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Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by jrochkind1 »

overpass turbo is a tool I didn't know about, which does some of the heavy lifting here -- and could do even more in other cases, his example of "skate park within 100 meters of a dog park" makes me think. i didn't actually realize there were public databases available with that kind of granularity, coverage, and coding.

The ability to have ChatGTP generate the query is actually pretty huge.

I wonder how long until there are AI tools where you can just say things like "give me skate parks within 100 meters of dog parks in Boulder CO", and it will identify the tool to use and generate the query and execute the query and just give you the answers.

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by sharkweek »

ThisIsMyAltFace wrote: post #38

I always wonder if any of the US intel agencies have reached out to Rainbolt for consulting or recruitment.

It’s a meme now on his channel that he works for the CIA given his recent travels et al.

He made a funny video about taking the “test” on the CIA’s website which was an online game for kids (a really weird thing to exist when I stop and think about it).

https://youtu.be/8aanIIDgm5Q

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by pests »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #7

Checking on numberplates and bin logos was hardly groundbreaking, as those are exactly where I would have started too. However, I had never heard of Overpass Turbo [0]. Learning of its existence was the only valuable take from this video for me, but well worth it. [0] https://overpass-turbo.eu/

This comment has no valuable take.

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by jokoon »

Well, this was the easy version, since there were a lot of clues.

I really think those tools should be banned, they're such an immense security problem.

I know those can be useful, and I understand that information should be free, but they can still do quite a good amount of harm.

Lesson: ALWAYS blur anything that could identify a street or anything when you post a picture online.

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by praptak »

egman_ekki wrote: post #29
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #14

I wonder how hard it would be to develop/train a machine learning method that ingests a photo of anywhere outside and maps it to corresponding satellite/aerial imagery. We are of course very good at object recognition from still images. We are reasonably good at inferring depth from a single still image (monocular depth estimation [0-2]). Combining these, we should be reasonably good at determining relative positioni…

I think Google Maps is doing something similar where it sometimes asks you to take photos/a video of the street you’re walking on to detrmine your location more precisely (I think it happens when the GPS is not giving good enough precision).

There's a separate augmented reality mode which a) captures frames in real time to pinpoint your position and b) displays the video stream with overlaid 3D markings which show you the way.

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by Drew_ »

egman_ekki wrote: post #29
MontyCarloHall wrote: post #14

I wonder how hard it would be to develop/train a machine learning method that ingests a photo of anywhere outside and maps it to corresponding satellite/aerial imagery. We are of course very good at object recognition from still images. We are reasonably good at inferring depth from a single still image (monocular depth estimation [0-2]). Combining these, we should be reasonably good at determining relative positioni…

I think Google Maps is doing something similar where it sometimes asks you to take photos/a video of the street you’re walking on to detrmine your location more precisely (I think it happens when the GPS is not giving good enough precision).

I _think_ this is more to do with calibrating the compass than precise location

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by dclowd9901 »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #7

Checking on numberplates and bin logos was hardly groundbreaking, as those are exactly where I would have started too. However, I had never heard of Overpass Turbo [0]. Learning of its existence was the only valuable take from this video for me, but well worth it. [0] https://overpass-turbo.eu/

One of these I had seen had almost no hints, but it did have a church that was fairly close to a kfc and a dollar general or something. It also kind of “looked” like the southeast, so the dude did a general query on places where those three types of structures inhabited the same general area. It came back with about 7 or 8 results in the entire southeast which could then be manually checked so it seemed like being able to query the map did the big lifting there.

Re: How to find a street in 2 minutes [video]

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Post by wds »

jokoon wrote: post #46

Well, this was the easy version, since there were a lot of clues. I really think those tools should be banned, they're such an immense security problem. I know those can be useful, and I understand that information should be free, but they can still do quite a good amount of harm. Lesson: ALWAYS blur anything that could identify a street or anything when you post a picture online.

The tool is banned.

Legitimate users no longer have access to it, Bad actors continue to use the software on their own hardware anyways.

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