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Next, I would like to show you a very powerful map that could help you to geo locate pictures easily.

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And this is a customized map that were made by Bellingcat, and OpenStreetMap is a free open source

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map that could be used by anyone.

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And the coolest thing about this map is that you can customize all, tell the map the features that

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you would like to find in a specific area, which I will show you in a moment.

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So the first thing you want to do is to go to the link that you will find in the resources of this lecture,

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which is the Bellingcat OpenStreetMap search.

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And then you want to sign in with your Google account.

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And after you sign in, you will be redirected to this page.

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And right here you can select what features you would like to find in a specific area.

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For example, we can say that we are looking for a public transport stop, as well as a church and a

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hospital in the same area.

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So to show you an example, let me scroll down a little bit.

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Here we have the maximum distance between features.

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So if we have specified, for example, that there is a public transport stop in the picture and near

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this public transport stop, there is, for example, a church, then we can drag this and drop it in

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here.

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And then the maximum distance between these two features has to be 100.

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Now of course we can make it 500m, but I think that 100 is enough.

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Another important thing that you want to do is to specify where you want to search.

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For example, in this case I would like to search for coal in Germany.

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So this is colon which is a wonderful city in Germany.

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And then I'm going to scroll down.

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I can specify what view I would like to see.

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For example, I can click on Google to see a Google View or Terrain or satellite.

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Now in my case I like to use OSM.

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And now I'm going to scroll up and remove all of these features.

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And now we are going to do a practical example.

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Our goal is going to be to Identify where this photo has been taken.

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So this is a screenshot that I have taken from Google Maps.

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And what we are going to do is to identify all the features that we can find on this picture, and then

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add these features to the billing card.

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Awesome.

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So the first thing we can identify is the type of buildings.

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Each country has a different type of buildings.

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So the buildings that you are going to find in Germany are different than the buildings that you are

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going to find in France or Greece.

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So knowing how the buildings look like in a certain country will help a lot to identify the country.

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The second thing we can notice is the railway.

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So here we can see a tram and it seems to be like a stop station, because if we zoomed in, we can

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see here that there are two chairs, and here we can see people that are waiting or buying tickets from

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this machine.

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So it's probably a train stop station.

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Now let's zoom back.

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The last thing we can identify is a house number which is 44, which we can also add to the OpenStreetMap

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to identify a house with the number 44.

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That is, against a train or metro stop station.

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Here we can see the map.

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So we have specified the area that we are searching in Köln.

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And then I'm going to scroll up.

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And from here you can specify a custom feature.

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For example, I can say that I'm searching for a building, for a highway for a house number and scroll

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down more to find more information.

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Now I always like to use this page, which I will put its link in the resources of this lecture and

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if you scroll down, you will see all the features that you can use along with a picture.

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For example, let me say house number like this and this will give me a description of this feature

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or this key along with a photo and how this looks like, which I think is amazing.

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So we are going to use this key.

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Let me come back to the map and say house number.

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And the House number that we were able to find on the picture was 44.

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So I'm going to say equal and then 44, and then I'm going to add this custom feature.

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And then I'm going to add another OSM key which is going to be railway like this.

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Because we have seen a railway in here and the railway is near the building and the value is going to

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be a tram stop.

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And then I'm going to click on add and then scroll down and then click on search.

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And as you can see here are all the buildings with the house number 44 that are beside the railways.

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So I'm going to scroll down.

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And here we can see the house number 44.

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But the railways are right here and it has to be very close to the railways.

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So I'm going to scroll down a little bit.

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And this seems to be the one that we are looking for because the house is on the right side and the

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railways are on the opposite side like here.

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So I'm going to click on this one.

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And this will open Google Maps.

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And then I'm going to scroll down and then drag this little person to the map.

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And here is the railway.

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And as you can see here is the picture that we have searched for.

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So we can see the house number and we can see the tram stop station.

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Now I highly recommend that you play with this map because it's going to help you a lot to find or geo

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locate pictures.

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In addition to that, I would like to show you an article that were made by Bellingcat on how to use

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this map, so you can scroll down and watch the videos and have a look at the examples that they have

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demonstrated.

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So this is how you can geo locate a picture just by identifying features on a certain picture.

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So you might be able to find a bus station, railway house number, building color, roof color, etc.

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and all of these information could be used to geo locate this picture.