@@profile., Yes, a line from the center of the image, vertically down would be the most useful one. (that, is, if the horizon is perfectly aligned horizontally)
@@niekboon4702 Haha yeah I use paint all the time, it's perfect for two second jobs or just drawing a quick line without having to bother with layers and all that rubbish
22:40 A photogrammetrist. And the technique is to use vertical lines across the photograph, and plot them on the map. They will converge at a single point.
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PLEASE GET HIM TO READ THIS, THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL You have to draw the line vertically down compared to the horizon on the image, because you observe the map vertically. The edges or the orientation of the image do not matter in this case. If you want to pinpoint the position of your perspective on a plane (aka. the map), your two reference points on the horizontal plane should form a vertical plane of possiple positions in 3D space, or a line of possible positions on the map, but you can only create this plane if you know what is upwards. (You get this information from the horizon, if the image is tilted.) If you see two objects separated only vertically in real life, you will be able to draw a line throug them on a map, that will include your position, but only if you look down on on the map vertically. This works even if your digital map includes 3d features, but again, only if both the line within your perspective, and your perspective of the map is vertical. Also: it doesn’t matter where on the image are the two reference points, as long as they’re vertically separated. Also also: since you drew your line to the left, the actual position of the guy would have been not on the hilltop, but on the route on the side.
EDIT: I've just made a video on my channel explaining this :) EDIT_2: I have a new and improved video taking other people's suggestions into account th-cam.com/video/DcX9VIi1rNc/w-d-xo.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is correct. Draw a line where the horizon of the image would be if it was taken in the middle of an infinitely large field. Draw a line perpendicular to this imaginary horizon, passing through the centre of the image. This line will pass over all of the objects between the lens and the object in the centre of your image and you can then align these objects on the map. Unfortunately this will not work for cropped images because you generally will not know where the true centre of the image is.
@@BadgerStyler I think what you're referring to is called 'barrel distortion' and afaik it doesn't affect straight lines going through the center of the image. Even if it did, the effect would probably be negligible for most camera lenses.
@@7362xvdvdjjell Ironically, what you subconsciously do when you imagine yourself in that space, is you create a vertical plane in your field of view, that includes two features seen on the map.
If this guy was a spy, an ninja or a stalker we would be living in fear at all time. He is not just powerful enough to cross a country in a straight line, he can also find any person with just one photo.
Would love to see people submit coordinate data for their actual location along with the photo so you can confirm it straight away. I know that's hard with holiday photos, but for people submitting photos taken specifically for it, that'd be fun (and basically you can get distance accuracy results at the end too) :D
I know that if I were doing this, I'd be waaay too tempted to cheat if the gps data was close to hand. Yes, it would be nice to see data commented on in the same video, but I don't think it's worth it if it gives the option of Tom accidentaly looking at the answer, or giving in to temptation when the search becomes tough. There's something nice about knowing there's no way he could cheat this as well, having the reveal at a seperate time to the guessing adds credibility to this video from a viewers point of view.
I was afraid for a moment that he wasn't going to google the bridge and just move on to the next one. I was like, "It doesn't have a photo, it must be that one!"
Shouldn't it work to draw 2 lines from 2 different reference points to the middlge of the picture and then draw the same lines on google earth and where they intersect the photo is taken?
@@TechlogicProductions I don't think that would work, because if you aim/rotate the camera a bit more up or down your method would result in different locations. I think it may be possible to create a line with the correct location on it with your method. Another method I think could work (but I'm not sure) is just using his method but taking a reference point in the middle of the picture and going straight down, because the middle of the picture is always right in front of you. I think that's why his second attempt was more accurate than his first one. We don't know for sure how accurate his first one was but it seemed a bit off while the second one, with a reference point closer to the middle of the picture, was almost spot on.
@@TechlogicProductions I think it might work but it would need more math i thing, if i am understanding you, if you wanted to draw a line in the photo, from a spot on the photo, to the shutter of the camera, then you would need to draw a dot, since light goes straigt, from the object to the camera, that same dot, in a map would look like a straigt line, if you took 2 reference points, and draw 2 lines and where they intersect yeah it would be the position, but, you need more information to deremine the angles at which you draw the lines on the map because moving a few meters to right or left of the position, the reference objects would still be visible but the angles of the lines in the map would´ve changed
@@pomonoli about the other method , I think you are right, but it could also be applied to any point, in the image, if you select a reference point and draw a line to the bottom of the image, everythin that is touched by that line, would match in the line in the map, the reason why it worked in the second case better than in the first place, is because of the coincidence that the reference he chose was in the middle, to pinpoint the exact location he would need 2 reference points in the image, draw 2 lines to the bottom, and draw those lines in the map by using the reference point, and how the lines intersect other objects on the image
you havent seen the shia labeuf stuff have you...... reddit was able to find the location of a flag pinned on a blank white wall in a house.... within 2 hours.......... not a joke not an exaggeration.. only thing they had was the sun light and they calculated that from the video to narrow down a location then went through a neighborhood with a flashlight and found it by shining a light into the window and saw it on the live stream...... they did this multiple times...... to include finding a flag in an open field in nowhere by noticing planes flying by and seeing the flight log and more and more.... the internet is scary.... if they want to find you..... they will......
@@Fleato I though it was 4chan. But either way, it was mental. They also think they tracked it down to a completely enclosed log cabin, based on the type of wood. There was no natural light so that was all they could go on. That one took them quite a bit longer than the others which they had always managed to track down in well under 6 hours.
Just in case you don’t know yet, you can use quotation marks and the minus symbol to do an advanced search. For example you case use “truss” “green” so all your searches would include the two inside the quotation marks. You can eliminate Jacques Bridge by adding -jacques and the results wouldn’t include results for anything that includes the word jacques. So you search would look like: “truss” “bridge” “green” -jacques Have a nice day!
Another trick is to cross it with a different search engine... With Google you risk getting "poisoned" search results, meaning it may drown out what you are looking for with what is most popularly searched for in some obscure fashion. Other search engines that do not try to individualize the search results, may give you more consistent results rather than "poisoned" ones by history.
Hey you have selected my photo on top the Sugarloaf at 16:46 and 21:45 . Awesome! It looks like the man in the photo was standing at the 2nd observation that is just after the rock steps and a little over half way up.
@@resonate9815 yooo this is sooooo mad bro... first of all he actually managed to find that bridge and now you commenting here and also im from moncton .. this world is a small place hahah
You know theres metadata included in the picture revealing your exact GPS coordinates? right click on any image you've taken on your phone and click properties > details. Hope you learned something :)
When googling, add a "-" before words to exclude results pertaining to them from the search. So for example, if you didn't want to see that one bridge, you could have put -Jacques somewhere in the search.
Took me 'til "Lee Ki Faucet" to realize that you had not, in fact, made some gross fan privacy oversight by blurring their faces but leaving in their names
@@607 It’s because of a lot of reasons. Say someone knew the person, but the person had cut them out of their lives, the person would know where they were. That’s just one example, which there are many.
@@607 I’m guessing it’s less about a person finding someone as others mention but more about being 100% someone consents to their persona rights being on a video. Especially with GDPR someone could later come and say they want it removed and without releases before hand he’d have to pull it. Also on the submission form he may list that he’s going to do make it as anon as possible, so it’s just a little extra effort...
I think he didn't give himself credit considering he searched for "police station path". However I believe he was just a couple of steps off from getting there all by himself because he'd already guessed Hong Kong. From there, based on his usual approach, it would have required surveying some stations at random in the right areas until he saw "police station path" nearby. It was impressive even without the search.
If there is a user-submitted panorama, google maps tends to make your pinpoint lead to there (even if it was slightly off), since a user-submitted image usually means that there's something significant there. Still a big coincidence!
@@ohnoheb Using the ability to focus in on little details as a weapon. Even more so when people pool their resources. As well as flight data, they also researched the sounds of animals that could be heard in the background, and people who thought they lived nearby drove round the local roads honking.
Yeah I thought that it was more of a description and not an actual name. Still would've looked it up like he did but I was not expecting it to give any actual results.
here is how you do the line on the photo technique: - draw a vertical line through the centre of the photograph - take a note of the landmarks it crosses - draw a line through the same landmarks on google earth - the person is standing on that line *this works with every vertical line regardless of horizontal position. The only time it doesn't work is if the camera is tilted. thanks Ilmari Karonen for clearing it up.
@@lonedfx but it sa good start, and also as a good example in the last picture by Anna, draw a 2nd line from a different point, so where the lines cross, should be where the photo was taken.
That actually works with any vertical line, not just through the center. But it needs to be vertical *in reality*, not in the photo, so if the photo is tilted, it gets harder. The easiest way in such cases is to pick some actual vertical feature (pole, tree, building corner, etc.) as close to some useful landmarks as possible and draw the line parallel to it. Geometrically, the vertical pole/tree/corner/whatever and the focal point of the camera define a unique vertical plane in 3D that they both fall in. Since the plane passes through the focal point, all objects physically within that plane will be projected onto the same line in the 2D image plane. (The line will be straight in the picture if the camera uses a rectilinear projection, as most cameras at least approximately do. For something like a fisheye lens, the line will of course generally be curved.) And since the plane is vertical, its projection onto the ground will be a straight line on a map. If the camera is pointed at the horizon and not tilted, then these vertical planes will be projected onto vertical lines in the image. But if not, they will be tilted, possibly by different amounts on different sides of the picture, which is why you really want to use a local vertical reference. Or I suppose you could first correct the camera tilt, e.g. using panorama stitching software like hugin, and *then* look for vertically aligned landmarks. (A vertical line near the center is a good choice if you can tell from the picture that the horizon is straight but the camera could be pointed above or below it. In that case the perspective tilt will be symmetrical, so that vertical lines on the left side of the photo will tilt one way and those on the right side will tilt the opposite way, and vertical lines near the center will be approximately vertical in the photo too. At least, as you note, unless the photo has been asymmetrically cropped.)
I love the fact that the picture from the girl in the italian lake(city of stresa, lago maggiore) is where I spent all my childhood summers, the swimming pool he sees is the one I used to swim in, and the big grey boat is the one I used to jump off to get into the lake. Quite emotional, thank you for the video!
the fact that she had a picture in front of the islands you and Greg discovered while travelling Europe is just awesome! That series for me is some of the greatest content on youtube!
@Adrian Bergersen to be fair these are very information dense pictures, a photo of you standing against a wall or in a forest with no landmarks at all wouldn't be very revealing.
LIKE IT SO HE SEES THIS IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL. If you're trying to pinpoint the location of the photo you should draw the line perpendicular to the line of the horizon. If you're sure the photo is taken exactly vertically or horizontally that means going straight down. The horizon is a circle. You're always slightly above it's center. Drawing a line perpendicular to the horizon means drawing a radius of that circle, that will always lead you to the center of it- the camera.
You're absolutely right but I think the explanation is a bit suspect (or just hard to follow). I think I'll make a video about this in a bit, because it's an interesting bit of geometry.
THis was wonderful, It reminded me of the early geowizard days where i was amazed you were studying the types of grass and the angles of the sun and just going full detective. Awesome cant wait for more I loved this.
dude, have you thought about aiding national and international agencies/orgs in identifying locations of photos/videos of trafficking victims? your skills would be incredible for that
@@erxtcdyfvugbhinjomk1953 same like there’s probably other people with this guys brain and they can all work together on helping out the investigations
That second one was insane, I had to pause the whole video just to freak out at how amazing that was. He placed the little dude down exactly there, I can't believe it. Get in.
“What did you watch for fun during the pandemic grandpa?” “There was this guy, more a wizard some say... he could track a person a simple photo” “We’re they criminals?!” “No no, just random people” “Oh so you and your nerdy friends” “NO THOUSANDS OF US...”
If you put a minus sign before a term in google it will show results where that term doesn't appear. helpful for when you didnt want that one bridge to show up. you can also combine it with quotes so it'd be like -"bridge name"
@@Mozzie7920 imagine you want to Google Tom's straight line missions but want to exclude all the results about the ones through wales you could google "straight line mission -wales" to get results that exclude wales
Drawing the line in paint won't give you exact results, even if you know exactly where the picture was taken from: The straight line in paint isn't a straight line on the ground (it's as the crow flies), the one in google earth is. Basically, you're projecting a straight line through the air onto the ground, which won't work if the ground isn't flat, as in the first picture where you're standing on a hill. Great content either way though!
If the camera is pointing perfectly at the horizon, then any vertical line in the picture will be a straight line on the map. If not, then the vertical line directly through the centre of the image (after compensating for camera tilt) will still be a straight line on the map. Lines towards the edge of the image will be -distorted- tilted by perspective. To see why, you can try to visualize taking the photo from the centre point of a small transparent -sphere- cylinder with vertical lines drawn on. All points on the image that lie on a vertical line are in the same direction and therefore will be in a straight line on a map.
That is not quite true. For a rectilinear photograph, every pixel at a particular x value has the same horizontal angle with respect to the camera. Thus, assuming that the camera is not tilted in any direction (sideways, or vertically), every column of pixels in the image is positioned exactly in a straight line on a Mercator map. Well at least locally, i.e. if we ignore the impact of earth's curvature. This fact is is not affected by altitude nor terrain. A picture from a mountain top is fine as long as the camera is not angled down, and the terrain does not have to be flat. In short, to trace a straight line path, just draw a vertical line in the image (or what you believe to be vertical if it's slightly tilted). *_Tip: If you don't know the distance, you can actually triangulate your position by drawing multiple vertical lines in the image, and seeing where the corresponding lines on the map converge._*
@@Dayanto Yes. Even if the camera is tilted, if you know the exact pose, anything on a single plane going through the camera and another object will project to a straight line in the image. This includes the plane perpendicular to the ground and going through the camera and one feature, which is exactly the what the Google Earth line will intersect. Altitude is not relevant since is a plane. The lines for all the radial, vertical, planes converge at the point where the camera would capture 'straight down' if the camera had a bigger FOV (or straight up if the camera is tilted upwards). This is not the bottom center of the image but usually below the image. The closer the camera is to flat the farther away that point is, up to infinity when it is perfectly flat when the lines are parallel and vertical. If you find two physically vertical lines in the image, you can trace them back to the vanishing point where they meet, and draw your landmark lines from there. Your guess of where the line should go is probably pretty good though, since humans are quite good at intuiting perspective.
@@piperboy98 nice explanation. So basically you draw a straight line vertically in 3d, taking into account perspective. That'll just work, since that line will correspond to a vertical plane that passes through the camera, and on a map, a vertical plane is just a line.
You should make your fans hold a picture and date with their name on. So you know that they are the one sending the picture and not trying to find the one on the picutre.
People probably used photos of themselves from holidays/trips/hikes from the past. Let's not encourage people to go out of their way just to take a picture in these trying times. Also if someone wanted to stalk a person this way, that would be ridiculous lol, with a youtuber guy who uploads the video to the internet for everyone to see.
I am from this region. This man took the photo from the middle of a mountain called Sugarloaf. Crazy that you found this!!!! Impressed me tell you that. This is a decently small region. With very little information. Wow, down to 10m for sure
Nice locating skills. Congratulations. I've been doing this for years while searching for realestate. It pisses people and myself off when they don't want to tell you the location in the add. So I've been applying similar methods of searching for clues in the photos where these's a part of a building or a view out of the window. I've gotten so good that I can actually pinpoint the exact apartment, house or window from a little bit of view. But the most impressive one had been once when a guy payed me to locate a business property and I was able to do it in 5 minutes by recognizing a door handle seen in the reflection of the window partially seen on the other side of the street. You can find a lot of things from one photo. The question is are you able to find enough information. I've noticed that I have a much better success rate and faster when I've actually been at a location before, compared to just remote searching. In a similar way I've been remote location scouting for filming, when I see a location in a film I'd like to use eventually, I then find it trough google maps.
My university teacher showed us a random airphoto and told us to find the latitude and longitude of it till the end of semester.It was our first year and we all thought that was impossible,but one girl did find the place in couple of days(the photo had bad quality and had one clue to work with).I am really glad i found you some months ago and i was waiting for some type of a similar video.This abillity is tremendously underrated by most people,but reckon hacking can be used in a lot of ways and its really effective.
Imagine authorities trying to pinpoint the location that someone took a picture, like, just before death or at the scene of a crime and they have to contact Tom to figure out where it is in the world. You never cease to amaze me, brother. Keep it up
Don’t know about death, but when my mothers phone was stolen I was able to get access to it through google account and see photos of new owner. In few evenings of intense googling I knew her name, her address, her school, all her relatives and location of the photos. So if I can do it I’m pretty sure that any security service can do it too.
Second one is a tad too simple. There's even a photograph of that sign on wiki if you literally just search Police Station Path on google. I think these kind of challenges need to censor place name etc... or may be any texts.
About the method: draw the line perpendicular to the horizon and that is going through two landmarks. If you imagine, you will have a whole set of parallel lines like this all over the photo. To understand how this works, imagine a plane in which lay camera, satellite and sight-points. The only way to see this plane as a projected line is as I have presented above.
This, boys and girls, is why Google's suite of tools is SCARY. This is the exact reason why content creators/other people of interest need to be very careful about sharing media recorded in sensitive locations (read: at home!). Now imagine if you played this game with photos of people who didn't know they were participating.
there are stories about how users from pages like 4chan found the house of some girl just looking at the photos, the trees and the angles, so yeah is quite scary depend of who you are, if you are a nobody, nobody will look for you.
For your strategy, I would use more than one line. In theory, the more objects you find in the background and draw a line to the center of the image, the more accurate it will be. Then do the same thing on Google Earth as well. Hope this helps. Not sure if someone else has mentioned it yet.
Forget the center of the photo. Find two landmarks that are vertically aligned, preferably to one side of the image, and draw a straight line through them on the map. Then find two more from the other side of the image and do the same. They should cross at the location of the camera on the map.
Hey a lot of people in the comments are offering complicated explanations for the lines on the photos trick, and that's all good, but there's an easy answer. Instead of drawing to the middle of the bottom, draw it so it would point at "your feet" if you were standing in the place where the photo was taken. To do this, you have to imagine how far down the actual ground is from the camera, and draw the line toward that imaginary point way beneath the bottom edge of photo. Lines from the left side of the photo will hit the bottom left of center, and from the right will hit on the right. But it won't be the exact center (unless the object is in the horizontal middle of the photo), and it also won't be straight down in most cases. This works because the line you draw on a map is a line on the ground. By drawing the line in the photo to point at the photographer's feet, you are recreating a line on the ground as well. (NOTE: If there is an elevation change, there will be a mild deviation. To correct this, draw toward a point that's at the same height as the target object, but vertically in line with the camera. So in the case of this first photo, the true correct point would not be the photographer's feet, but a point down in the earth directly below the camera, level with the bridge.)
this is a great way to do it, but a more reliable way would be to draw straight down from the very center of the photo, as the angle of this line won't vary with elevation and whatnot.
I would draw a line from the top center to the bottom center of the photo because you can assume with a reasonable amount of certainty that the camera is being held as level to the ground as they could.
that's made me realize that another potential way of doing this trick is to go to the center of the photo and draw the angles that the streets form, then try to match those angles in google earth, this may be harder to pull off but it should work every time.
Any line you draw on a picture will translate to a plane in 3d space. Since we try to match the view in the picture with a satellite we would need to make our line/plane strike through the position the satellite was when it took the picture. This is about 90° from the horizon and I believe the center of the picture needs to be stricken by said line. (We would have a vertical line in the middle and would need to choose two distinct houses on it to draw a line through them on Google Maps.)
Simple trigonometry to get the line right: 1) expand the picture (increase it's size, don't distort) down to include the approximate height of the man in the pic. 2) The central point at the bottom of the picture is now the point in ground under the camera. 3) draw the final line from the point in ground under the camera to the reference point. You'll see it's a bit to the right of the center of the reference picture, because it accounts for the height of the camera above ground. You can validate this method with the pictures that have GPS coordinates. P.S. the accuracy of this method = the horizontal distance between the man in the picture and the camera P.P.S. I haven't checked the exact math of my trigonometry. Math gurus step in and correct me, I just did it by intuition.
To draw those lines you should pick two points in the centre of the frame, those will point towards the location of the camera. If your first point is off-centre in the picture, parallax will throw your result.
If you play a game that lands you on streetview in a select few countries, you will pretty quickly recognize what different countries or geographical areas look like. If you play geoguessr for just a couple hours it'll stick with you what Canadian cities looks like, how to tell South Africa from Australia and just about anything else.
@@edvinsikstrom9882 There are not that many countries that it could have been, the only insane thing is the fact that he was on that island in the 3rd one and also the exact guess on 2nd.
@@skitstroppo Regardless if there was only a small proportion that it could have been.. Me being a non geographer looks at that pic and sees a lake, a bridge and a few hills. Whereas he knows Canada lol. I just personally think it's nuts how he can do it.
I’m watching this video from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, and I was sitting here thinking that the first one was Campbellton the whole time. The Campbellton Tigers hockey team is actually coming to town today to play against our local junior team where my brother is the equipment manager. It just came up on my feed today.
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It's my first time here. The video was awesome! I didn't know that this kind of hobby can be entertaining for others, as much as I do in my free time. Cause I was thinking about to make a channel, 9 or 10 months ago about how exactly I find places and people around the globe. So, I have experience in this geo detective thing, I have found many places I didn't know of before. Like a friend's of mine flat in a big city. I just mess up the exact floor with -2... in a 9 storey building. :D And the other one, when I just found the Swedish farm where I was goin' to volunteer before the travel. It was a fun video for me, I've learned a lot. It've given me some inspiration to make content like this! :)
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Sometimes fans stalk youtubers.
Tom just pulled the ultimate uno reverse card
This is such an underrated comment. Up
@@corkskrewsounds1940 Agreed. Reverse/Draw 4 (although I know that card doesn't exist).
Imagine if he did a collab with Jim Browning
Ok, this shit hit me harder that it should've lol
5th
You know it's getting serious when he pulls out Paint
It was going to be, until he didn’t know how to connect two referece points on the image. (The line should be vertically down.)
@@profile., Yes, a line from the center of the image, vertically down would be the most useful one. (that, is, if the horizon is perfectly aligned horizontally)
Paint is my lord and savior for my studies (Software Engineering)
@@niekboon4702 Haha yeah I use paint all the time, it's perfect for two second jobs or just drawing a quick line without having to bother with layers and all that rubbish
I use it for Web Dev when I want to know the exact number of pixels in a gap or a border.
I can't believe I'm spending my Friday night watching a man on TH-cam researching Canadian cantilever truss bridges
😭
And enjoying every second of it lmao
He makes anything fun haha
Haha me neither, strangely entertaining. I want to know how close he was now.
I can't believe I don't spend every Friday night like this!
18:19 “oh jesus i’m in brazil” is the best reaction to being in brazil i’ve ever heard
"oh jesus i'm in brazil" -everyone at some point in their lives
crying in brazilian
EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE 🤧
no
I've not gotten to that point in my life yet and quite frankly I'm terrified of the thought that I eventually will
@@Nexius_ Someday you will wake up, open your eyes and realise that you are, indeed, in Brazil
Imagine sending him a photo of yourself standing in front of his house
at night
"here is a photo of me standing outside of a bathroom window in the dark, guess where I am"
and with a smile with your eyes wide open
@@its5pm standing behind him
@@willekool6012 OH HELL NAWWW XD
18:18 "Oh Jesus, I'm in Brazil"
Happens to the best of us
You're going to Brazil
@@Splinter-ge9pf you're going to brasil
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@@gablemos621 tavatentandosénaotradusiveu
22:40 A photogrammetrist. And the technique is to use vertical lines across the photograph, and plot them on the map. They will converge at a single point.
you basstärts with yör blänetterry p´hörrl b4 $vvinüscie ^ ^
änyhöw since i seenn the tängey vvintämtäm hill ´thing lemmy kinda drawer v?v the ´competitiön in öddhörr pläycess hear...
a back alley even building in-?-cörner... ´häl 9k might find it in ´secönds..?
cheers m8$ -:- ps they´d use similärr just ^??^
PLEASE GET HIM TO READ THIS, THIS MIGHT BE USEFUL
You have to draw the line vertically down compared to the horizon on the image, because you observe the map vertically. The edges or the orientation of the image do not matter in this case. If you want to pinpoint the position of your perspective on a plane (aka. the map), your two reference points on the horizontal plane should form a vertical plane of possiple positions in 3D space, or a line of possible positions on the map, but you can only create this plane if you know what is upwards. (You get this information from the horizon, if the image is tilted.) If you see two objects separated only vertically in real life, you will be able to draw a line throug them on a map, that will include your position, but only if you look down on on the map vertically.
This works even if your digital map includes 3d features, but again, only if both the line within your perspective, and your perspective of the map is vertical.
Also: it doesn’t matter where on the image are the two reference points, as long as they’re vertically separated.
Also also: since you drew your line to the left, the actual position of the guy would have been not on the hilltop, but on the route on the side.
EDIT: I've just made a video on my channel explaining this :)
EDIT_2: I have a new and improved video taking other people's suggestions into account th-cam.com/video/DcX9VIi1rNc/w-d-xo.html
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This is correct. Draw a line where the horizon of the image would be if it was taken in the middle of an infinitely large field. Draw a line perpendicular to this imaginary horizon, passing through the centre of the image. This line will pass over all of the objects between the lens and the object in the centre of your image and you can then align these objects on the map. Unfortunately this will not work for cropped images because you generally will not know where the true centre of the image is.
Most cameras have a bit of a fisheye effect though, won't that make it wrong?
@@BadgerStyler I think what you're referring to is called 'barrel distortion' and afaik it doesn't affect straight lines going through the center of the image. Even if it did, the effect would probably be negligible for most camera lenses.
UP
@@7362xvdvdjjell Ironically, what you subconsciously do when you imagine yourself in that space, is you create a vertical plane in your field of view, that includes two features seen on the map.
If this guy was a spy, an ninja or a stalker we would be living in fear at all time. He is not just powerful enough to cross a country in a straight line, he can also find any person with just one photo.
He will cross the continents in a straight line until he finds you. And he will find you.
Moves 50m to the left.
_Oh, I don't think so._
@@DustMug So you have choosen death.
He will just walk through time and space itself and get you
@@Tentakulus. Spacetime will fold such that he's technically still moving in a straight line as he reroutes to seek the victim.
@@dingchat555 Tom is like the villain from "It Follows"
**Tries to find angle photo was taken**
Google Earth: You're going to brazil
Your nickname is funnier than your comment
Timestamp: 18:18
@@FeLiNe418 So is mine.
Well well well, looks like your not the only Colonel Sanders watching this video
first to bring chicken to me wins. source of meat is irrelevant, I'm hungry.
As a brazillian, I laughed so much when he got pulled into a black hole and ended up in Brazil at 18:09
Now even google earth invite you to go there...
"oh jesus, im in Brazil" na moral kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Brazil... lovely place... could be a real black hole 😅
We love tourists, visit us!!
@@omnia9348 All travel to and from Brasil is banned. Only citizen can return but will have to be isolated in hotel for 2 weeks.
"I'm not the best at googling"
*finds a list of steel truss cantilever bridges in the exact country he was looking for*
*that's not enough*
@@conradparsons1856 how did you do that
@da dog wit da big nose
Would love to see people submit coordinate data for their actual location along with the photo so you can confirm it straight away. I know that's hard with holiday photos, but for people submitting photos taken specifically for it, that'd be fun (and basically you can get distance accuracy results at the end too) :D
yeah maybe have them send the coords to some random email of Tom's so he can check it later without having it spoiled when he downloads their image.
@@holdenellis1395 you can geotag photos, so he just would open photodetails and would see it
@@flixusflexus yes most phones today geotag all photos. Maybe he'll need to open photos in the native apps tho.
I know that if I were doing this, I'd be waaay too tempted to cheat if the gps data was close to hand.
Yes, it would be nice to see data commented on in the same video, but I don't think it's worth it if it gives the option of Tom accidentaly looking at the answer, or giving in to temptation when the search becomes tough.
There's something nice about knowing there's no way he could cheat this as well, having the reveal at a seperate time to the guessing adds credibility to this video from a viewers point of view.
@@John-Smlth I'm almost insulted that you think Tom would lie to us, it's Tom bloody Davies!
" Oh jesus, I am in Brazil"
That's what I say every morning
same
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Hello fellow brazilian sksksksksk
KKKKK
A fate worse than death
"I've seen the unblurred version ;)"
Best pick-up line 😂
What's your favourite sign, fellow witcher?
Please tell my you didn't use the image just because it looks cool
@@マスク-t8u Cringe
@@AstralPandaBoi why do you think so
@@マスク-t8u stfu
@@マスク-t8u don tlisten to them your epic
Having it be the only bridge without a photo was just too good
Imagine being the guy that put together hundreds of photos of bridges thinking no one would ever use it.
@@nikiinge6386 hahaha exatcly, probably thought no one would use this site
the bridge in google earth seems still under construction, the man gathered his list probably around the same time.
I was afraid for a moment that he wasn't going to google the bridge and just move on to the next one. I was like, "It doesn't have a photo, it must be that one!"
S tier content - Was absolutely creasing at this vid and the extreme methods GW went through to pinpoint
ok
creasing haha i love that word
I agree, I was in complete awe for the bridge one especially
Dont you mean G tier? S tier is shit tier
@@MrBlackCoffee96 In a tier list, S tier stands for super tier nowadays
18:19 „oh jesus, i’m in brazil.“ this shouldn’t have made me laugh this hard
COME TO BRAZIL!
I died laughing at this one, tbh hahahaha
That caught me off guard
As a brazillian, i can confirm that i got him and sended him to Brazil.
r/suddenlycaralho
You want to make the line straight down from your point. Orthogonal to the horizon. The middle of the photo is changing with your rotation.
Shouldn't it work to draw 2 lines from 2 different reference points to the middlge of the picture and then draw the same lines on google earth and where they intersect the photo is taken?
@@TechlogicProductions I don't think that would work, because if you aim/rotate the camera a bit more up or down your method would result in different locations. I think it may be possible to create a line with the correct location on it with your method.
Another method I think could work (but I'm not sure) is just using his method but taking a reference point in the middle of the picture and going straight down, because the middle of the picture is always right in front of you. I think that's why his second attempt was more accurate than his first one. We don't know for sure how accurate his first one was but it seemed a bit off while the second one, with a reference point closer to the middle of the picture, was almost spot on.
Draw a line down the center of the photo. Then draw on google earth things that touch the line in the photo
@@TechlogicProductions I think it might work but it would need more math i thing, if i am understanding you, if you wanted to draw a line in the photo, from a spot on the photo, to the shutter of the camera, then you would need to draw a dot, since light goes straigt, from the object to the camera, that same dot, in a map would look like a straigt line, if you took 2 reference points, and draw 2 lines and where they intersect yeah it would be the position, but, you need more information to deremine the angles at which you draw the lines on the map because moving a few meters to right or left of the position, the reference objects would still be visible but the angles of the lines in the map would´ve changed
@@pomonoli about the other method , I think you are right, but it could also be applied to any point, in the image, if you select a reference point and draw a line to the bottom of the image, everythin that is touched by that line, would match in the line in the map, the reason why it worked in the second case better than in the first place, is because of the coincidence that the reference he chose was in the middle, to pinpoint the exact location he would need 2 reference points in the image, draw 2 lines to the bottom, and draw those lines in the map by using the reference point, and how the lines intersect other objects on the image
I got so excited when you found the bridge! The other two were good too but especially the first one :)
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet TH-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear megab
@@AxxLAfriku ks jhxbdjekxisk knejc
I was just waiting for him to say "get in".
I've done that geodetective thing in my city (only a few square kilometres), and I was able to find the location.
@Jackson’s Account Nah, they bot fast.
that's actually the best ad you could ever make for why being careful online matters
Yeah, that's why you should be careful of what you post on social media. Someone can actually stalk you.
you havent seen the shia labeuf stuff have you...... reddit was able to find the location of a flag pinned on a blank white wall in a house.... within 2 hours.......... not a joke not an exaggeration.. only thing they had was the sun light and they calculated that from the video to narrow down a location then went through a neighborhood with a flashlight and found it by shining a light into the window and saw it on the live stream...... they did this multiple times...... to include finding a flag in an open field in nowhere by noticing planes flying by and seeing the flight log and more and more.... the internet is scary.... if they want to find you..... they will......
@@Fleato Internet Historians video on it is really good
@@Fleato I though it was 4chan. But either way, it was mental. They also think they tracked it down to a completely enclosed log cabin, based on the type of wood. There was no natural light so that was all they could go on. That one took them quite a bit longer than the others which they had always managed to track down in well under 6 hours.
@@GriseWeisshark hope so, I may make a friend
Just in case you don’t know yet, you can use quotation marks and the minus symbol to do an advanced search.
For example you case use “truss” “green” so all your searches would include the two inside the quotation marks. You can eliminate Jacques Bridge by adding -jacques and the results wouldn’t include results for anything that includes the word jacques. So you search would look like:
“truss” “bridge” “green” -jacques
Have a nice day!
Thanks, very helpful!
Another trick is to cross it with a different search engine...
With Google you risk getting "poisoned" search results, meaning it may drown out what you are looking for with what is most popularly searched for in some obscure fashion.
Other search engines that do not try to individualize the search results, may give you more consistent results rather than "poisoned" ones by history.
Im sure it will be helpful
If anyone is wondering how to learn more about stuff like this, I believe it is called a Boolean search. A bunch of databases have their own versions
@@CMDRSweeper which search engines are you talking about?
Hey you have selected my photo on top the Sugarloaf at 16:46 and 21:45 . Awesome! It looks like the man in the photo was standing at the 2nd observation that is just after the rock steps and a little over half way up.
I can't believe you actually answered. What are the odds.
Pickle 🥒 Rik!?
"Let me know rik savage if you're watching"
actually does
@@resonate9815 yooo this is sooooo mad bro... first of all he actually managed to find that bridge and now you commenting here and also im from moncton .. this world is a small place hahah
I knew it was Campbellton looking at the thumbnail, pretty cool to see!
I love how people were joking about giving him one picture and Geowizard will find your location, yeah uhh...
I love that he actually did it
The prophecy is true.
You know theres metadata included in the picture revealing your exact GPS coordinates? right click on any image you've taken on your phone and click properties > details.
Hope you learned something :)
@@wilkinson6400 Well yea but that takes the fun out of it. The whole point is to use deductive reasoning to figure out the spot.
@@wilkinson6400 no, modern phones erase metadata once shared.
The FBI is suddenly very interested in your particular set of skills.
And no I'm not even joking, this is potentially a seriously valuable skill.
My friend doxxed me once by a picture of just my street
@@UnrebornMortuus was the street name in the picture? 🤨
@@UnrebornMortuus this is nothing. My cousin stalked a girl i was talking to by just seeing her once on the beach
@@kdizzy07 Nope and it was really dark
I legit had tests for this for the IDF intelligence units
This is the equivalent of 2b2t players:
"I recognize that air block, see you soon"
The oldest anarchy server in minecraft
i recognize that tree, see you soon on the oldest anarchy server in minecraft
this is a good comment
i recognize that grass , see you soon
I recognize that pixel, see you soon.
When googling, add a "-" before words to exclude results pertaining to them from the search. So for example, if you didn't want to see that one bridge, you could have put -Jacques somewhere in the search.
That's cool
Took me 'til "Lee Ki Faucet" to realize that you had not, in fact, made some gross fan privacy oversight by blurring their faces but leaving in their names
"Bananus Hippledick" was a giveaway as well
I laughed at Culetto Totti, which from Italian to english would be "Smallbutt Totti"
Ah, thanks. I would not have realised that. If the names are censored, though, I'm even more confused about why the faces are...
@@607 It’s because of a lot of reasons. Say someone knew the person, but the person had cut them out of their lives, the person would know where they were. That’s just one example, which there are many.
@@607 I’m guessing it’s less about a person finding someone as others mention but more about being 100% someone consents to their persona rights being on a video.
Especially with GDPR someone could later come and say they want it removed and without releases before hand he’d have to pull it.
Also on the submission form he may list that he’s going to do make it as anon as possible, so it’s just a little extra effort...
I can't believe you weren't more excited when you did the 2nd one!?!?!?!? THAT WAS INSANE!
Tbh it really wasn’t
I think he didn't give himself credit considering he searched for "police station path". However I believe he was just a couple of steps off from getting there all by himself because he'd already guessed Hong Kong. From there, based on his usual approach, it would have required surveying some stations at random in the right areas until he saw "police station path" nearby. It was impressive even without the search.
Jesus, man. You just dropped the street view guy exactly on the spot in Hong Kong. I can’t believe that.
If there is a user-submitted panorama, google maps tends to make your pinpoint lead to there (even if it was slightly off), since a user-submitted image usually means that there's something significant there. Still a big coincidence!
IM GONNA BE MAD IF THIS A SPOILER
When he was looking at the Jacques-Cartier bridge, I thought he would notice the Olympic Stadium in the background
Oh hi speedrun banana
Banana!
Hello from there haha
Criss d'épais
Bismuth you are a LEGEND! keep up the good work man
This reminds me of 4chan tracking down Shia Labeouf's flag in front of a blue sky from a video feed using the planes that flew by.
weaponized autism is a wonderful thing
Came here to see this comment
Planes, social media, astronomy and trigonometry
@@klontjespap lmao what? Tf is that supposed to mean?
@@ohnoheb Using the ability to focus in on little details as a weapon. Even more so when people pool their resources.
As well as flight data, they also researched the sounds of animals that could be heard in the background, and people who thought they lived nearby drove round the local roads honking.
The bridge one was crazy, but the police station path was so sudden and unexpected. What an absolute legend.
Yeah I thought that it was more of a description and not an actual name. Still would've looked it up like he did but I was not expecting it to give any actual results.
yeah so fast :O
"Putting the man down" immediately gets it lmao
the bridge he could've found in 2minutes using similar photos in google image search...
@@heitorcornelius well yeah but then there's no point to the challenge
At this point I am starting to think my man has walked down the street infront of my house more than me.
A street in front of your house? Okay that's too much he definitely knows where you live now.
He actually did walk past my grandma's house when he was travelling through europe 😂
@@janikpremrov4750 lmao
“Why do you freeze when I’m trying to be... a detective 🕵🏽♂️ “
here is how you do the line on the photo technique:
- draw a vertical line through the centre of the photograph
- take a note of the landmarks it crosses
- draw a line through the same landmarks on google earth
- the person is standing on that line
*this works with every vertical line regardless of horizontal position. The only time it doesn't work is if the camera is tilted.
thanks Ilmari Karonen for clearing it up.
It also doesn't work if the photo was taken with a tilt/shift lens... I mean, not that those are common but... just being thorough ;)
@@lonedfx but it sa good start, and also as a good example in the last picture by Anna, draw a 2nd line from a different point, so where the lines cross, should be where the photo was taken.
That actually works with any vertical line, not just through the center. But it needs to be vertical *in reality*, not in the photo, so if the photo is tilted, it gets harder. The easiest way in such cases is to pick some actual vertical feature (pole, tree, building corner, etc.) as close to some useful landmarks as possible and draw the line parallel to it.
Geometrically, the vertical pole/tree/corner/whatever and the focal point of the camera define a unique vertical plane in 3D that they both fall in. Since the plane passes through the focal point, all objects physically within that plane will be projected onto the same line in the 2D image plane. (The line will be straight in the picture if the camera uses a rectilinear projection, as most cameras at least approximately do. For something like a fisheye lens, the line will of course generally be curved.) And since the plane is vertical, its projection onto the ground will be a straight line on a map.
If the camera is pointed at the horizon and not tilted, then these vertical planes will be projected onto vertical lines in the image. But if not, they will be tilted, possibly by different amounts on different sides of the picture, which is why you really want to use a local vertical reference. Or I suppose you could first correct the camera tilt, e.g. using panorama stitching software like hugin, and *then* look for vertically aligned landmarks.
(A vertical line near the center is a good choice if you can tell from the picture that the horizon is straight but the camera could be pointed above or below it. In that case the perspective tilt will be symmetrical, so that vertical lines on the left side of the photo will tilt one way and those on the right side will tilt the opposite way, and vertical lines near the center will be approximately vertical in the photo too. At least, as you note, unless the photo has been asymmetrically cropped.)
I love the fact that the picture from the girl in the italian lake(city of stresa, lago maggiore) is where I spent all my childhood summers, the swimming pool he sees is the one I used to swim in, and the big grey boat is the one I used to jump off to get into the lake. Quite emotional, thank you for the video!
funny thats where my sumalian friend drowned...
oh.
bruh
Welcome in the big small world
@@Dzexel oh
Tom, you're the only youtuber I have been watching for 3 years without a break and goddamn I don't regret it. This is high quality content. Chapeau!
I guess you could say you're a Geo Apprentice now.
The real expression is "chapeau bas", translate to hat down
3 years nonstop...? Damn get some sleep
@@bismuth6558 It's common to just say "chapeau" though. Like "congrats" instead of "congratulations"
@@teraspeXt fair enough :))
18:17 me waking up after a night of drinking with the boys
Let’s start a petition with the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola to officially rebrand Isola Superiore to Buongiorno Island
GW fell in love with Lake Maggiore 🇮🇹
We should organize a meetup where we all say "Buongiorno"
Imagine what this guy can do with 2 screens
Someone get this man a second monitor
The FBI doesn't want that as they all would lose their jobs if he had 2 monitors.
Just when you think his content can't get any better, he pulls another rabbit out of the hat. What a ledge
What a ledge
What a ledge
This could be a game show where multiple people compete against each other
the fact that she had a picture in front of the islands you and Greg discovered while travelling Europe is just awesome! That series for me is some of the greatest content on youtube!
Yeah, I think there'll someday be a plaque there saying "Here is where Tom and Greg said buongiorno"
18:08 That moment when he suddenly teleported to Brazil had me dying ngl
'This guy is never going to find one random bridge in the world'....... - Surprised Pikachu -
“Alright, now lets delve into the world of steel truss cantilever bridges”
Me: you lead the way captain
Honesty kinda scary that you can figure out exactly were someone is in a photo like this
It's not really that hard, half of the world is very much positively unique once you look at the sum of all details.
Why is it scary?
@Adrian Bergersen to be fair these are very information dense pictures, a photo of you standing against a wall or in a forest with no landmarks at all wouldn't be very revealing.
@Adrian Bergersen Also there probably aren't many weirdos who are absolute GeoGuessr pros
@Adrian Bergersen they can do that anyway if they look into the photo's metadata
LIKE IT SO HE SEES THIS IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL. If you're trying to pinpoint the location of the photo you should draw the line perpendicular to the line of the horizon. If you're sure the photo is taken exactly vertically or horizontally that means going straight down. The horizon is a circle. You're always slightly above it's center. Drawing a line perpendicular to the horizon means drawing a radius of that circle, that will always lead you to the center of it- the camera.
Finally someone who got it right! 😁👍🏻
I had thought of telling GeoWiz the line should go straight down but you're right! the Photo could be tilted...
His idea of estimating where the photographer's feet were would have worked too, albeit with less precision than the horizon method
Can someone further explain or link a resource that explains this in more detail
You're absolutely right but I think the explanation is a bit suspect (or just hard to follow). I think I'll make a video about this in a bit, because it's an interesting bit of geometry.
Can't wait for the grand finale where he successfully pinpoints his own location.
Only to be completely shocked that he has somehow, once again, warped into Brazil 🤣
Someone in Canada: im gonna take you to brasil
The camera: **warps to brazil**
I've been loving these videos. I used to do this very often as a private investigator. I'd locate people by their Facebook photos all the time.
THis was wonderful, It reminded me of the early geowizard days where i was amazed you were studying the types of grass and the angles of the sun and just going full detective. Awesome cant wait for more I loved this.
“🎶why do you freeze when im trying to be a detective🎶”
-geo guesser the musical
"Why do you- oh"
-also, geoguessr the musical
I hope this series get's many more episodes!
dude, have you thought about aiding national and international agencies/orgs in identifying locations of photos/videos of trafficking victims? your skills would be incredible for that
you may be onto something
just about to comment that
@@erxtcdyfvugbhinjomk1953 same like there’s probably other people with this guys brain and they can all work together on helping out the investigations
This should be top comment
I am pretty sure that the fbi or other organisations have people much more capable for this kinda work. No disrespect of course.
That second one was insane, I had to pause the whole video just to freak out at how amazing that was. He placed the little dude down exactly there, I can't believe it. Get in.
“What did you watch for fun during the pandemic grandpa?”
“There was this guy, more a wizard some say... he could track a person a simple photo”
“We’re they criminals?!”
“No no, just random people”
“Oh so you and your nerdy friends”
“NO THOUSANDS OF US...”
“So just you and your nerdy cult?”
'' oh so you and your nerdy friends" LOL!!!!!
using geolocation to be a peeping tom ;)
I get extra pumped when the theme song is rolling in the background
Anyone know what the song is called?
@@alexlee4992 its from his album (16-bit adventure)
@@afonsorodrigues3913 Appreciate it!
Oh man the (possible) Campbelton one made me so excited as a New Brunswicker!! Finally we get some NB representation :)
If you put a minus sign before a term in google it will show results where that term doesn't appear. helpful for when you didnt want that one bridge to show up. you can also combine it with quotes so it'd be like -"bridge name"
this comment has changed my life, thank you stranger
Literally MVP of the Internet right here and I like to think I'm a good 'googler'
I don’t understand when this would be useful
@@Mozzie7920 Then you haven't watched the video before commenting
@@Mozzie7920 imagine you want to Google Tom's straight line missions but want to exclude all the results about the ones through wales you could google "straight line mission -wales" to get results that exclude wales
Drawing the line in paint won't give you exact results, even if you know exactly where the picture was taken from: The straight line in paint isn't a straight line on the ground (it's as the crow flies), the one in google earth is. Basically, you're projecting a straight line through the air onto the ground, which won't work if the ground isn't flat, as in the first picture where you're standing on a hill.
Great content either way though!
Would a 3D line on Google Earth work?
If the camera is pointing perfectly at the horizon, then any vertical line in the picture will be a straight line on the map. If not, then the vertical line directly through the centre of the image (after compensating for camera tilt) will still be a straight line on the map. Lines towards the edge of the image will be -distorted- tilted by perspective.
To see why, you can try to visualize taking the photo from the centre point of a small transparent -sphere- cylinder with vertical lines drawn on. All points on the image that lie on a vertical line are in the same direction and therefore will be in a straight line on a map.
That is not quite true. For a rectilinear photograph, every pixel at a particular x value has the same horizontal angle with respect to the camera.
Thus, assuming that the camera is not tilted in any direction (sideways, or vertically), every column of pixels in the image is positioned exactly in a straight line on a Mercator map. Well at least locally, i.e. if we ignore the impact of earth's curvature.
This fact is is not affected by altitude nor terrain. A picture from a mountain top is fine as long as the camera is not angled down, and the terrain does not have to be flat.
In short, to trace a straight line path, just draw a vertical line in the image (or what you believe to be vertical if it's slightly tilted).
*_Tip: If you don't know the distance, you can actually triangulate your position by drawing multiple vertical lines in the image, and seeing where the corresponding lines on the map converge._*
@@Dayanto Yes. Even if the camera is tilted, if you know the exact pose, anything on a single plane going through the camera and another object will project to a straight line in the image. This includes the plane perpendicular to the ground and going through the camera and one feature, which is exactly the what the Google Earth line will intersect. Altitude is not relevant since is a plane. The lines for all the radial, vertical, planes converge at the point where the camera would capture 'straight down' if the camera had a bigger FOV (or straight up if the camera is tilted upwards). This is not the bottom center of the image but usually below the image. The closer the camera is to flat the farther away that point is, up to infinity when it is perfectly flat when the lines are parallel and vertical. If you find two physically vertical lines in the image, you can trace them back to the vanishing point where they meet, and draw your landmark lines from there. Your guess of where the line should go is probably pretty good though, since humans are quite good at intuiting perspective.
@@piperboy98 nice explanation. So basically you draw a straight line vertically in 3d, taking into account perspective. That'll just work, since that line will correspond to a vertical plane that passes through the camera, and on a map, a vertical plane is just a line.
You should make your fans hold a picture and date with their name on. So you know that they are the one sending the picture and not trying to find the one on the picutre.
Exactly what i thought, also, why did he censor the face if we can see the name of the person anyway?
Joaquin Raigo i hope this is a joke but those are not their real names 😅
People probably used photos of themselves from holidays/trips/hikes from the past. Let's not encourage people to go out of their way just to take a picture in these trying times.
Also if someone wanted to stalk a person this way, that would be ridiculous lol, with a youtuber guy who uploads the video to the internet for everyone to see.
@@AcaciaBieberLove ooh really?
@@joaquinlaroca2886 Bananus Hippledick sounds pretty fake to me. That or his parents hated him.
I am from this region. This man took the photo from the middle of a mountain called Sugarloaf. Crazy that you found this!!!! Impressed me tell you that. This is a decently small region. With very little information. Wow, down to 10m for sure
FBI wants to know your location "We're interested in your skills Mr.Geowizard"
GeoWizard wants to know the FBI's location
@@kacperkazaniecki596
He probably already found them
YOU MEAN KGB COMRADE
The bridge picture is my hometown, I audibly gasped when I saw the thumbnail!
This is the most attention NB has ever gotten hahahaha
But did you gasp like Tom did when he first saw the bridge on Google Earth?
I recently discovered Geoguessr, love it and now, this channel. This level of nerdiness makes me happy.
Nice locating skills. Congratulations.
I've been doing this for years while searching for realestate. It pisses people and myself off when they don't want to tell you the location in the add.
So I've been applying similar methods of searching for clues in the photos where these's a part of a building or a view out of the window.
I've gotten so good that I can actually pinpoint the exact apartment, house or window from a little bit of view.
But the most impressive one had been once when a guy payed me to locate a business property and I was able to do it in 5 minutes by recognizing a door handle seen in the reflection of the window partially seen on the other side of the street.
You can find a lot of things from one photo. The question is are you able to find enough information. I've noticed that I have a much better success rate and faster when I've actually been at a location before, compared to just remote searching.
In a similar way I've been remote location scouting for filming, when I see a location in a film I'd like to use eventually, I then find it trough google maps.
I pinpoint appartments for rent around my city as well. So much fun. :D
@@l.s.11 Yeah it is. :) I love doing that. Too bad we can't do anything about the high prices. ;)
Love that this guy is blowing up, watched him for a long time.
My university teacher showed us a random airphoto and told us to find the latitude and longitude of it till the end of semester.It was our first year and we all thought that was impossible,but one girl did find the place in couple of days(the photo had bad quality and had one clue to work with).I am really glad i found you some months ago and i was waiting for some type of a similar video.This abillity is tremendously underrated by most people,but reckon hacking can be used in a lot of ways and its really effective.
18:13
NOOOOO GEOWIZARD HAS BEEN SENT TO BRAZIL NOOOO
We got him. Ransom is 250 Million COVID vaccines. Pay up and you'll see him alive again.
“Oh jesus I’m in Brazil” is the most in intentionally funny thing I have ever heard in my entire life.
‘Not that impressive as far as cantilever truss bridges go’ is my new tinder bio
Imagine authorities trying to pinpoint the location that someone took a picture, like, just before death or at the scene of a crime and they have to contact Tom to figure out where it is in the world. You never cease to amaze me, brother. Keep it up
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Don’t know about death, but when my mothers phone was stolen I was able to get access to it through google account and see photos of new owner. In few evenings of intense googling I knew her name, her address, her school, all her relatives and location of the photos. So if I can do it I’m pretty sure that any security service can do it too.
@@JustRandomPerson or for that matter everyone with enough time. It helps having knowledge to not search in africa instead of canada.
@@maximiliandeisz2961 in practical situation you typically know that)
@@JustRandomPerson yes but even if not. It would only take a few hours more
First fan: **Takes about half the video to find**
Second fan: **Practically instantly found**
Second one is a tad too simple. There's even a photograph of that sign on wiki if you literally just search Police Station Path on google. I think these kind of challenges need to censor place name etc... or may be any texts.
Yep, that’s what happened. Well done
About the method: draw the line perpendicular to the horizon and that is going through two landmarks. If you imagine, you will have a whole set of parallel lines like this all over the photo.
To understand how this works, imagine a plane in which lay camera, satellite and sight-points. The only way to see this plane as a projected line is as I have presented above.
Damn he's so good at geo guessing he scans the entire planet slowly based off clues like "water" and "bridge"
Stubbornness is it’s own skill.
i thought that then tried it its impossible
I can't wait to see more of this new format!
IDGAF what anyone says that "Woooosh" he does every time he spins around the globe adds to the experience 😂
Thank u bro blessings 27:48
18:12 "Oh dear, oh Jesus, I am in Brazil" relatable tbh
This, boys and girls, is why Google's suite of tools is SCARY. This is the exact reason why content creators/other people of interest need to be very careful about sharing media recorded in sensitive locations (read: at home!). Now imagine if you played this game with photos of people who didn't know they were participating.
Not to mention that some social media sites don't even remove EXIF data, making it trivial to find the exact location of a photo in under a minute
And it's way worse for creators because usually they say their state which just makes it easier to find the location
there are stories about how users from pages like 4chan found the house of some girl just looking at the photos, the trees and the angles, so yeah is quite scary depend of who you are, if you are a nobody, nobody will look for you.
@@coolnamehere8224 What social media sites show exif data? I don't know of any that do.
@@TheDeterminer they don’t explicitly show the exif data, but if you save the picture off of the site then you have access to the metadata.
Hey I'm from Campbellton, New Brunswick and I instantly knew this photo was taken on top of Mount Sugarloaf lol! Great video and GG of finding it!
I knew straight away where the first one was, grew up not too far from it! Great job finding it!
For your strategy, I would use more than one line. In theory, the more objects you find in the background and draw a line to the center of the image, the more accurate it will be. Then do the same thing on Google Earth as well. Hope this helps. Not sure if someone else has mentioned it yet.
I can't wait to see Ludwig's reaction to this...
Ludwig sending his appendicitis surgery/vacation pictures for the series would be fun
He gon cooom
Is ludwig's stream still going?
Sincerely,
A youtube frog
@@leadnitrate2194 yup, just checked and he has ~70 hours on the timer
@@leadnitrate2194 yup we’re all currently watching this video on his stream
Forget the center of the photo. Find two landmarks that are vertically aligned, preferably to one side of the image, and draw a straight line through them on the map. Then find two more from the other side of the image and do the same. They should cross at the location of the camera on the map.
Hey a lot of people in the comments are offering complicated explanations for the lines on the photos trick, and that's all good, but there's an easy answer. Instead of drawing to the middle of the bottom, draw it so it would point at "your feet" if you were standing in the place where the photo was taken. To do this, you have to imagine how far down the actual ground is from the camera, and draw the line toward that imaginary point way beneath the bottom edge of photo. Lines from the left side of the photo will hit the bottom left of center, and from the right will hit on the right. But it won't be the exact center (unless the object is in the horizontal middle of the photo), and it also won't be straight down in most cases.
This works because the line you draw on a map is a line on the ground. By drawing the line in the photo to point at the photographer's feet, you are recreating a line on the ground as well.
(NOTE: If there is an elevation change, there will be a mild deviation. To correct this, draw toward a point that's at the same height as the target object, but vertically in line with the camera. So in the case of this first photo, the true correct point would not be the photographer's feet, but a point down in the earth directly below the camera, level with the bridge.)
Thats exactly what I was thinking
this is a great way to do it, but a more reliable way would be to draw straight down from the very center of the photo, as the angle of this line won't vary with elevation and whatnot.
I would draw a line from the top center to the bottom center of the photo because you can assume with a reasonable amount of certainty that the camera is being held as level to the ground as they could.
that's made me realize that another potential way of doing this trick is to go to the center of the photo and draw the angles that the streets form, then try to match those angles in google earth, this may be harder to pull off but it should work every time.
Any line you draw on a picture will translate to a plane in 3d space. Since we try to match the view in the picture with a satellite we would need to make our line/plane strike through the position the satellite was when it took the picture. This is about 90° from the horizon and I believe the center of the picture needs to be stricken by said line.
(We would have a vertical line in the middle and would need to choose two distinct houses on it to draw a line through them on Google Maps.)
this is some of the craziest shit I've seen in a while. Wanted to skip ahead but waiting and watching the whole process was SO Satisfying!!!
Oh yes, this is such a cool idea! And the music man, it's just beautiful. Keep on doing what you're doing!
18:19 "Oh Jesus I'm in Brazil"
ZULUL
Como assim
brazil monkaW
@@gabrielkisner2947 teu país, lindo
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No more ZULUL Sadge
Simple trigonometry to get the line right:
1) expand the picture (increase it's size, don't distort) down to include the approximate height of the man in the pic.
2) The central point at the bottom of the picture is now the point in ground under the camera.
3) draw the final line from the point in ground under the camera to the reference point. You'll see it's a bit to the right of the center of the reference picture, because it accounts for the height of the camera above ground. You can validate this method with the pictures that have GPS coordinates.
P.S. the accuracy of this method = the horizontal distance between the man in the picture and the camera
P.P.S. I haven't checked the exact math of my trigonometry. Math gurus step in and correct me, I just did it by intuition.
How has the FBI not hired him to find international criminals for millions of dollars
Well first of all international criminals usually don't take selfies on open, public places with distinctive topography and other features
@@bragapedro I do 😈
they will in a year or 2 their just testing him
there's better guys than him doing this very thing
Well because the FBI works on national criminal activity. The CIA is the one that cares about other countries and international criminals.
To draw those lines you should pick two points in the centre of the frame, those will point towards the location of the camera. If your first point is off-centre in the picture, parallax will throw your result.
The fact that he goes
'this is canada' in the first one.
Insane skills.
If you play a game that lands you on streetview in a select few countries, you will pretty quickly recognize what different countries or geographical areas look like. If you play geoguessr for just a couple hours it'll stick with you what Canadian cities looks like, how to tell South Africa from Australia and just about anything else.
@@skitstroppo but still impressive
@@edvinsikstrom9882 There are not that many countries that it could have been, the only insane thing is the fact that he was on that island in the 3rd one and also the exact guess on 2nd.
@@htsandy3136 I guessed that it was canada as well before he said it but it's still insane that he found the exact location and i could not do that
@@skitstroppo Regardless if there was only a small proportion that it could have been..
Me being a non geographer looks at that pic and sees a lake, a bridge and a few hills. Whereas he knows Canada lol.
I just personally think it's nuts how he can do it.
I’m watching this video from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, and I was sitting here thinking that the first one was Campbellton the whole time. The Campbellton Tigers hockey team is actually coming to town today to play against our local junior team where my brother is the equipment manager. It just came up on my feed today.
It's my first time here. The video was awesome! I didn't know that this kind of hobby can be entertaining for others, as much as I do in my free time.
Cause I was thinking about to make a channel, 9 or 10 months ago about how exactly I find places and people around the globe.
So, I have experience in this geo detective thing, I have found many places I didn't know of before.
Like a friend's of mine flat in a big city. I just mess up the exact floor with -2... in a 9 storey building. :D
And the other one, when I just found the Swedish farm where I was goin' to volunteer before the travel.
It was a fun video for me, I've learned a lot. It've given me some inspiration to make content like this! :)
"I don't know who I need here! A mathematician, I guess, or maybe even a photographer... or someone in between!"
A photogrammetrician then ;)
@@Cime3torik photogrammetrist ;)
@@tomrapley9185 well if you want, I'm not english
A mathematographer then!
alternate title: tom orders drone strikes on his subscribers using images of them
I literally use your exact methods to find info online :) it's such a thrill for me doing these type of hunts, I'm glad I found your channel!
Dude you're insanely talented. It's kinda scary actually that you can pinpoint the exact locations from most photos.