California hiker rescued thanks to GPS obsessive who tracked his location by matching grainy photo
GPS 'obsessive' saves life of stranded mountain hiker using this picture of his dangling legs: Geek pinpoints cliff location by matching satellite imagery to grainy phone shot Renee Compean, 46, sent a photo of his legs dangling from a cliff to a friend as his phone was about to die saying he was lost and asking for help Los Angeles County sheriff's posted the photo to Twitter asking for help in locating the missing man Online Good Samaritan Ben Kuo pinpointed Compean's position by comparing vegetation and terrain from the shot to satellite imagery Using the satellite-obsessive's GPS coordi...
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