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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a location using a camera l... by timonoko on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:53PM (#31995182)
Forgot the bloody atmospheric distortion. But no worries, Astropy has estimate for that too, know as "parallax correction".
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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a location using a camera l... by timonoko on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:38AM (#31997537)
My Bad. "Parallax Correction" was for the camera's altitude (or photographers height). The atmospheric correction was something else.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a location using a camera l... by timonoko on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:11AM (#31997753)
BTW. In urban environment there are plenty of horizontal lines pointing to the vanishing point. Thus it is totally possible to make a camera app, which calculates your position from the sun alone. This might make total sense in Urban Warfare, when the enemy has blocked GPS signals.
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