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The Navigation Foundation conducted an exercise along these lines in 1989 in
an effort to prove that Robert E. Peary did, in fact, reach the north pole.
It has been a very long time since I read the subsequent report ("Robert E.
Peary at the North Pole") but among other things, they analyzed a lot of old
photos taken by Peary. At 200 pages, the report is quite detailed although I
confess that the methodogies and science behind the photographic analysis
were beyond my understanding.  Even at that, the report was panned in some
circles; primarily because of the quality of the photos and the perceived
difficulty in deriving any useful celestial information from them. But that
is the nature of the Peary vs. Anti-Peary camps. It is an old feud that will
never end.

Alas, the Navigation Foundation is no longer and I do not know how many
copies of the report that they produced. I still have mine.

Robert




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From: "Geoffrey Kolbe" 
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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:30 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Position from a photo


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>>My sense of the original question was that this should be a photo that
>>looks like a common vacation pic with no "obvious" intentions of providing
>>position data. So no GPS tagging... Even a time stamp is probably out.
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>>-FER
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> That was the intent Frank.
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> Suppose the photo was taken during WWII, so not even digital.
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> Geoffrey
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