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Friends, after reading this article, you can easily find out where this or that photo was taken, the time and date of shooting, the name of the attraction captured on it, and much more. It's very simple, but many will consider you just a magician! :)

To begin with, I’ll tell you the backstory of what prompted me to write this material... A week ago, my neighbor sent me a couple of photos of beautiful boletus mushrooms via Skype. He wrote that he found mushrooms nearby in the forest, and that I would never guess where exactly.

You can’t imagine what his surprise was when literally five minutes later I told him not only the settlement nearby from that very forest, but also marked with a flag on the Google map the place where exactly he found these mushrooms. :) How did I do this?

The vast majority of modern mobile phone models are equipped with a GPS module. By default, when you take a photo with a smartphone, the technical information about the photo ( EXIF data) in addition to a large set of all sorts of parameters, the geographic coordinates of the shooting location are also included. Analyzing them is not difficult.

One of the best and most visual EXIF ​​data viewing services is pic2map. I’ll say right away that there are quite a lot of services of this kind, but personally, I like this one better both in terms of the method of presenting data and in terms of their accuracy.

To upload a photo for analysis, click on the “Select Photo Files” button. Check the “Keep photos private” option if you do not want your uploaded photos to be indexed by search engines and/or appear in the service gallery. This way you can maintain the confidentiality of your data, which is important for some users.

Based on the EXIF ​​data, the service will mark on the mapGoogleMaps the exact location where the photo was taken, and will also provide additional information:

• Smartphone model
• Date of shooting, day and exact time
• Country, city, address
• GPS latitude and longitude coordinates

Scrolling down the page, you will find a whole list of extended data:

• Shutter speed, ISO, aperture, using flash when taking photographs
• Size, weight, file resolution, etc.

If the picture was taken inside a building, the service will give not only its exact address indicating the street name and house number, but also the postal code (see above in the screenshot)!

As I already mentioned, the above method is applicable if the smartphone or digital camera has a GPS module. Well, how can you find out a place from a photograph if it was taken on a regular digital point-and-shoot camera?

In this case, you can use the function image search fromGoogle or Yandex. However, the method has one limitation: the photo must contain some recognizable place or landmark. For example, I took this image from my personal photo archive:

If the photo shows, for example, a birch tree in a field or a girl with a flower, then this method, of course, will not work - there is simply nothing for the Yandex or Google image analyzer to “catch onto.” In other cases it works well.

Any modern digital camera records additional information about the image in the photo file - EXIF ​​data: the model of the camera that took the photo, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, ISO sensitivity, time and date of shooting, etc.

When you upload a photo to Yandex.Photos, this information is saved. To open it, on the photo viewing page, click the More icon and select Show EXIF.

Why don't some photos have EXIF?

If a photo is taken with a film camera and then scanned, it cannot have EXIF ​​data because it is assigned to the photo when the file is created by a digital camera.

Graphic editors (for example, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom), with certain file saving settings, can delete EXIF ​​data.

Also, some mobile phones do not leave EXIF ​​data.

How can I find out the model of the camera that took the photo and see other photos taken with this camera?

On the photo viewing page, tap the More icon.

Select Show EXIF.

You will be taken to a page with photographs of other authors whose works were taken by this camera model and posted on Yandex.Photos.

How to find out where a photo was taken?

Each photo on Yandex.Photos can be linked to a map. If the photo is already linked to a map, to find out its location, click the On map link, which is located on the photo viewing page.

If the photo is not linked to the map, but you know where it was taken, you can offer the author of the photo your option for placement on the map. To do this, click the link Link to map under the photo.

You will be taken to a map page where you can enter the location of the photo. If the author agrees with your proposal, you will receive a message by mail.

After reading this article, you can easily find out where this or that photo was taken, the time and date of shooting, the name of the attraction captured on it, and much more. It's very simple, but many will consider you just a magician! :)

The vast majority of modern mobile phone models are equipped with a GPS module. By default, when you take a photo with a smartphone, the technical information about the photo ( EXIF data) in addition to a large set of all sorts of parameters, the geographic coordinates of the shooting location are also included. Analyzing them is not difficult.

One of the best and most visual EXIF ​​data viewing services is pic2map. I’ll say right away that there are quite a lot of services of this kind, but personally, I like this one better both in terms of the method of presenting data and in terms of their accuracy.

To upload a photo for analysis, click on the “Select Photo Files” button. Check the “Keep photos private” option if you do not want your uploaded photos to be indexed by search engines and/or appear in the service gallery. This way you can maintain the confidentiality of your data, which is important for some users.

Based on the EXIF ​​data, the service will mark on the mapGoogleMaps the exact location where the photo was taken, and will also provide additional information:

• Smartphone model


• Date of shooting, day and exact time


• Country, city, address


• GPS latitude and longitude coordinates

Scrolling down the page, you will find a whole list of extended data:

• Shutter speed, ISO, aperture, using flash when taking photographs


• Size, weight, file resolution, etc.

If the picture was taken inside a building, the service will give not only its exact address indicating the street name and house number, but also the postal code (see above in the screenshot)!

As already mentioned, the above method is applicable if the smartphone or digital camera has a GPS module. Well, how can you find out a place from a photograph if it was taken on a regular digital point-and-shoot camera?

In this case, you can use the function image search fromGoogle or Yandex. However, the method has one limitation: the photo must contain some recognizable place or landmark. For example, I took this image from my personal photo archive:

If the photo shows, for example, a birch tree in a field or a girl with a flower, then this method, of course, will not work - there is simply nothing for the Yandex or Google image analyzer to “catch onto.” In other cases it works well.

You will learn something new for yourself in this seemingly ordinary activity :)

Finding a person via the Internet is quite simple - now almost everyone has their own page on social networks. You just need to somehow reach it.

There are several ways to do this (I talked about them), but they all rely on searching for information. You must indicate your first name, last name, age, city of residence and other information. But even if you know everything about a person, down to his blood type, this is not a guarantee that he will be found.

It’s a completely different matter if you have a photograph, even a general one. Now there are services that can recognize faces and search for the pages of their owners.

Preparing the photo

First you need to crop the photo. Thus, we will reduce its computer size (usually it is large) and remove all unnecessary things. This is especially true if the photo is a group one.

1 . Open Start - All Programs - Accessories - Paint

2. Open the photo in this program (you can simply drag it inside the window).

3. Select the “Select” tool at the top and circle the desired person.

4 . Click the “Crop” button.

Search on VKontakte (findface.ru)

FindFace (findface.ru) is a special service for searching for people on the VKontakte social network. But to use it, you need to have a VK page.

You can get it for free in just a minute - to do this, go to the website vk.com and register.

To search through FindFace, follow the link and click on the “find identical” button.

The service will ask you to allow access to your VK page, to which we agree.

Upload the desired photo (you can simply drag it inside the window).

And we wait for the end of the search procedure.

That's all - all that remains is to find your lost one in the list :)

Search the entire Internet

Search by image. There are two special services for this: one from Google (images.google.com), the other from Yandex (images.yandex.ru). They are very easy to use: you just need to drag the photo into the search bar.

Google Image Search

Search by image Yandex

The result will appear immediately. First, the same picture will be shown, but in other sizes (if available on the Internet), a little lower - similar photographs, and even lower - the Internet pages on which they are posted.

TinEye (tineye.com). Popular foreign image search service.

Everything is exactly the same here: drag a picture from your computer into the search bar, and immediately get the result.

Browser extensions

Extensions or add-ons are small gadgets that are added to an Internet program and perform certain tasks in it. For example, there are extensions for downloading videos from Youtube or music from Contact. There are also such programs for searching by photos.

Almost every browser has its own collection of various add-ons. But most of them are in Google Chrome. In other programs, there are literally one or two extensions for our purposes, and even then they do not work quite as they should. Therefore, I will show how to work with add-ons only using the example of Chrome.

Where to find and how to install the extension

1 . Click on the button at the top right and select Additional tools - Extensions.

2. We go down to the very bottom of the page (scroll with the wheel on the mouse) and click on “More extensions”.

3. Type keywords in the top search bar and press Enter. The found extensions and applications appear. Install what you need (you can delete it later at any time).

If you install an application, it is added to an empty tab, in the Services item. That is, to find it later, you need to open a new browser tab and go to “Services” (top left).

Extensions are installed a little differently - they are added immediately after the address bar.

HashPhotos is a small utility that makes dull geotags dance to our tune. Its task is to show where this or that photo from your photo feed was taken.

HashPhotos is a small utility that makes dull geotags dance to our tune. Its task is to show where this or that photo from your photo feed was taken. And believe me, there are more benefits from this function than it seems at first glance.

Imagine that you arrived in an unfamiliar city and checked into a hotel. To find it in the evening, you need to find out the address, write it down somewhere in your iPhone, or add a bookmark to Maps. The same should be done with the train station, museums, the nearest metro station, etc.

Open the photo you want and swipe up to see the exact location on the map

HashPhotos greatly simplifies this routine. You simply take a photo of the object you want (hotel, cafe) with a standard camera and continue your walk. If you need to remember where a certain place is, just select the corresponding photo in HashPhotos, and you will immediately see it on the map along with the date and exact coordinates.

With a couple of clicks, the whole thing can be “sent” to regular Maps to create a route, or copy the coordinates to the clipboard.

Press the “share” key to open the shooting coordinates in Google Maps and get directions to them