Tried to find the original of “The Netherlands after a huge western storm” map
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/03
TL;DR: the picture is at the bottom; I think it is the original.
A few years ago, slightly before a big storm hit The Netherlands ([WayBack] Storm Ciara – Wikipedia), I bumped into a similar “after storm map” that had shifted cities towards the east emphasising in a funny way the expected strength of the storm.
They appeared on both Facebook and Twitter:
The second image was larger, but did not show text “Belgium” nor the upper islands from the first image. Furthermore the first image had a “@goedverhaallekkerkort” bookmark, which – on social media – usually is a sign the image is not original.
So I had to go and find an image based on the first (as it had the most data) but with larger dimensions than the second.
Using “Image Search” for the image [Archive.is] atlas – Google Search and [Archive.is] storm kaart nederland – Google Search revealed many relatively small images, but also one larger image in the 20200209 post [WayBack] Oeps zo is de kaart morgen als de storm is gaan liggen😂😂😂 via [Archive.is] Google Image Result for https://stoprokenblog.nl/blog_img/w/74498-WbfGk-original.jpeg and 20180119 post [WayBack] Gewoon een verzameling hilarische foto’s #921 – VK Magazine.
I think the final one is the original: it is sharper, and has all the elements mentioned above.
Is this now the famous OSINT? Is it the original one?
–jeroen
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