In this video, we're taking a look at geolocation, specifically geo locations on a photo.
Now, Wickham's files files will tend to have what's called metadata, basically information about that
particular file.
It doesn't matter if you're using say a word document, a photo, MP, three, file, video file, whatnot,
it's going to have some level of metadata.
Now, with the metadata, when it comes to photos, we might be able to pull information such as the
type of camera was used to take the photo, the time and data was used to take the photo.
And if we're really lucky, we might be able to pull a geo location.
Now the geo location is pretty cool because it will actually give you the latitude and longitude of
where that photo was taken.
Now, if we're tracking someone, we're looking forward to seeing someone on the run, someone that's
a missing person.
And they they take a photo.
We might be able to be able to feed that photo and take a look at the geo location where that photo
was taken and when in order to help us find that person.
Now there are some caveats since a lot of times you're not a lot of photos won't have geolocation on
there.
Things like smartphones will typically have it turned off by default.
However, if we're lucky, the digital camera, they took it with the cell phone they took it with will
hopefully have the geo location turned on.
So again, if they take a photo with their geo location on, it will give us a location on a map and
latitude longitude of where that photo was taken.
And there's also this could also be spoofed, meaning that you can feed false geo locations into images.
So it's always good to double check what you find, whether it's geolocation photos or any other information
you find.
So in this case, if I found a photo and I found a new location, I would probably double check, reverse
image, maybe pull up a Google map elsewhere and see if that actually does match up.
So let's take a look at how this works.
I'm over a geo imager, geo imgur.com, and I'm going to click on this Blue Start Now button.
Now on here, we can see this map here on this window pane and we can see this blue box here.
It says drop photos here or clicked upload.
I'm going to click on here to upload I'm going to upload this photo here so we could see the photo was
uploaded.
We could also see it found a geotag and it's right here.
So I'm just going to click on control.
I'm going to scroll my mouse wheel in and we're going to kind of zoom in here and we can see the location
of where it's at.
So that in itself is pretty cool.
But what we could do is since this is Google Maps, I could take a little person here and we could see
if they actually did a street view.
So if I drag and drop the person here, I could see the street view.
I could just kind of move the camera around here and I could see kind of around the area that they were
at.
And I could see the bridge right there of where where this photo was taken.
So that's really cool.
It's it's really handy finding that geolocation.
And again, I could see the latitude and longitude here.
And again, if if you have photos, look at the metadata, do a reverse image search and well, might
as well throw it into a tool like geo imager and see if it has a geo location attached to it.
So again, just a lot of useful tools when it comes to photos.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you next video.