#The Impossible Geolocation

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rare sorrel
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I don’t expect anyone to find this, but i challenge you to try and narrow it down as far as you can
Continent:
Country:
Region:
Area:
Coordinates (if you’re a god):

https://x.com/gflocating/status/1786482443735761156?s=46&t=2vTpV41Jkxx6HmGZvIjwSQ

OSINT challenge: (no reverse image searching, although it wouldn't easily work in this case) Find/reason out the area where this image was taken, and give me the most "zoomed in" answer you manage to come up with (continent, country, region within the country, local area)

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It has to do with some tests i’m running to check the usefulness of a new geolocation method i’ve been working on, i want to see just how much closer i got than others would get using normal approaches

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Feel free to ping me with questions for more information about the image as well if you get stuck at a certain level of “zoomed in”. I may or may not give the info

crimson root
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||Portugal?||

rare sorrel
rare sorrel
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@steady hemlock in case you’re bored ^^

steady hemlock
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Too hard for me.

rare sorrel
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The hint i sent in the reply might help if you can figure out how to use it (the idea is that its pretty much unsolvable to any extent without that hint)

steady hemlock
rare sorrel
steady hemlock
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|| Random scrolling on suncalc and guessing ||

rare sorrel
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||did you measure the shadow length and scroll till you found a match for the shadow length?||

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||(in that case its probably just a measuring error that gave you the wrong solution)||

steady hemlock
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nope, just guesstimated time of sunset etc.

rare sorrel
steady hemlock
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I'm more into brute force than being smart 😂

rare sorrel
steady hemlock
rare sorrel
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||Norway should be measurement errors but not that far off, so yes||

plucky loom
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@rare sorrel Northern hemisphere?

rare sorrel
rare sorrel
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for the interested to see how i got it narrowed down a little better

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different shadings means error ranges, but in reality because we're cool i actually had 0 error in the measurement (up to the 2 decimals at elast). So you only need to look at the brightest yellow for the potential options (technically only the center of the brightest yellow parts but i can't make the map show those ranges yet)

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well only really @steady hemlock probably lol

plucky hinge
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I went a different route. There are several coniferous evergreen trees visible in the background. This does not look like a garden or park so my assumption is these are natural.

On this map that would be dark or light green areas

Also the little shrubs on the left look very wind-swept that would point me to either coastal or highlands area.

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If you combine it with the map you posted I would be inclined to say || coastal washington/oregon (though my gut feeling is this does look very us like) uk/ireland or baltics ||.

rare sorrel
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But i like your approach

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This video i made with rainbolt and a Bellingcat researcher shows the idea i had that i sent this challenge for (as comparison to see how doable it was without this added info)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQIjDPFgdJA

tool here: https://colab.research.google.com/github/GalenReich/ShadowFinder/blob/main/ShadowFinderColab.ipynb
ty again to gabor and galen for being apart of this video, and their contribution to the tool
galen: @galen_reich / twitter
gabor: @gabor_friesen / twitter

▶ Play video
shell lava
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||Ireland?||

rare sorrel
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It’s actually ||dartmoor national park||

shell lava
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Ahh

violet jay
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found this "geospy ai" tool, it does go ireland here

rare sorrel
violet jay
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yeah

swift elk
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I’m fairly certain I’ve been here. Trying to use the spoiler but it’s not working.