🇱🇾 Unidentified gunmen stormed a security compound in Surman, west of #Tripoli earlier this morning, targeting the Internal Security (intelligence) service unit, local police station, and passport investigations unit. One police deputy was killed, and a cruiser destroyed.
• Early signs suggest reactivation of dormant ISIS cells amid growing instability, clashes, and political turmoil in GNU-controlled western #Libya.
→#Geolocation:
🗺️ Coordinates: 32.755397,12.574952
>LEAKLIV:/
> IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, people living abroad, countries with multiple official languages. This isn’t cleverness, it gives outright annoyance.
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/
And that's like 99.99% of all websites with the language selector...
#language #geolocation #localization #translation #ux #webdev #webdevelopment
Taken just a few minutes ago. Where?
CW guesses or answers. Be as precise as possible.
Wish this feature was added. But alas, the issue is almost 9 years old.
It would also be a really cool step into the direction of a Swarm/Foursquare-like check-in app for the Fediverse.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/281
#Mastodon #Geolocation #Swarm #Foursquare #FediFeature
This CBC article (a free ad for a company trying to make location information closed and proprietary) contains exactly one useful bit of information, in a quote from a U Waterloo prof:
"I'm also wondering why the 911 operator couldn't have just pinged their phone and then relayed the [latitude and longitude] to police?" he also said in an email to CBC News.
post- #Dobbs legal landscape…opened the door for #lawenforcement to exploit virtually any form of data—license plates, phone records, #geolocation data—to pursue individuals across state lines…more than 1,800 agencies have deployed ALPRs, but at least 4,000 agencies are able to run searches through some agencies in Flock's network…share the data freely with other agencies across the country, with little oversight, restriction, or even standards for accessing data.
India Post launches DIGIPIN – a 10-character digital address code for accurate geolocation, improving deliveries and emergency services, especially in remote areas. Generate yours at https://dac.indiapost.gov.in.
#DIGIPIN #IndiaPost #DigitalAddress #SmartDelivery #EcommerceIndia #Geolocation #Logistics #EmergencyServices #RuralIndia #DigitalIndia #Sakshamagarwal
I guess this is what happens when Google Maps uses adjacent tiles taken at very different times of the year, although I cannot say I have ever noticed it before.
When AI Can Geolocate a Photo, Is There Any Hope for Vacation Privacy? https://petapixel.com/2025/06/12/when-ai-can-geolocate-a-photo-is-there-any-hope-for-vacation-privacy/ #geolocation #Technology #geolocate #Culture #Opinion #chatgpt #opinion #openai #vox #ai #o3
Nobody even tried?
This is a super easy geolocation. (Look at the unique architecture and the storefront advertising.)
You were at....
>Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia.
41.3912420, 2.1654850
beaconDB - public domain wireless #geolocation database - * ethically sourced: opt-in only data collection
* privacy friendly: published information is obfuscated to protect transmitters and contributors
* abuse resistant: updating existing data requires information only available in physical range of a beacon
https://beacondb.net/
#eos #privacy #android
via https://magicfab.ca/liens
Yes, this is an actual #FridayQuiz!
Can you provide the exact #geolocation?
🗣️ Reply to all to collaborate
✉️ Reply just to me with an answer
📄 Back up your answer with proof
#osint #quiztime
Bellingcat tested LLMs for Geolocation.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2025/06/06/have-llms-finally-mastered-geolocation/
#AI #Bellingcat #LLM #geolocation
@cvvhrn Somewhere around 56.619482,-4.9308398 Helpfully labeled "Skyfall scene" in the Google Maps. Looks like the bikepacking route is about one loch over. #geolocation
Kennt jemand einen #PositionsTracker der ohne Google und Apple einsetzbar ist?
Am besten mit #FOSS auf dem Gerät?
Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city
https://austinhenley.com/blog/coord2state.html
#HackerNews #Mapping #Latitude #Longitude #Country #State #City #Geolocation
Geolocation case solved on the @Bellingcat Discord 🕵️♂️🌍
A video claimed to show wind turbines arriving in La Guajira, Colombia — but it was actually filmed in Oklahoma, USA.
The fact-check is now live on Colombiacheck:
🔗 https://colombiacheck.com/chequeos/este-video-de-agradecimiento-petro-por-llegada-de-turbinas-eolicas-la-guajira-no-es-en
Blog post about it by me:
📝
https://moltenbit.net/posts/combating-misinformation-through-geolocation/
🌦️🔍 This groundbreaking #OSINT #tool lets you play detective with #weather widget screenshots—because who doesn't want to geolocate a picture of a cloudy day? 😆 It's like Pokémon Go, but for weather nerds! 🌩️
https://github.com/elliott-diy/Weather2Geo #Geolocation #CloudyDay #WeatherNerds #HackerNews #ngated
