What kind of tools do you generally use? I’m assuming a search engine to identify particular landmarks/stores/etc, and personal knowledge, but what else?
There was a story during the 2016 US election campaign where someone had a webcam pointed at a flag for some of the parties, and some folks managed to find the location by observing the stars and drove there and changed the flag, or something like that.
Edit: link to the story: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...
Literally in one case https://www.quora.com/How-did-4chan-get-the-coordinates-of-a...