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Seventy2002
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PostFri Apr 16, 2021 8:25 am 
A mystery photo and a geography enthusiast helped locate a missing California hiker who is now safely back home. A "satellite image aficionado" identified the location from a photo the hiker sent before his cellphone died.

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PostFri Apr 16, 2021 10:53 am 
The guy who cracked the case is @ai6yrham on twitter. Here is a thread he posted decribing the steps he went through. https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382371967618097157

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PostSun Apr 18, 2021 8:21 am 
That twitter thread is cool. He has a really creative way of combo-ing up the tools available to get a read on where the missing hiker was. I am taking some notes that can hopefully help me in the 'Name that Lake' thread. cool.gif

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PostSun Apr 18, 2021 9:19 am 
KascadeFlat wrote:
I am taking some notes that can hopefully help me in the 'Name that Lake' thread.
Eliot Higgins' Bellingcat has numerous examples of geolocating photos related to news stories and issues. Lots of tutorials, including "Using the Sun and the Shadows for Geolocation." If we can determine when a photograph was taken we may get a clue by checking the dates of the poster's trip reports.

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PostSun Apr 18, 2021 12:45 pm 
A few years ago we had a fatality involving a fall. No idea where the subject was. It was found that his phone had automatically uploaded the last picture he took to the cloud. We looked at it and the SAR personnel figured out where it was. There was no geo-location in the metadata.

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PostThu Apr 22, 2021 9:09 pm 
I can't locate the thread, but NW Hikers helped SAR locate a lost woman years ago. She didn't leave an itinerary , but sent a friend a picture of herself at a trailhead. The news posted the picture, and someone here identified the trailhead by the background trees and slopes off I-90, and contacted SAR

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