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treyd 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUD...

A help with this is the sun is to the left and it seems to be midday, so you could answer the "cardinal direction" question just from the picture with "west ish", which is what it turns out to be.

yassa9 34 days ago [–]

I tried to use the sun info , but honestly I couldn't at all,

thx for the tip

treyd 34 days ago | [–]

It'd probably be hard to do directly/algorithmically, but the shadows from the trees is what I was looking for visually.

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