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

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

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

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

he probably received a lot :/

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.

Remi Barron

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

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

Sebastian

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

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!

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

Sunil Patel

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.

tom davies

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

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?

I was thinking the same

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

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

Sam Wiström

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

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.

+1

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

You Sir, are a fucking genius !

Mark Furniss

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

coffeebean

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

Joseph B

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

Nicholas Van Buer

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.

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.

It was fun to watch this while searching for the place myself. On the second and last one I was slightly faster but on the first one you won :) Regarding number 3: You were right with the upper house - on this photo you can see the railing of the balkony: https://www.engelvoelkers.com/images/5b076131-9d86-4354-a5e5-c9a74c9c82e8/liebe-für-borromäische-inseln-

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

Cool

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?

Johannes Wiberg

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

Tyler Wrage

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...

Viniter

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?

Sam Wiström

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

Vivalldi

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

Angus Grant

That was great! Looking forward to the next ones!

Paul Roddam

This is brilliant. Lovin' it.

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 . . .)

Nicholas Van Buer

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

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

Elliot Smith

Yes! been looking forward to this!

Ethan Brier

Ahhhhhh I can’t wait!

Hannah Samuels-Lyons

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

Weston Titus

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

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