Scott Johnson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it wasn't immediately clear what was what, but this guy spent some time with the images and he realized that
exactly where it was in the city.
And then he pulled up a Google Maps image of the city and positioned it in such a way that it would mirror the perspective that you saw in the screenshots that I had taken and just doing a bunch of kind of reverse engineering of these images.
And then I sent him more images and we sort of worked on it together.
figured out exactly where this was, like literally what street, what corner, what buildings, and we switched the images around and figured out exactly where it was.
And not only where the image was, but where possibly zooming back where it was taken from.
And that's how we deduced
that he was most likely staying in one of two or three buildings that were like two blocks away.
And one of those buildings, it turned out, when we did some more research, was this, it's kind of like, they call them in Europe, they call them apart hotels.
They're sort of like half apartment, half hotel.
There are these residences that are available for
People who are kind of on the move or a business traveler who needs a place to stay for a week or a month or two weeks or whatever, they're furnished, nice apartments.
So they're a step up from just a hotel room.
And you get your own kitchen and your own entrance and there's a concierge service.
And so it's sort of like having your own little mini apartment for a certain amount of time.
And that was perfect, right?
Because this guy was always on the move.
And so an apart hotel, no strings attached, no leases, nothing like that.
You come, you stay for two weeks or a week or a month or whatever.
And also in COVID, it's great, right?