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We were actually considering doing some object detection in a next run. It feels like there could potentially be some town planning applications like finding the distribution of ru…

There are around 50 results for Crystal Palace, Ill have a look through the logs to see what might have gone wrong Sadly no R Soles though (A shoe shop formerly in Chelsea but now …

Hi Author here, This doesnt really answer your question but hopefully gives some insight into our process. The main bottlenecks were breaking the fisheye-style panoramas into diffe…

Inspired by All Text in NYC ( https://alltext.nyc ) by Yufeng Zhang I thought I would replicate something similar for London. A searchable tool that lets you explore text captured …

It’s perhaps a bit better now, but back when trip-sharing features were first added to third-party mapping and delivery platforms, there was a real tendency to overshare. Many earl…

I made this - https://london publicinsights.uk as well as operate a public records aggregator that has indexed, amongst other things, planning applications. I wonder if it could be…

I have a London one also if anyone is interested! https://london.publicinsights.uk

After recently reading several concerning articles about MAID data, I decided to simulate some device activity (because buying it is too expensive!). I then modelled how these fict…

If anybody found this interesting and would like some further reading, the paper below employed a similar strategy to analyse inauthentic content/disinformation on Twitter. https:/…

There was a very recent "bug" in Search where the site: operator stopped working for a little bit and everybody in the OSINT community had a bit of a meltdown - https://www.digital…

Yep, British for my sins, as a US soldier once described to me, we are your least worst enemy

Every day is a learning day!

If anyone found the above interesting, I wrote a short article mapping plane activity on FlightRadar's 'blocked' list (i.e FlightRadar had agreed to remove the ADBS data from their…

Planning applications in the UK are publicly available and many have architectural drawings/site plans attached with varying degrees of detail. There are millions of applications a…

https://blog.reversepp.com/ for an incredibly niche blog about UK planning application data

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ReversePP is a tool I developed to help with OSINT investigations in the UK by indexing planning application/permission data from local authorities nationally. The link is to the s…

As I understand Slough and West London more broadly are a sweet spot for both connectivity to international fibre cables as they come out of the ground and available electricity at…

There was a similar situation in the UK where 'Spider Crab' was renamed 'Cornish King Crab'. As I understand, much of the 'Spider Crab' was exported to Spain but as this became les…