OSINT At Home #4 – Identify a location from a photo or video (geolocation)

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.

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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.

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

Great video ! Learned more in 30 mins than one would in 30 days without quality resources, like this one.

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 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!

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.

Truly fascinating. Thank you.

I’ve used these services on Twitter before! Lol This is actually good info for anyone to simply be AWARE OF. Stay safe.

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.

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

Wow you're super good at this! Very impressive to follow along Ben :)

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?

This is informative, thank you mate.

Absolutely fantastic video. Loved it

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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.

I have attempted to locate places from photos. It's like a puzzle and enjoyable.

Your videos are fantastic! Thank you!!