We have no idea where many photographs were taken. Also, there are many old paintings with poor titles such as "Landscape at Dawn/Sunset".

By scanning images with definable features (e.g. two hills, river in the foreground, somewhere in France), it shouldn't be that hard to exhaustively search the SRTM data for possible location matches- especially if individuals could enrich the scanned data by providing height or distance estimates?

Funny how this should happen so recently after Obama and McCain publically agreed that the plan to replace the aging Marine One fleet should be cancelled...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/us/politics/24chopper.html

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