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charles-salvia on March 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Physical location of live stream found using fligh...

> Person sees the dimensions of the rooms via the live stream. Runs over Google maps and finds all buildings with those dimensions.

I don't follow. Google maps would only help if the entire building was like one room. The live stream could be inside some closet in a skyscraper with 57 floors. You'd need a searchable database of the blueprints of every building for this to work.

stagbeetle on March 12, 2017 [–]

If you have a rough area, you can guestimate and T&E with fitting.

As long as the building had a congruent area, it would be one way to go about it.

Think about it like you just finished a jig-saw puzzle, but there's an extra piece and for fun you decide to try and find its twin.

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