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Tools and tips round up: A new way to use OpenStreetMap and tools for Wikipedia, Telegram and more

Plus: guides for investigative journalism and for using OSINT for Bluesky.

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Craig Silverman
December 30, 2024

Tools

📍 SPOT is a geospatial search tool for OpenStreetMap from DW Innovation. It’s similar to Bellingcat’s OpenStreetMap search tool, except it allows you to submit a natural language prompt for a specific location type. For example, “Show me all shopping malls near a traffic light with a park within 300 meters in Nairobi.” Learn more in SPOT’s tutorial section.

📍 highlighted a tool called Recruitryte that offers a couple of interesting free options. (You need to register.) It has a free tool that generates keywords and boolean strings to help you search for relevant profiles across LinkedIn, GitHub, and elsewhere. That’s useful for finding potential sources. Recruitryte also gives you 50 free credits to extract emails from LinkedIn profiles.

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