• lengau
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    6 days ago

    Someone else with an Illinois licence could probably use that to estimate how long their address that ends with “e Ave” is and narrow it down to fewer than 8 east-west streets in this town of around 12,000.

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      6 days ago

      Lol this whole thread is making want to find out all the encoding of my license too, but I don’t even want to ask for help because you’ll all somehow figure out my mother’s hometown, my favorite pizza shop, and the location where I had sex by myself for the first time.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Reminds me I just learned about this: overpass-turbo.eu

      GeoGuessrs use it to run queries on OpenStreetMap (even if a chatbot has to write those queries first).

      Worked for something like “show me all houses with the house number 529 in this ZIP Code“. Oh probably saw that here (video)