Upload a photo and find out where it was taken. If the file still has GPS data you get exact coordinates; if not, the AI looks for a landmark or readable sign in the picture — and says so when it can't find one.
Reads the GPS tag if the file still has one, then looks at landmarks and any text in the picture. JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10MB.
Choose a JPG, PNG or WebP from your device, or paste an image URL. Use the original file if you have it — screenshots and social media copies lose their GPS data.
First we look for GPS coordinates in the EXIF data. If there are none, the image is checked against a landmark database and read for text such as street names and signs.
You get the place name, country, coordinates and a map, plus a note on where the answer came from — GPS, a landmark match, or text read from the picture.
A photo can be placed three ways, and they are not equally reliable. We try them in this order and stop at the first one that gives a confident answer:
What we deliberately do not do is guess from architectural style or vegetation alone. On unfamiliar street photos, guesses like that were right about one time in five in our testing, so the tool throws them away and tells you it couldn't place the photo instead.
We tested the tool on 50 ordinary street photos from 50 cities, with the GPS data stripped and the files renamed, three times over. It answered 22 times out of 150. Of those answers, 18 were within 25 km of where the photo was taken, and none was more than 750 km off — the worst miss was 132 km.
So on an anonymous street photo it usually says nothing, but when it does give an answer it is very likely to be right. Famous landmarks and photos with GPS data do much better. The full test, including the photos it got wrong, is on our methodology page.
Upload it here. If the original file still has GPS data, you get exact coordinates immediately. If not, the AI checks the picture for a known landmark or readable text such as a street sign, and shows the place on a map when it finds one.
Yes, if the picture shows a recognizable landmark or legible text like a street or shop name. Without either, it will usually tell you it can't place the photo — that is on purpose, because guesses from style alone were wrong too often in our tests.
Screenshots never contain the original photo's GPS data, and most social and messaging apps strip it when the photo is sent. Ask for the original file, or rely on the landmark and text checks.
The tool can only use what is in the picture. Please only use it on photos you have a legitimate reason to check — your own, public news images, or travel photos — and never to track down a private person.
Photos are sent to Google Cloud Vision (landmark recognition) and Cloudflare Workers AI (text and structure reading) for analysis and are not used to train models. Originals are deleted within a reasonable time after processing — see our privacy policy for details.
Yes. It is free to use, with no account and nothing to install.