9 stories tagged geolocation, newest first.
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
507 points by yassa9 | 82 comments
A writeup for the gralhix004 OSINT challenge describing how the author geolocated an islet photo using geometric analysis and CUDA GPU search.
695 points by hn_acker | 176 comments
Lawfare article by Tom Uren, from the Seriously Risky Business newsletter, arguing that the sale of precise geolocation data should be banned.
399 points by edent | 309 comments
Terence Eden blog post explaining how Android now strips location metadata from photos shared via the web, breaking geotagging for sites like OpenBenches.
609 points by MrDresden | 492 comments
Le Monde article reporting it tracked the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in real time via a sailor's public Strava fitness app activity.
414 points by bko | 285 comments
Blog post by Sam Patterson comparing OpenAI's o3 model against a master-level GeoGuessr player, including rounds with fake EXIF data and without search.
919 points by simonw | 405 comments
Simon Willison blog post describing how OpenAI's o3 model guesses where a photo was taken, testing it on a photo from El Granada, California.
413 points by belter | 138 comments
arXiv paper showing how Apple's Wi-Fi-based positioning system can be abused to geolocate over 2 billion BSSIDs worldwide and track device movements.
348 points by udev4096 | 83 comments
NearbyWiki is an interactive map web app that shows Wikipedia-listed places near a chosen location.