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Shoe Bill Nov 6, 2025

I'm working on something really cool, and I can't show the Fediverse. It would make geolocating me a lot easier.

#GeoLocating #OPSEC

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines Oct 4, 2025

@ai6yr

If you like #geolocating you're going to love @rainbolt a Norwegian geolocator who is god.

"Senegal gradient"
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/-cxla3Rt6qc

If this guy does not work for NATO Intel by now, it's a crime.

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Farista Sairuv Jul 28, 2025

“We are #geolocating human rights violations in #Senegal, exposing #Israel’s use of #white #phosphorus in #Gaza, verifying #Russia’s #deliberate and #illegal strikes in #Ukraine and now revealing war crimes in #Iran. But we can’t do this #alone.“

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch May 6, 2025

I wanted to get into #OSM's #OverpassTurbo for #geolocating for ages and when I saw the window in this clip I thought that looks easy enough to finally give it a shot. The text of another post showing a photo of the same room says they're in a hotel in Erfurt, Germany, so after reading some tutorial I came up with this query:

– a generous bbox around Erfurt
– search for streets with 4 lanes
– search for hotels 50m or less from those streets

This gave me a single hit and a quick look at satellite and street view confirmed it's the right place, yay! In a bigger city I'd probably have to add more filters, like for the parking lot and what looks like a supermarket across the street, but for Erfurt this was good enough.

Definitely gonna use Overpass more now, I was a bit scared by the wonky looking syntax at first but it's really quite simple. Just for fun I had some AI generate a query for me as well but it was way more complicated than mine and didn't find anything.

DISCLAIMER: They left the hotel 4th of May so I'm sure it's okay to post the location now. :)

@minkorrekt https://chaos.social/@minkorrekt/114461544332249361

Minkorrekt! (@[email protected])

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch May 3, 2025

While contributing a little to #OpenStreetMap today (which you have to create an account for) I kept seeing edits from another user in my area, making me guess that they probably gotta live in the same hood as me. That made me wonder if you could use #OSM contributions for #OSINT, in particular for #geolocating contributors.

And yes, of course you can!

OSM states in their #privacy policy that email addresses are never ("intentionally") published, however your user name is public and searchable. So I gave it a little test, I picked a random OSM contributor and based on how their edits are clustered on the map I could make a reasonable guess about the neighborhood they likely live in, see screenshot below. Searching their user name on the web I could quickly identify other accounts on Github and social media, as well their OSM contributions, meaning this works in both directions.

So, while obviously I don't want to discourage anyone from contributing to OSM, I do recommend using a user name that's not easily linkable to your accounts on other websites as well as a unique email address, as you never know if there'll be a leak someday.

https://hachyderm.io/@gollyhatch/114444823292027476

Brambleminster Gollyhatch (@[email protected])

Did some outdoor "#OSINT" today checking shop opening hours, vacancy status and other publicly available information in person, and even measured widths of streets and entrance gateways for #OpenStreetMap. It's a really fun pastime, you get to explore your neighborhood a bit more thoroughly, have a nice walk and casually contribute to a great project at the same time. Absolutely recommend it and the #StreetComplete app makes it super easy to become part of #OSM. https://streetcomplete.app/

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