ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1941258/chatgpt-models-are-surprisingly-good-at-geoguessing
#OSINT #GEOINT

DeepFindMe free online tools

- username search
- geolocation by photo
- metadata extractor
- subdomains/WHOIS/DNS lookup

and more.

https://www.deepfind.me/tools

GIthub repo: https://github.com/Buddhsen-tripathi/DeepFindMe

Creator x.com/_TripathiJi

ICELAND OSINT

- live cams
- news monitoring
- Game of Thrones locations
- traffic info
- maps

and more.

https://start.me/p/RM4Xae/iceland

Contributor Shawn Kammerdiener

Tip by x.com/wdd_adk

Vital Maxar satellite imagery restores critical access to Ukraine.

US Maxar Technologies restored Ukrainian access to the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (GEGD) satellite imagery program, multiple users confirmed to Militarnyi on 12 March.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250312-vital-maxar-satellite-imagery-restores-critical-access-to-ukraine?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

I feel as if European companies should rally around Ukraine intelligence needs for geoint, osint etc.

Anything that could help monitor, map, find, evaluate Russian logistics, troop movement etc. Surely there are at least some European companies with appropriate level of satellite imagery access and "tooling"?

Combined with analytical capabilities? Surely this is not only an American capability?

The Plonk It Guide to GeoGuessr

A very detailed guide to identifying images from Google Maps for 133 countries (+ cities and regions in each). Car license plates, power lines, soils, road surface and many other details.

https://www.plonkit.net/guide

Tip by twitter.com/trbrtc

One of the most detailed street panorama services is Kakao Maps. It shows even the narrowest forest paths.

Unfortunately, only for South Korea

map.kakao.com

The weather was crap the other day, so instead of being productive, I spent way too much time on a fun challenge #mapping the route of a YouTube #motorcycle travel video.

So here is a thread analysing the video and explaining how I mapped the route from clues in the video.

The YouTube algorithm threw an unknown channel video at me, with a great looking thumbnail, so I clicked. The ride indeed was awesome, so I wanted to know where they were riding for future reference.

GpxExpeditor 3D Sattelite View

Worldwide map with 3D and high quality satellite images. For street views from 3-20 metres it is much better than Google Maps.

gpxeditor.co.uk/map

Tip by twitter.com/OSINT_Community twitter.com/AccessOSINT

Data Portals

Search by 599 portals around the world. Goverment data, professional registries, courts records, cadastral maps and more.

https://dataportals.org/search

Nuclei Disaster Worldwide Map

- power reactor locations
- known locations of nuclear weapons
- states with nuclear weapons
- declassified US nuclear targets

nucleardisastermap.com

Catalogue of research databases

180+ countries.
Business, intellectual property and land registries, government databases, national media and more.

id.occrp.org/databases/

Creator twitter.com/OCCRP

IUU Vessels List

Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing vessel list.

Search detailed vessels profiles by current or historic name, callsign, owner, registration number.

https://www.iuu-vessels.org/Home/Search

ShipSpotting

- 3M+ ships, inland vessels and lighthouses(!) photos
- advanced search with a lot of filters
- real time tracking map

and much more.

shipspotting.com

OPENSKY

Open (free) air traffic data for research:
- live data
- historical data
- tracking 264K+ aircrafts
- scientific datasets
- #Python library https://github.com/open-aviation/pyopensky

opensky-network.org

World of orienteering maps collection

50000+ detailed topographic maps of various terrains around the world.

A source of a huge amount of additional information not found on Google Maps (including historical).

omaps.worldofo.com/gmaps.php

Bellingcat Globetrotters Writeups

Detailed descriptions of Bellingcat challenges (challenge.bellingcat.com) solutions from twitter.com/shibasec:

#1 — A Sticky Situation
#2 — Flamin-Go Find It!
#3 — Pulling Focus
#4 — The Rider's View
#5 — Lost in the Fog

https://medium.com/@shibaosint/bellingcat-challenges-bellingcat-globetrotters-e4e4b6558809

Find That Spot

A tool that allows to search the map for objects that match a text description.

Based on OverPass Turbo, but does not require knowledge of query language, works faster and with large areas.

findthatspot.io

OSINT Tools Armenia

Open Data portals
Legal Entities
Maps
Vehicles
People
Public procurement

https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Armenia

Contributor twitter.com/paulpogoda

OpenTrailView

A large collection of tens of thousands of panoramas of streets (and forests and fields) in different countries.

Mostly Europe and a lot of outdated. But there are many places where Street View has not reached.

opentrailview.org