Allways check meta data on pictures first. Sometimes they contain exact longitude/lattitude from camera and exact time stamps. Shadows will give precise direction if you know local time. Estimate shadow lengths in relation to object height. Humen are ideal because they tend to balance perfectly vertical with known height (5 to 6 ft). The picture was probably taken +/- 3h around noon as sun is high and shadows are short in relation to the object height. That's were date/season comes in handy, too. And sometimes an old fashioned globe and a flash light can help you visualizing. And check for moon on daylight, either. Depending on date, time it must be in view or musn't.

@OurSpaceshipEarth

Ай бұрын

Old News there, Vice "I'm With John Mcafee right now, and heres our GPS in image ExIF" News. ;]

I always thought about finding the latitude of a pic that had a Dish TV type satellite dish in it, pointing to the Clarke belt.

@wilhellmllw3608

2 ай бұрын

Yeah we do that when playing GeoGuessr!

Are you familiar with the Military History magazine 'After the Battle'? Published in the UK from early 1970s until late last year. They always did a great job of matching WW2 photo locations to the same spots postwar. Plus great use of detailed road atlases . And that was decades before GE. Its even better to track like you just have of various battlefields or just places in a current news story.

How would you begin with photos that didn't have the city/country already associated with the picture? Seems like that info posted with the images did the majority of the work.

2 ай бұрын

Given how high the sun was in the sky for the pictures in the video, you can already conclude that it must have been pretty close to the equator.

@arooobine

Ай бұрын

If you have a timestamp for the photo, and some visual way to actually measure shadow angles, you could get latitude and longitude.

@EvenTheDogAgrees

Ай бұрын

@@arooobine Yeah, if you have information you don't have which would allow you to solve the puzzle, you can solve the puzzle.

Well it was not so much shadow as supporting terrain on the photo, also you could use drawing straight line between two distant object in mountain range, adjusting angle you could get exact pin point.

Power lines have different structures at angle points in the line. Those points will have a more substantial or reinforced pole or structure. For tower structures it often a 4 leg structure where the linear structure will have two. For pole supports there will be an anchor pole at the angle point or several anchors that bisect the angle. I saw that angle point and then noticed that in the background of the photo the closest structure was a 4 legged structure but all the ones going away were two legged.

I'd appreciate a list of the most useful OSINT apps (as Google extensions or otherwise) - would you PLEASE list them? Many thanks!

I use similar techniques to figure out where Itchy Boots videos were filmed. It is easy to glean basic estimate of latitude IF you can discover high noon and season otherwise it can be a wide band of possibility.

@usernamemykel

Ай бұрын

Noraly!!!!!!

i thought everybody does this kind of things in their teenage years, its a basic stalker gathering info.

@magnumxlpi

2 ай бұрын

Nope just you my guy lol

@oixambre

2 ай бұрын

Mind your word your FBI agent is watching

@tehmtbz

2 ай бұрын

Nah during my teens you could only stalk people in person. Maybe a little bit over the phone, until it was left off the hook. What's that mean? Oh, ask ChatGPT.

@AbdulKarim-hz4pz

2 ай бұрын

@@tehmtbz that means you're old as f, That means you're a creeper, a persistent one at least. Please don't tell me you're the kind that drive around looking for a prey at night 😔.

@tehmtbz

2 ай бұрын

@@AbdulKarim-hz4pzit was really just an opportunity for a joke...I'm not even 40 years old.

@MrBen its amazing to have this skill. Looking for role in Osint and love to have the opportunity because without proper task and works learning is not possible

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Looking at the shadows, I would suppose the time is around noon, the sun almost all the way to the south (up in the sky), so the mountains to the north, lining west-east almost

Excellent...! I wonder how difficult it would be if you only had the shadows & NOTHING else...? 🤔👍

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

Good question!

@videostarish

2 ай бұрын

I suppose if you got a peek at someone's watch, or a clock on a wall, that would narrow it-down... 🤔

@atntaltd

2 ай бұрын

@@Bendobrown some missile navigation use this technique

The picture darker clothes (img1) has dark unique rock layout on it's middle left and checking the other pic, w/ lighter clothes (img2) is a large cluster of rocks in the same colour as the other dark unique rocks and in fact that clusters rightmost ~10-20% match to our dark unique rock layout we seen on the far left middle of img1.

Cool video, what do you think of drawing lines to try to triangulate a more exact position. Like trying to line up the power lines or something.

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea! I usually do that, but I didn’t want to mislead with an entirely narrow area, and am trying to make sure to ‘understate’ the findings - just in case folks get the wrong idea and start assuming you can do that process and conclude down to the metre.

this barely used shadows at all. this was just a reverse image search that told you the exact region the photo was in...

15.52864° N, 45.17166° E

Could have marked a couple of bearing points to the pylons and other features. Anyway got me subbed.

cool cool. did the image have meta data to corroborate ?

@OurSpaceshipEarth

Ай бұрын

Everyone scrubs ExIF data for safety reasons (and very very likely saves that 'scrubbed' data if not the entire original image, linked to their own local copy for possible future analysis by admins, etc.. Well everyone scrubs except Vice News and then only when posting from Reporters in top secret locations..

impressive !

@Bendobrown

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

So was just thinking you could have found a close grid point (within 10 to 100 meters) by using resection(two known points to find one unknown) like in the military using an Azmith. i just don't know how to incorporate that with Google Earth.

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

Like a back bearing? Yeah, I’ve done that when I was in the military. But for this, I didn’t want to mislead with a specific set of coordinates - keeping the limitations in there as I wasn’t able to narrow down the exact location accurately until I found that outcrop of rocks.

I found the album photo locations that are secret with this technique:))

How hard is it to get a remote junior OSINT job without college degree?

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

Actually quite straightforward: - find a topic you are passionate about - do verifications like geolocations, mapping and investigations - write up your results and publish them on medium and Twitter - contribute to a news issue by writing up your topics on subjects of interest - ask for a freelance gig as an open source investigator - go full time.

@mkm1015

2 ай бұрын

@@Bendobrown thank you for taking the time to answer

OMG!!!!!!!

nice, make a video about opsec at home

@Bendobrown

2 ай бұрын

That’s a really good one. Thank you 🙏

Minecraft hack works irl too

I would have worked backwards from a city that had a generator and worked back to a mountain

Bro the first tweet had the exact location

This is some CIA style shit. Impressive

dont let this vid get in the hands of the bad guys

Is this a doxxing series

so tell me what he is talking about or what he is doing

the homies aint safe no more

s/o yt algo

gangstalkmaxxing

Fantastic method of busting faked moon and mars photos too.

can you find my TV remote?

I thought this would be a video on finding the lat/long based on the time and shadows. Nope, he's just waffling on for 21 minutes after being literally told where it was.

Nice click bait title

Use of shadows was very least.

Title is misleading this hardly used shadows at all.

I feel like you made that harder than it had to be. The easier method, Step 1: Take the image into MS Paint. Step 2: Draw the text, "THIS GUY HAS OIL" with an arrow pointing to the guy. Step 3: Send to George Bush. Step 4: Watch the news.

Misuse of “synonymous”. Look it up.

“Flat Earthers” must have this 😂

Where do these Chinese radar jamming satellites get all this power from I wonder? It's just propaganda. To quote the T-800, "it doesn't wauherk dat vayh".

How are we going to explain this to flat earth people 😂😂😂

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