Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: How to find out where a picture was taken?

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How to find out where a picture was taken? May 10th 2012, 11:20 Say you are exploring interesting places on the Internet and come across a gorgeous destination that you would like to visit sometime in future. The only problem is that the web photograph carries no text caption and you therefore have no clue of the location where that picture was possible taken. Where was a picture taken? Sometimes the EXIF data embedded in an image file can help you determine the location but there’s another alternative that is more likely to work. You probably know that Google offers Similar Image search to help discover images that are visually similar to your source image. The same feature of Google Images can sometimes help you uncover the location of a photograph as well. Here's how: Go to images.google.com and drag* any image – either from your desktop or another web page – to the search box (see video for a quick demo). If that photograph is of some popular destination, Google will mention the possible location of that image above the search results (see screenshot). In all other cases, you will at least know the original source of that image and that could offer enough hints for you to guess the actual location on your own. [*] IE may not support drag and drop but in that case, you can click the "camera icon" in the Google search box to manually upload a picture to Google Images for analysis. Video Demo – Finding a Photograph’s location http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWIBY-AlVrw This story, How to find out where a picture was taken?, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 10/05/2012 under Images, Location, Internet. Related posts: Find Videos that were Recorded at a Particular Location Stop the Google Camera Van From Clicking a Picture of Your House Find the Latitude and Longitude of your Home with Google Maps Display your Profile Picture in Google Search Results Find Pictures on other Photo Sharing and Blogging Sites via Google Images Media files: photograph_location-50x50.jpg (image/png)

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