point b. And you can logically deduce a relative distance from point a to the gas station based on the average mpg of cars today. Ideally what you need is the common sense you claim to have but clearly lack in the final paragraph of your comment.
We have a situation here.. Here in Pakistan , satellite view is not as yours ! i mean we only see the routes not the people..Even if we take a picture , there are just imaginary lines that shows streets.. Might be that view is restricted due to security reasons !
I thought about this when America was tracking down Osama Bin Laden, only I was going to map the terrain in his photo & match it up with google earth spot elevations.
Hey, my girlfriend was selling stuff on offer up for a yard sale. And the person that wanted to buy this Argyle funko for $10. So they start talking about the payment and my gf said cashapp so they exchanged numbers or smth and the person was gonna pay $20 and the stranger said they sent $50 but she didn’t get anything (next thing we know) he sends a threat message with a graphic video and I wanted to see if anyone wanted to help me out because there is (houses in the background)
Could you please elaborate the steps you followed after you found thr oil company and the possible roads they might have taken. In the video ite conclusion is slightly abrupt. I understand that you did this to keep the video short. But many people would be keen to know the steps
there is software witch tells all forensic data of immage, things like witch camera it was taken on and default picture no. resolution and even GPS coordinates absolutely all phones and digital cameras has it. Please do not waste time comparing trees and builings in bacground. Have a nice day!
Yep, covered that in one of my first videos. It’s called metadata (or exif). Almost every social media platform removes this data upon upload, so good luck sticking with that 😬
You also mentioned checking EXIF in the video, but didn’t go into detail, assuming everyone knows that obvious step, and also that it’s usually stripped these days (for years, actually). At the beginning of his campaign, Trump actually left the Twitter location tag feature on and everyone could track his location every tweet. Which was quite often at that time. It was one of the things that made you realize it was really him tweeting and that he had no tech people on staff. You could even catch him lying about his location sometimes.
If you don’t have anything in the foreground and need to find the location of the camera, do this: find pairs of features vertically aligned on the picture, ideally one close and one far away. For each pair, locate each feature on a map, and draw a straight line between the two. All of those lines will intersect where the camera was.
I did this to find the location of a large cave. It was in an area that I'm familiar with but the rock climbers that frequent the area were posting obviously fake GPS coordinates. From screen-grabs of an internet video, I was able to shoot multiple lines from land features that lined up like iron sights on a gun using Google Earth. Viola! Where those lines crossed was the location of the cave.
This is the cave in question: ua-cam.com/video/6l1JJ3GqeGw/v-deo.html
I know the area well enough to know that it's overlooking Crater Island to the north. The GPS coordinates being posted were on the south side of this mountain, this view is looking north. Also, the prominent dome-shaped rock on the far left was a very big clue.
@@Skank_and_Gutterboynice!
I was packing up some of my things and this came on. Five minutes later I had forgotten about packing and was watching right to the end of the video. I looked around and and realised what I was supposed to do. I really liked your video Ben. Thanks for posting.
Haha I hope you got those things eventually packed!
good morning my friend, thanks for the content, I'm a private investigator here in Brazil, and many of your content helped us to close some cases, without leaving home... Thank you very much, long life..."SEMPER PARATUS"
you just arent though
@@dodoservicesxbox3608You dont even have a job. Private investigators arent even that rare.
boa mano, mais um br aq hehe
could u share some of how you guys operate? goals? process of investigating? how you guys document the investigation?
Great video ! Learned more in 30 mins than one would in 30 days without quality resources, like this one.
You are very welcome. I am glad you found it helpful!
same
I’ve used these services on Twitter before! Lol
This is actually good info for anyone to simply be AWARE OF. Stay safe.
Awareness is key. Thank you!
I just found your yt channel, and I have to admit that I´m astonished for your high quality videos and for your educational style. You´re helping me a lot to learn about OSINT. Thank you!
Wow, thank you! 🙏
Ben. Thank you so much for the series. Really useful for anyone who wants to start with OSINT. Look forward to many more videos. Great work
Glad you like them!
Thank you for the tutorial. Watching from Myanmar here. Trying to make video about current situation in Myanmar. Really didn’t expected to see Myanmar in this video.
You are so very welcome. Please don't hesitate to contact me on my email, or through my Twitter at @bendobrown if you would like any assistance.
What is the current situation?
@@MarcanthonyTho Total chaos. Murder, rape, arbitrary arrests, torture and may unspeakable things committing by the military.
@@co_motion I will be praying for you, Samuel and for your family. What is the reason for these crimes going on?
@@MarcanthonyTho thank you. It all started with the coup on Feb 1st. The military took down the civilian government and brutally crack down on the protesters. Now all the civilians are like cattle to the slaughter.
This is Crazy! I love these investigations for photo locations, take time and a cup of coffe to find out where the place is, - and it is only 5 Kilometres away from my home 😀. Very cool video 👍
I have attempted to locate places from photos. It's like a puzzle and enjoyable.
the jealous girlfriend's tool of perfection
@@LawrenceReitanProbably because you're gay
Tool of perv
Now the hard stuff. Cross Row in Lemington-upon-Tyne England is a street where my ancestors lived which no longer exists. I used an old photo from a history society. It showed a brick chimney stack still existing and a row of single story bungalows. I used Google maps and street view to get the same view and using a building (now demolished) with a haystack roof, I could triangulate Cross Row. I was awesome to visit England and stand where my ancestors lived. That was 7 years ago. Some times you have to use old geographical survey maps mid to late 1800s. It's fun comparing these maps to Google. you see how accurate they were and some roads have been straightened since.
Overall I really enjoyed your work, but had a laugh at the Easter egg building reference as the locals call it the gherkin and I call it a bullet. The other buildings are the shard and the thumb drive. I have a 1951 family photo with penciled on the back "on holidays". I think it may be Blackpool but the railway station from the time has long ago been demolished. All the best from DownUnder.
Try posting a copy of your family photo online or searching for other photos of the station you think it is. For a photo taken in 1906 by my grandfather, labeled "CNR depot, Saskatoon, 1906", I googled that caption and within minutes found several photos in the collection of the Saskatoon Public Library's Local History Department. Within 24 hours, I had asked if they had any information about the subject and learned that about 1910, the building shown had been demolished and replaced with a larger one. Decades later, that was also demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. That explained why I couldn't find it on Google Maps, even though there was a legible sign for a local business in the background of my shot, and none of the several current locations for that company on Google lined up with any railway tracks.
Man I’m a a mass media student …I love your videos❤
Thank you so much! Hope they help in your studies!
Hi Ben it would be interesting to know how far the service station was from the Hotel. In context I would guess its about 500 km away from the hotel as it would be around the first time they would wanted to refill on gas. Could be a way to safe a bit of time on the search
some of us urban explorers have used tricks like these for many years :]
@14:30 Myanmar photo, YOU CAN SEE a river! It's the green s shape at the top of the picture. A green line like that tells you there is water.
Absolutely fantastic video. Loved it
Thanks Adam! Much appreciated 🙏
I jsut love it how he always says on the picture in 3d view streetview to everyperson: oh hello, hi xD
So helpful man❤❤nice work dude👍
Glad it helped
This is informative, thank you mate.
I think to be fair, that Esso station would have been very difficult to locate with only the one image for information. It is the prior post and association to the location in Munich that drastically narrowed down your search.
OSINT is free for all, if you need to get information, you can get it with any resources available, otherwise you are boxing yourself in.
thanks dude. you‘re the best
You're welcome!
Your videos are fantastic! Thank you!!
You're very welcome!
I'm actually running a competition for geolocating some stuff (theme based). It's in Polish, but I guess anyone can get it since location to find is always at the end of the video. Monthly prize is ~100$, small, but my channels is not monetized :D.
Lots of locations can be found using Google Lens. Even really uncommon ones. If there are buildings with some features, lens is quite good at finding it, and gives you the name. Then it's just matter of typing the name in the google maps and sometimes even it shows maps location in the results.
Fortunately it's quite easy to fool :D.
Very educational. Instruction quality.
At 08:18, I paused your video. Found the place. (and it is clear you knew ahead of doing the view where it was from hoew you descrived he round railing likley on round building - a round railing could be on a round balcony on a perfectly square building BTW :-)
Also notable; this photo no longer possible. The cherkin is no longer bisible from that angle due to some other building haveing been built in frront.
From aligning between the Gherkin and Sky Garden ( looking at its slant to ensure I was at right side of it), I moved back. Another hint is that on the image below the location, the street points to the Sky Garden building. I found it by progressively step]ping back in the angle that would let me see the gherkion and sky gardern (if that building didn't hiude the gherkin) until I found the building that was a rectangle with rounded corners and with a rectangle on its roof (on right of image) and when I look back, saw the place where person took selfie.
VerificatioN; the strange roof of building on left of image, and of course the railing which, for London, has enough resolution in Google Maps to sufficuently see.
OK, now I shall unpause and see your path to finding the location :-)
Cool, I do this sort of stuff out of curiosity sometimes when watching dashcam videos :D
Thank you for the great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Truly fascinating. Thank you.
Thank you for these!
Glad you like them!
In India 15 year old guys do this to get live update about their crush.... and hunt the other boys like osama bin laden just from their room.
You lecture was good.
I was a bit confused when I looked at the st pauls picture, the "round building" at 09:51 is not visible today as it is obscured by the Bloomberg building which was completed in 2017 so we know the picture was taken before then. We could probably check other buildings in the shot to narrow the date down more.
You’re a legend
Thanks Joey!
Thankyou that was excellent to watch
Thanks Matthew - I hope it helps!
I have an image of a structure it’s a resort I don’t have address but I was wondering if the image could be identified from what’s out there
That was brilliant
Very cool!
RED BULL 🤣
Brilliant tutorial, Ben!
Glad you enjoyed it!
tx. good information. a new follower here now.
Welcome 🙏
Hi, what software do you use to zoom in on pictures? I use Paint 3D but it is not very good at zooming in with quality. What platform do you use to zoom?
I use the in-built preview on mac!
Wow you're super good at this! Very impressive to follow along Ben :)
Thanks so much!
25:22 Wait, how did you find the Esso station after getting a suggested route from Google, to London?
I went through every Esso petrol station along the route 🤓
@@Bendobrown and you found them through 'walking' on streetview all those thousands of miles? Or how did you find every Esso petrol station? 🙂
@@nai8374 did you watch the video? I drew a route between two points and went along the route looking for all Esso petrol stations were not in an urban area, had a clearing, and a large roof over the bowsers. Pretty straightforward, unfortunately there’s no shortcuts with some of this work.
@@Bendobrown yes, but at 25:20 it only says 'I'm going to fast forward a little bit' and then magically the Esso station is found 🤷🏼♀
@@nai8374 Yeah I get what you are saying. I actually stopped doing that fast forward in recent videos because of this, I often have a thought process that I personally don't think is interesting, but then it leads me to a location.
So to explain a bit further, I was zoomed pretty far out on the map when I was looking, and only zoomed into a gas station when the conditions were right.
The conditions I had in my brain at the time, that would allow me to find possible locations from a zoomed out perspective were primarily:
1. A station next to the highway (on the right side as they're driving to London, in Germany)
2. In between towns or not near a built-up area (you can see the empty spots pretty well when you're zoomed out)
3. On the right side of the highway there's a large clearing and then a forest, or thicket of trees. It was quite far from the station given its appearance in the original image, so I had another reference point. This was helpful as you can really be quite zoomed out to see the trees like that.
4. I also had a sneak suspicion that they wouldn't have stopped near their point of departure, given it was a professional driving team, so I imagined they were stopping close to, or near, halfway to stretch legs, go to the toilet and fill up. Maybe I was bias there, but I had a strong opinion that it 'could be the case' .
5. When I started looking at the maps I noticed that any stations near the highway, where there were farms adjacent they still had at least some clumps of trees, whereas this was a straight forest with nothing in between, so I had a suspicion it could be a body of water.
Again, lot of assumptions and a bit of guess who as to what you're looking for, but most of them were quite practical.
Whenever I am searching for something, especially over a large area, I'll prioritise larger features that I can view on a map when more zoomed out, rather than getting to streetview for every option. It saves a lot of time for me! Hope that helps!
Hi Ben, I have a picture of a house with a Google Maps stamp on it. I need to trace the exact location (I only know the city and the area it's in). Reversed picture search didn't give any results, which is odd. Is there a way to find it?
Great video. Learnt a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Did you get your beer? GREAT WORK DETECTIVE!
smoking at a petrol station. Brilliant !
Ben, love your series! Haven't finished this video yet but...this first photo looks photoshopped..you may find this location but i am not sure they were there!
11:17 why did you blur the main guys face the whole video but not these 5 people?
Wow,u really found macaffee i expected to be hard ❤
Yeah it could be hard if you were brute forcing it. But a couple of visual clues save so much time!
amazing!
You did not explain how to get the camera view to change for the Yosemite sho in the video. I cannot seem to find any button or tool in google maps. Is this a Google Earth thing?
Yes
Nah it works on Google Maps too. Just hold CTRL and drag your mouse and it'll turn 3D :)
How are you able to tilt the angle of the map?
Ctrl + mousewheel in Google Earth
Is there any ways to find locations from only hills in shitty quality where Google maps doesn’t work ? For example a war footage in mountains ?
fantastic whaoo
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey dude. I've been enjoying this series so far and really wanna try it out. But i cant seem to find more images to try osint on. Do you know any source that can get me this ?
I don't wanna do this to any of my friends cause it's a privacy invasion 😅. It would help big time of i got some source. Thanks ^_^
Excelente. Muito obrigado.
Thanks! 🙏
Thank you, great material! Did you get the free beer at the end?
I wish!
@@BendobrownBad ending
Not the same technique but I had an ex girlfriend that would go on and on about this magical place she went to one time a few years back on four wheelers. and how she hates that she cant remember how to get there.
Well, one day she was ranting about it and she mentioned she even has a pic of her and her cousins sitting on this huge rock the last day of their trip.
I ask, "is it on your phone?"
She says, "Yea"
So I say, "Show me..."
She pulls it up, I take her phone, look the pic over for a bit. Then, I open the additional options on the phones photos app with the 3 little dots drop down menu (she had android) and scroll down to the GPS coordinates of the photo, copy, paste into maps, hand her back the phone and ask, "is that the place?"
The look on her face was like a God just rode in on a frickin pegasus unincorn...
Yes i got head that day....
Frick yeah
Hello sir. Will you help me if i'll give you video I want location
I want to know where that video have been created
Please help me out its a request sir
Can you show us where to get radiation data and map Fukushima's plume over time?
if you stay far enough from the picture, you see the man is one with a beard, and is smiling.
Well, simply because they look nefarious. In fact, he probably lifted the can of red bull.
I check the interior store cams.
So this is how Interpol caught John Mcaffee and put him in a cold dungeon!
Is there anywhere I can post a Geo Location challenge?
What if the photo is fake, though? Or photoshopped?
4:48 Basingstoke. Yep, that's definitely Basingstoke.
The people who do this for fun basically run on: Hey, wouldnt it be funny if we did this.
"Behind this... big... gentleman"
How did you find the station at Baden Baden? Brute force by going along the routes at low enough antotude to spot ahy Esso petrol station? Did you ask Mr Google for all Esso stations?
Seeing the image, I was concerned that it did not have the Esso logo on the side of the roof sicne it is normall on the left side of the roof over pumps. (aka: it could have been a former Esso station that only removed the logo, so wouldn't be listed as ESSO).
Also, when you did find it, I was going "quick, go street vew, go street view, and then "why isn't he going street view? " :-) Street View would be first thing I would do to verify site.
Gas companies aren't keen on keeping competing companies colors or logos on their property, they quite quickly and easily change the location to match their style. They're oligarchs, they don't second-hand use anything.
The station at Baden Baden is an ideal stopping point. If you just imagine any person trying to drive a long distance, they're going to have to stop at some point either for fuel or for comfort, or both. If you know the gas station they stopped at, it wouldn't even be hard to say "esso station near xyz city" and there are only a limited number of Esso stations between point a and point b. And you can logically deduce a relative distance from point a to the gas station based on the average mpg of cars today.
Ideally what you need is the common sense you claim to have but clearly lack in the final paragraph of your comment.
Easter egg building? Since when was the gherkin building called the Easter egg?
Why didn't you just ask Google maps to show Esso garages along my route?
great video mate. and what about the beer ??😂
No beer, and I don't think that will be coming anytime soon. Sad to see he's not with us anymore.
where do i find images to practice with?
Just look basically anywhere dude
We have a situation here.. Here in Pakistan , satellite view is not as yours ! i mean we only see the routes not the people..Even if we take a picture , there are just imaginary lines that shows streets.. Might be that view is restricted due to security reasons !
from Pakistan: not surprised you can't see detail ;)
I do the same thin to find locations around the world.
I don’t know how to die. I am gonna kms if I can’t find specific location I am looking for 25:22
Thanks!!!!
Welcome!
One thing that is important is that some phones will flip selfies, which you may need to take into consideration.
great
Within a a second I knew it was St Paul’s
One of my favourite places to sit and ponder 🤓
Did he buy you that beer he owed you???
Nope 😅
It's probably easier to locate him now. He hasn't moved much in the last 12 months.
I thought about this when America was tracking down Osama Bin Laden, only I was going to map the terrain in his photo & match it up with google earth spot elevations.
How can me find farmhouse
Ask your local real estate agent.
Hey, my girlfriend was selling stuff on offer up for a yard sale. And the person that wanted to buy this Argyle funko for $10. So they start talking about the payment and my gf said cashapp so they exchanged numbers or smth and the person was gonna pay $20 and the stranger said they sent $50 but she didn’t get anything (next thing we know) he sends a threat message with a graphic video and I wanted to see if anyone wanted to help me out because there is (houses in the background)
I'm sure there's plenty that would want to help!
the gentleman with a redbull can
So........ What kind of beer did he buy you?
So how was that beer?
A bowser in a tanker. The name you want is "petrol pump". Easy when you think a little.
Oh ok. Thanks
7:44 And who is that, 🤣!
Are you Vedder Casyn ?
Could you please elaborate the steps you followed after you found thr oil company and the possible roads they might have taken. In the video ite conclusion is slightly abrupt. I understand that you did this to keep the video short. But many people would be keen to know the steps
RIP John
very cool, but, did you get your beer? :P
there is software witch tells all forensic data of immage, things like witch camera it was taken on and default picture no. resolution and even GPS coordinates absolutely all phones and digital cameras has it. Please do not waste time comparing trees and builings in bacground. Have a nice day!
Yep, covered that in one of my first videos. It’s called metadata (or exif).
Almost every social media platform removes this data upon upload, so good luck sticking with that 😬
You also mentioned checking EXIF in the video, but didn’t go into detail, assuming everyone knows that obvious step, and also that it’s usually stripped these days (for years, actually). At the beginning of his campaign, Trump actually left the Twitter location tag feature on and everyone could track his location every tweet. Which was quite often at that time. It was one of the things that made you realize it was really him tweeting and that he had no tech people on staff. You could even catch him lying about his location sometimes.
Well - good luck in finding a location in an arbitrary Chinese Megacity without well known landmarks.
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Don´t put the Redbull in the bin! In Germany we have this thing called "Pfand" :)
Sarod is kool
John wants to know your location
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27:20 Noooo I hope he does not! Theres Pfand on that can !