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Openstreetmaps let's you write some insanely precise queries. There's a company around that had as a plan to team up with governments to pinpoint mass shooters when they were streaming (as a usage case).
So say in the video it was clear they were in X city and they see things in the video like McDonald's, Starbucks, fenced in playgrounds, churches, what have you you can give the query a bounding box with all that info and very quickly narrow down where the video could be taken.
I think there was also some people who would pinpoint images from mountain outlines as a game. Kind of like geoguessr on steroids.