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
