Geolocation Exercises

[flarkey]

Can you confirm @flarkey?!View attachment 85568

I don't think that's him.

 

[flarkey]

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Feliz Navidad everyone. Where am I right now....?

 

[GM4AJK]

Since I know by non-geolocation methods, I will refrain from answering

 

[Landru]

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Feliz Navidad everyone. Where am I right now....?

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Gran Canaria

 

[jarlrmai]

Since I know by non-geolocation methods, I will refrain from answering

Confirmed you are blue shorts guy

 

[flarkey]

Since I know by non-geolocation methods, I will refrain from answering

Just to avoid any scandalous rumours, we're not on holiday together.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Confirmed you are blue shorts guy

Which one?

Dude on his phone at the beach, or dude by himself? Oh wait, there's this guy too:

Flarkey a speedo kinda guy? I know they're common in Europe.

 

[JMartJr]

I think discussion of the Speedos (tm) of various members may be one we'll regret having... I urge caution...

 

[flarkey]

Which one?

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Dude on his phone at the beach, or dude by himself? Oh wait, there's this guy too:

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Flarkey a speedo kinda guy? I know they're common in Europe.

Speedos are literally the legal law in France, and that is the only time I've ever worn Speedos.

 

[Giddierone]

Not sure if this has been geolocated yet...

 

[Mick West]

Not sure if this has been geolocated yet...
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[flarkey]

Can anyone find this location in Osaka? There's some UFOs in there too that are probably starlink flares.



Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3vb6_EQ8eWs

I had thought the tower on the right of the video was this, but it doesnt seem to fit:

34.674111°, 135.167282°

 

[Trailblazer]

Can anyone find this location in Osaka? There's some UFOs in there too that are probably starlink flares.



Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3vb6_EQ8eWs

I had thought the tower on the right of the video was this, but it doesnt seem to fit:

34.674111°, 135.167282°
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The shape of the skyline looks like the mountains behind the Minoh area to the north of the city...

But I can't find a match. Of course the buildings in Google Earth could be out of date.

 

[flarkey]

Solved in 3min on https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/comments/1sn3xxr/can_you_find_these_buildings_in_japan_maybe_osaka/

Not Osaka, but 175miles to the east - Shizuoka ...

34.987262°, 138.415742° Ikedahigashishizuoka Park - Google Maps

 

[jarlrmai]

I had my doubts it was Osaka..

 

[Mendel]

Not Osaka, but 175miles to the east - Shizuoka ...

I remember seeing the Shizuoka tower in my search results, but I didn't follow up on it since I didn't question the given location.

 

[Giddierone]

Question about GPS in smartphones. I recently took an iphone photo while in a remote forest area with patchy cell service. I was standing still. The GPS location was off by almost 4km. The next photo I took, 2 mins later, was accurate. The photo with the wrong GPS location was the first one I'd taken that day, but the location it put me at was not somewhere i'd been, although it was near a road we'd driven down the day before. Just wondering if this is a common fault and if we've seen any other examples of this when trying to geolocate images.

 

[flarkey]

I think after you wake a phone up (ie to use the camera) it will initially take the position from the celltower location until GPS location becomes available., which can take up to a minute. Did you check the erroneous position to see if it was a cell tower location?

 

[jarlrmai]

Phones generally use A_GNSS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

Assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) is a GNSS augmentation system that often significantly improves the startup performance—i.e., time-to-first-fix (TTFF)—of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). A-GNSS works by providing the necessary data to the device via a radio network instead of the slow satellite link, essentially "warming up" the receiver for a fix. When applied to GPS, it is known as assisted GPS or augmented GPS (abbreviated generally as A-GPS and less commonly as aGPS). Other local names include A-GANSS for Galileo and A-Beidou for BeiDou.

A-GPS is extensively used with GPS-capable cellular phones, as its development was accelerated by the U.S. FCC's 911 requirement to make cell phone location data available to emergency call dispatchers.[1]​

 

[Giddierone]

Did you check the erroneous position to see if it was a cell tower location?

So far it seems a bit random. It gave a location near a local cell tower, but not the closest one to my actual position. But maybe it was the last one it remembered? Overpass turbo isn't working well for me at the moment.