• lengau@midwest.social
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    5 天前

    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.

    • naticus@lemmy.world
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      5 天前

      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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      5 天前

      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)