Pinpointing the exact location of my fans using a single image.. GEO DETECTIVE #3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2024
- This week's episode features two brand new photos, featuring an absolute mind bender from Aron Amberleaf, and a glorious mountainous snap from Bananus Hippledick which you can see in the thumbnail.
You what? you haven't even subscribed yet? come on.. / @geowizard
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Drop me a like you lovely bunch of tegnuts x
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Have you seen the '[Follow-Up] - Finding the Location of a Camera from a Landscape Photo video' yet?
Yes
@@TestTest-lj8yn No
ok
This video includes 99% of the times in my life I've heard the word bollard.
100% for me
Ever have that moment you realize a word is pretty common but you just didn't know it existed until someone uses it 20 times in a conversation?....
💯 for me as well
Ngl,had to google that one.
is it just an english thing? it’s always been called that here, might be different where you’re from
"whether someone has been sad enough to catalog all the bollards" says the man who is googling bollards... says the man who is watching a man googling bollards
Very sad... says the man commenting on the man watching a man googling bollards.
hahaha
Underrated comment
We're all sad in some ways, and that's the joy in life!
@@morgiewthelord8648 infinite sadness
Just waiting for that one person to send an image of them in the middle of the ocean
Yeah and he’ll get it right too
And Tom gets it
"As you can see from the texture of the water and formation of the waves, we are in the south Pacific"
Joseph Ceballos “I’ve seen that fish before”
@@zealandl.1372 😂😂😂😂😂
Okay hold up, that data set of all the street trees in London is actually insane
Who has time and also wants to do that?!?! It’s insane!
Simon Hunt The City of London has been around for a very, very long time.
@@simonhunt5473 It could actually be a government resource. Many seemingly useless databases are shared with the public as APIs since that data is completely harmless and can be used for a lot of potential projects by people. I used to be a government worker (in Israel) and we had APIs for all sorts of things. Usually all it is a data base that sometimes omits sensitive information. As long as it is public, there is no good reason to not share it. This trees thing could easily be something the police use or the municipality to maintain certain aesthetic or bio-diversity standards. It's really cool stuff and once you make it, it's really easily to update :]
@@SiMeGamer its a gov.uk website so yeah, its a government resource. I had no idea it existed but I'm not even mad that some of my taxes are spent on it
@@_Wombat To be honest a lot of those trees the government/councils are responsible for anyway They'll need to the data themselves so why not make it public
Girl: He must be watching IG models on his phone
Me: Spends 10 minutes watching a grown man search for a specific type of parking bollard
also me: spends 30 minutes browsing online pdf catalogues for concrete parking bollards instead of looking for a job.
Hahaha this comment made me actually laugh out loud
@@Inezistheshit hjelper gjerne 😊
Yellow tipped concrete mini pyramid bollards > IG models 😬
Let's be honest. If you're watching a man looking for a specific type of parking bollard for then minutes then you're probably single
The amount of time I spend cruising around the UK in Street View looking for yellow tipped bell-shaped bollards has substantially increased since watching this video
Props to the guys that documented every tree in London!
Lots of people in London with nothing better to do :)
Its a gov uk website, so the state did this time!
@Tobias Reiner How is this an abuse of tax money? It seems pretty handy to have a database with the location of all trees and their type for tree maintenance
They have probably added most of the trees to the database as they have planted them.
trees in melbourne all have their own email addresses.
I'm sure someone else has already commented this, but remember to turn 3D Buildings on! Once you narrowed it down to Yosemite, finding Bananus Hippledick would have been just a minute or two with it on, because all the trees and stumps are 3D, instead of flat imagery.
“Get in” count: 0 this episode unfortunately.
Solid video though
I have seen you in the comment section in numerous videos. Lemme just tell you I appreciate the hustle
Do you watch Kripparrian videos by any chance? The commenters so this sort of thing there.
@@sami2503 AHAHAHHAHA yeah!!! I do. That’s where I got the idea from.
well done mate LOL
@@getinwizard2877 Gettinerino Wizarderino hha
Hi Tom, I've just found these GeoDetective videos and am having fun going through them and trying to solve them myself. So gutting at the beginning of this video at 3:16 you say 'these are all parking signs, I don't think any of these will hold a clue..' but I managed to get 'fulmer' out of the one on the right, I then googled 'fulmer apartments' and lo and behold there she is! Mallory Street NW8.
I had fun watching you say bollard about 700 times though!
Congratulations! I looked , and you're right!
for the pictures that Tom can't manage to figure out, maybe he could leave them and the owner of the photo send him a clue via email, eg. whether the city is right or not and he comes back to it at the end? Rather than just leaving it unsolved
This is a great idea, I know he hates to see them left unsolved even more than we do and clues keep it interesting!
Yeah ! And also ask people to try to solve it as well and see if someone in the comments finds the answere :)
I cannot blame Tom for not getting that first pic, there was nothing really unique/distinctive to go on. And even if it is London, should he then check every single streetcorner of that city? lol at least give him a bone
awesome
@@Netherlands91 Not every street corner but at least every park corner.
In the 80s this guy would have made a fortune as an CIA consultant.
don't think 90% of the resources he uses existed back then
Seit gefühlt 5 Jahren nichts von dir geguckt, und jetzt "den kenn ich doch" :D
@@madlad4206
Now you know why they were invented.
@@analool7873 ich hatte genau das gleiche Gefühl.
Tools > Options > Navigation > 'Do not automatically tilt while zooming'
Please upvote this to help put an end to Tom's anguish.
Ikr
You have put an end to my anguish.
You have put end to my anguish too, two years later
Hey Tom, here's a Google Earth tip for you that I've just figured out:
You can go to add -> photo and use that view to line up the photo with the terrain and pinpoint the location that way. Just drag the opacity slider so that you can see through the photo, adjust the field of view, then move around to find a spot where the google earth view matches up with the photo. I wasn't able to get them to match up 100% exactly, because I think the camera adds some barrel distortion, but I was able to get within 100m of that Yosemite location that way.
"Trying to find Bananus Hippledick" should be the name for a series of novels
Ah yes... I can see it now... “The Hunt for Bananus Hippledick” 🤌🏼
So help me, that had better get a musical theatre/stage adaptation.
what in the
yes
“Looking for Bananus”
I get strong university vibes from the first one. I may be wrong but looks like a large uni campus
It’s Marylebone in London
@@ultraL2 address?
@@Dynamikcheese Lilestone Street
@@Dynamikcheese mallory street
holy seeing your name felt like a huge throwback to like 2012 haha funny seeing you here
This is the series that really combines all of toms skills
Except the hedge hopping
@@claudiusflavius2493 lmao
Except the drumming
Well it DOES include starving slash living on Jelly Beans and pushing in without gloves...🤔
Wow that second one might be the only one in this series where I knew the location before Tom...Yosemite Sam is proud
Half-Dome is an iconic hiking spot in an absolutely beautiful national park. The US is lucky to have such great national parks. Also, you'd make a great London cab driver, one I'd want to show me around
Nobody:
Tom: Lets just check every of 800k trees in London
I love your profile picture mate
Nicolas, not "nobody", since *someone has listed all of the trees there*.
@@oscarn- there’s a meme that begins with “nobody:” that’s why he did that
@@aidanfl I know, I'm just so stoked that there is such a database. 😁
"I've actually walked that distance, that's the funny thing"
Straight line challenge London to Brighton? Might be cool
There'd be a LOT of small gardens to go through!
Just tried before watching tree part, googled "broken in half tree in a mountains" and found it immediately, sometimes unlikely is likely
Interesting hobby you have, good luck
you're right it's the third image that's hilarious, to think that missing half dome would've helped him get it quicker
I think because of this comment, the image is now the first thing that comes up
“there must be a bollard enthusiast out there.” there is. and he goes by the name of GeoPeter.
True that, Peter would have known which corner of London uses yellow-tipped dome-shaped bollards
without wanting to treat Peter's skills wrong (he is incredible!), I would say that basically every really, really good GeoGuessr player (besides Tom) knows bollards
Can't deny, I indeed love bollards. ❤️
Theo Bär I’m sure a lot do, I’ve just been on a GeoPeter kick lately :)
@@theobar8589 Do they what. They know a huge amount of bollards.
"University of Oraygon" That had me dying Tom!
Every time another episode of the series comes out, I stop anything that I'm doing just to watch it.
Im addicted to his channel too haha. I feel like a child everytime i get the new vidéo notification
Literally what just happened to me. I saw "GeoWizard 13 minutes ago" and saw this title so im here instantly
@mmmGRIZZY PLEASE 😭
@Brian C bread
@mmmGRIZZY That might be an exception, lmao
I found the first one.
Its the corner of Mallory and Lilestone St
If you watch the right guy, in his hand there is probably a gyros, and i started checkin london gyros places. And i found a very similar logo. Its called, "Rios piri piri".
If you watch the guy he probably still has gyros, because he would droped already to the trash. So i started checking the nearby places with the map of the trees in london, and there was a corner that looked perfect. And thats how i found it.
What are you talking about "gyros" A gyroscope? an unemployment check? The guy on the right is holding a bag of Amber leaf tobacco.
@@mikeyforrester6887 idk what u call it in the UK in Hungary this food is called gyros.
Tortilla with meat, and vegetables. The food is originally made in Greece.
If I could give you a youtube reddit gold right now I would. Absolutely stellar work. How you even noticed he was eating gyro and the logo of the place around the corner is amazing! I kept trying to find the bollards and it was no luck.
@@Skids2r He is roling tabacco.
I was hoping someone found it! Fantastic job!
You should have "3D Buildings" checked! In the Half Dome segment, the terrain would have been much more detailed if you had it checked.
And a lot of Yosemite is available on Google Street view as well!
Did he get it right?
Yeah, was gonna say, it's much easier on Google Maps with all the 3D stuff and better markings. Google Earth looks dated, but I guess he just has all the stuff turned off!
I'm surprised it took him as long as it did on that one. I saw the photo and immediately knew it was Yosemite
“Yeah yeah yeah and a bag of sprouts”
Oh good, I'm enjoying this series more than I thought. It combines my enthusiasm of GeoGuessr with my love of stalking.
hol' up
@FBI
We should be friends Brad
Wait a minute.....
@@mimzi7974 we are already friends
After watching you work, you would make a great image analyst for some company or government. You also prove that a skilled person can get more information than you would expect from a seemingly benign photo. Keep up the great work, love your videos.
The shirt that Bananus Hippledick is wearing is a Nation Youth Orchestra shirt btw (99% sure). Two of my close friends actually made the roster, and it's such a prestigious achievement knowing how competitive the musical arts are here. Just a cool little info bit for you :)
I saw that and thought 'Holy shit he must be good'
100% correct! I was a member :)
I auditioned for it a year ago and didn’t get in🥲
My first thought was Native Youth Olympics!
Big thing in Alaska
You are insanely good at this. The amount of knowledge required for what you do is impressive.
Let's appreciate that this dude could be the ultimate stalker/finder but chose to use his powers in other ways :)
How you think he got so good at it lol
Oh my....
@@barbonson_richards hahaha yeah
In the past, I've been known to find the address of my friends/family on Google Maps after they've recently moved, but without them having shared their address with me yet. Sometimes I find the exact address, and sometimes just the building complex, but all with only public information online. Once I wandered around a couple of very rural towns on Google maps and streetview knowing only the amount of time it took my friend to drive to his new place from his old one, and that it was between two cities about 50 miles apart, and some video from his yard. I thought it was great fun. (He was only slightly worried. :-) Some folks think it's too stalkery, but I just love the puzzle aspect of it all. So you can imagine how much I loved discovering Geoguessr!
@@thewiseturtle yeah I understand but you you must know it's a bit creepy and alarming lol good thing geo guesser exist :)
Very fun channel. I often do this very thing based a photo, or a shot from TV news, or similar. Last year a prominent NY news person did a live remote from their high-rise apartment with views out the window behind them of Manhattan. It only took a few minutes to nail down the exact building and floor. Fun!
If London has a map of designated places to lock up bikes you could cross reference it with that tree map (assuming it's London)
it is london. A guy found it under baj's comment if you want to see where it is.
I was thinking the same - cross-referencing with a database of give way signs. But I did not find such a database.
It still amazes me that someone from a different country can know more aboit the United States than a born and raised American. Of course, I know more than average Americans, but nowhere near this dude. Tremendous work, man!
As an American, I have never heard the term bollards before. Hearing Tom say that multiple times this episode made my day. Cheers haha
Ikr? I have never heard that term in my life. Also as I live in NoCal, I immediately noticed that was half dome.
@@GlaciaDay i've only heard it used in GeoGuessr videos lol
I mostly have heard it because I used to work in bicycle safety, including serving on the bicycle committee in a north eastern US city. So it's just as common in the US, but not if you're not into road design. :-)
What are the called in the USA?
@@nealb6974 Um, bollards are called bollards in the USA.
this series needs to return
I was dying on the 2nd one when he thought the tree was famous with HALF DOME right behind 😆😆
For real! I immediately was like “oh he’s in Yosemite because that’s half dome!” 😂
Yeah, he had to be effing with us.
and you are not laughing at the pronouciation fo Yosemite?
I just can not understand, for someone like him.. and he said he even was there, in Yosemite, how can he possibly not look on the photo and think that this has to be Yosemite right away, it took him so long to realise that it is for 100% it, its insane.
@@ondrejryba5594 Because he didn't see half dome and he hasn't been to every mountain range in western North America so he played it safe
This is great! I actually went along with you trying to pinpoint the exact location in London and I randomly came across those bollards and found it. You did everything right, it's a very small road, could have taken forever to find.
I also found it yesterday. No comments on my "verifying clueless information" though.
It doesn't seem like anyone is reading what I'm writing. I find the locations without cheating.
I think I need to disclose another one (not any video of that yet) that I spent many hours to find.
Maybe maybe, someone will recognize what I'm writing then.
@@rbtgmnstcs Right now you are just claiming to have done something without any proof. It's not exactly impressive.
@@mikeyforrester6887 If you find my comment that I first wrote, one level up (main section), you will see that I have proof. However, the TH-cam comments section is a mess. I can't find it myself using my phone.
Ok, but I can give you a hint. On google street view you will see a blue and green car parked (behind the tree in the picture) with the text SSE.
This series of videos is one of the primary reasons why I randomly think about your channel and make an effort to check TH-cam. It legitimately flashes in my head at least once a week and I head to TH-cam to see if you've done another video! Please continue to make these "Pinpointing the exact location of my fans" videos, they are so so fun to watch!
Seeing Oldschool RuneScape and Age of Empires on Tom’s desktop made me really happily surprised.
0:01 My man plays AoE2 and old school runescape, what a legend
And Worms Armageddon! Completely forgot about that game.
And roller coaster tycoon 2!
he even streamed AoE and worms a few times on twitch^^
And Max Payne.. Some og games ahahah
"I found this website on London trees" - You are a true detective, Tom! Love it!
One of my favorite series!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it or not but your line drawing from landmarks to the center of the image doesn't take into account the focal length of the lens. You might need to bring lines from landmarks on the right down to the left of the center point, and landmarks on the left down to the right. Also, use two (or more) landmarks for a two (or more) bearing fix. X marks the spot.
Love that 16 bit adventure background music, brings back memories!
How do you not recognize Half Dome immediately after recently visiting Yosemite?
this hahah i got it 2 seconds after seeing the thumbnail
The Yosemite image was so classic. I had a picture with that dead tree too haha.
Having grown up a few hours from Yosemite, I instantly recognized half dome. This is very likely the only picture I would have any chance of getting remotely close on in this series.
looked at the thumbnail on my phone and instantly thought "oh hey it's the panorama trail!" seeing an image of yosemite valley feels like finding a friend's face in a crowd lol
Yeah. I haven't been to Yosemite yet but I'm a climber and am pretty familiar with the landscape lol. I didn't get the panorama trail part though XD.
Geo wizard has one of the best like to dislike ration on TH-cam that I’ve seen and for good reason. Another banger man well done
I can't believe how much I LOVE this channel. Can't wait for the 1 million celebration!
The parts where you google random things you don't know the name of, and learn all sorts of interesting stuff you didn't even know you didn't know, are my favorite. It's amazing what humans dedicate time and efforts to, all those extensive databases of obscure things, that you'd never guess some random guy on youtube would use to play a game of geoguesser. Life is strange.
"I'm still counting this as a win"
me everyday I get out of bed
I saw the thumbnail and knew exactly where he was in Yosemite. Half Dome is tough to identify from this angle for most people. It's crazy how good your senses and memory are.
please dont tell me i was the only one laughing my ass off at him mentioning the bollard enthusiasts
Really good concept! I think an improvement would be to wait for the responses and include them in the same video so we as viewers don't have to wait for the next episode, but that's just an idea/suggestion. Love the videos and watch them all anyways!
What if you try to pinpoint the exact location where scenes for shows / movies were recorded lol
that would be so cool lol
fantastic idea fantastic
Yes! Like his comment so Tom can see it
replying to boost so he sees it!!! great idea!!
Yessssss
BBC please give this man a show. This is too good.
I love the in-depth detective work and exploration in this series. Geoguessr is usually such a rush, so it's great to see you take your time (even if sometimes it takes up too much of it lol). Keep it up!
This series has become one of the highlights of my week. Please keep making these - they are very entertaining
my man is still playing Age of Empire and Max Payne, Respect!
0:01
Man of culture indeed..
And rollercoaster tycoon 2
Not to mention Old School Runescape
LOVE THIS SERIES SO enjoyable to watch. Great Innovation to the Channel!
Age of Empires, Worms Armageddon, Rollercoaster Tycoon. Now thats the stuff!
Love love love this series!!!
Same!
Recognized Half Dome instantly! I've hiked Yosemite a few times and once you see it you never forget it. What a beautiful place.
My g playing that Oldschool Runescape yeah boi
It's so funny to see that tree in Yosemite because I've probably hiked the Panorama trail 6-7 times, and I'd say every other year at least my family has taken a picture right there at that tree. So it was a pretty good feeling seeing that photo and instantly knowing where it was.
I thought I knew a lot about world geography, maps and cultures... then I found GeoWizards channel and realized I'm not even worthy of being called a novice lmao
who is GeoGuesser
@@nate_storm my bad geo wizard... I'll correct it lol
Well depends, what do you know about geography? Can you name every country's capital city and do you know every country's flag?
this is one of my favorite series on this channel so far
Ah yes, the famous Tom "Straight-line" Davies!
This is my favourite new series on youtube. Amazing content GeoWizard!
You're a brave man typing "po-" into your address bar and recording it 😂
Also, yellow tipped...
for the modern man, flipping into incognito mode is as automatic as breathing
@@nathan87 ikr?
Brave men have a folder in bookmarks specifically for that :D
Bro you have Cubase installed do you produce music?
Would love to see the contents of the 'TAX RETURN 20-21' folder
Screen shot the full image or specific details of it then use the file to feed google image. At least for Yosemite half dome it took 1 minute then another 3 minutes adding tree sign. Your channel is a MUST have for any procrastinator ;) Good job!
6:39 you walked 50+ miles in one day? Holy smokes
I think he's told the story on his Patreon, him and his mate just set out to walk to another city and just about completed it.
At a brisk walk of 6 km/h, 50 miles (80km) would take 13h20
That's a heck of a walk.
just the immense wealth of data still amazes me. I work for the city of Amsterdam. Every tree, every curb, every bollard, every type of pavement everything is documented. And that's above ground, think of the underground stuff, all the glassfibre, cables, sewers, gas lines
Hey Tom, you can zoom in on pictures in the photos app by using ctrl+scrollwheel
Saw Half Dome in the thumbnail and knew it would be a good round. Great job on that round. Some info, Half Dome can be seen from Yosemite Valley but it's an 8 mile hike past Vernal Falls to reach the base. A good rule of thumb for North American landscape may be that if there are massive granite domes, then you are most likely in the Sierra Nevada or Canada.
I really think you are a superhero of some sort
This I by far my favorite series on you channel keep up the great work. Love your vids
Yesss, best series going.
Doing this from just one picture is rather impressive. Getting a profile with 2 or more pictures makes it incredibly easy
yoooooo im so thankful to find your channel and get back into geoguessr but like now i cant not look at someone's photos and think... i could probably find out exactly where they are right now
I was sick with covid and my mom brought over 30 year old family videos from a road trip. I was able to find the location of an old mining town using nothing but a few seconds of video and an abundance of time. This sort of thing is actually really fun
me: i should study
also me: if geowizard uploaded in the last 15 minutes i will take a break
GUESS WHAT
Great instinct on Yosemite Tom! I recognized Half Dome immediately - I climbed it with my family about 5 years ago, incredible hike and challenge!
I've absolutely no idea why, but I've been waiting for what seems like ages for this next episode to drop. Terrific. Who would have thought something so inane could be so very absorbing?
Aligning the mountains feels like the Terry Pratchett book Thud! :)
When he pulled out the second photo I thought "That's gonna be hard! Wait, is that... Half-Dome, Yosemite?
I noticed half dome immediately. Haha
I instantly thought of it and I have never been to America
Was looking for the Half Dome comment!
@@peatral Me neither! I guess I watch too much nature documentaries...
@@ricois3 I know it because I am a rock climber. its probably the most famous climbing spot in north america. Im hoping to climb at least part of el cap this summer
Oregonian here, haven't heard the "O'Reagan" pronunciation before! We have bumper stickers that say "Orygun" ... that's probably the best way to say it honestly.
Why not ask to the London taxi driver TH-camr to give you a hand ? Maybe he can help!
part of investigating is knowing your experts. i get its a solo challenge but would be interesting to see him finding some weird clue about an area and going OH i know an italian dude who specializes in gardens there let me see what he thinks.
I’m a London cabbie and I would say this ain’t London. Nothing looks familiar and never seen them bollards
@@CaboloNero My first thought was Cambridge.
Loughborough I think
There's a TH-camr called Tom the Taxi Driver and he uploaded a geoguessr video!
Hey Tom, this is how you use lines to find the location: your diagonal lines are not the right way. Make sure your pictures is leveled, then draw vertical lines on the image. Anything that a single line crosses will align from a top view on google earth. Diagonal lines will lead you to mistakes because of variations of elevation.
Think of vertical lines as you looking from the photographer's view up or down the landscape. The crossed points vertically will always be aligned on a top view ;-)
If you want to be 100% accurate and even avoid potential lens distortion, trace your vertical lines close or on the middle section of the picture as even on a wide angle or fish-eye lens, the center vertical are straight.
Someone teach Tom about side by side images.. the clicking back and forth is killing me!
how bad he is at using his computer is PART OF HIS CHARM! hehehehe
26:57 here you could also drop the orange figure on the floor (basically enter street view mode). but because there‘s no street view at this location you‘d enter ground view (i believe that‘s what it‘s called). you‘re then basically still seeing the 3d terrain, but stuck to the ground. this would make it much easier to check if the perspective of this particular spot matches with the one on the picture.
this could maybe come in handy in future episodes :)
I never expected a bloke looking at types of tree in London to be so intense
This is my favourite series you’ve done. Battle royale is pretty good too.
Gotta love these vids
Very entertaining to watch! I've been doing something similar while looking at houses online. I mean I can understand not wanting to list the exact address while still living in it but trying see if the area is good or if the seller is trying to hide something is always fun. Personal best was finding a house through the city it was in, a switchbox on the side of the road and solar panels on a neighbouring building.
I'll be watching some more of you, gotta learn from a pro! Keep it up!
I lost it when you found the Tree website
The internet is amazing