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Re: Position from a photo
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 11:40 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 11:40 -0800
Take a photo of my GPS???
From: Geoffrey Kolbe <geoffreykolbe@compuserve.com>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:49 AM
Subject: [NavList] Position from a photo
Suppose you wish to covertly record the location of a stash of gold buried in the Sahara desert (say). Could you take a casual looking photo which would convey enough information to make a fix within a few nm of where the photo was taken?
Thanks
Geoffrey