Quiztime - 22nd March 2022 - Geolocation Tuscany
When it comes to adult pleasures, most people think of alcohol at the end of the workday. I am over 20 years old and my favorite drink is grape juice lol. I am more interested in wine than alcohol. Every day I want to graduate from college and get a job as soon as possible.
Oops, sorry. I'll stop with the personal stuff and get to work on geolocation.
Geolocation is part of verification! @quiztime you can hone your skills in #OSINT.
— Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia) 2022年3月21日
Here is your challenge #MondayQuiz:
👉🏼 What is the name of the country & region the photo was taken?
Bonus: Where exactly?
📮reply just to me with an answer
🤝 reply to all for collaboration pic.twitter.com/t2I5ooDltY
Again, it's an OSINT quiz by Julia.
We will locate the country and its region, with additional details.
It's lush green nature as far as the eye can see.
It's going to be hard to find it again.
Information gathering
First, let's organize the information that can be read from the photos and formulate a hypothesis.
Blue rectangle: 3 trees
Red rectangle: possibly poolside
Yellow rectangle: field
However, this is vague, so I first tried to find out which country it is.
Searching for images with Google Lens, I found that the Tuscany region of Italy was the most likely location.
Tuscany is located in central Italy, has many mountains, and is famous for being Italy's largest producer of red wine. According to the information that could be read from the image, the photographer was shooting at a high elevation, and there was no doubt that the vineyards seen in the foreground, stretching from the center to the right, were vineyards.
Incidentally, there is a lot of information on the Tuscany region in the image search, and I tried looking for other regions but could not find any, so I will proceed here on the assumption that the research is limited to the Tuscany region only.
Information Analysis
The information to look for now is a location in Tuscany, with vineyards, three trees, and a poolside in sight, and at a high elevation.
Also, the poolside means it is in the mountains and probably near a hotel.
Search Operator: tuscany hotels with pools + near Vineyard
The trick to a successful search in OSINT is to verbalize the information in the image. In many cases, putting the information into words has reduced the number of searches by hundreds of thousands.
After some random searching, I decided to look for a hotel on a certain travel site. If I could find it separately, I would be able to find it on another site. I searched on travelmyth.com. There were close to 400 listings, so I narrowed my search to hotels with vineyards and outdoor pools (with brown floors) in front of them, and eliminated all others.
There were close to 400 entries, so I eliminated all but those with vineyards in front of them, outdoor poolside (with brown floors), and high elevation.
I had trouble during the search process, but it was very time consuming because there were many very similar hotels and many vineyards around.
The floor, which was slightly lower than the hotel, was brown, and the trees and fence behind the poolside and the vineyard in front of us were a perfect match.
