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Who operates this website
The website locateimages.com and the LocateImages tool are operated by a duly incorporated company. Its identification details (company name, registration and tax details, and registered address) are provided to anyone with a legitimate interest who asks through the contact form.
Contact
For anything about the website, the tool or your data, write to me through the contact form. I answer by e-mail.
What this website is
This website offers LocateImages, a free tool that uses artificial intelligence to estimate where a photo was probably taken. Its results are estimates, never confirmations. The terms of use are in the terms, and the processing of personal data in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.
Content generated with AI
The results of the tool (the area, the name of the place, the summary and the clues) are generated by artificial intelligence systems: Claude, by Anthropic, and GeoCLIP. They are always presented as a probable location, not a confirmed one, and may contain errors.
Intellectual property
The design, texts and code of this website belong to LocateImages or are used under licence. You may share links to any page freely; please do not copy the website or the tool without permission.
Trademarks
The names of companies, products and services that appear on this website (such as Anthropic, Claude, OpenStreetMap, OpenFreeMap, Google Maps or GeoGuessr) are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used only to identify what they refer to. LocateImages has no relationship with any of them, nor their sponsorship or endorsement.
Credits
LocateImages relies on the work of many people and projects:
- Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License, through the tiles and style of OpenFreeMap (OpenMapTiles schema).
- The map is drawn with MapLibre GL JS (3-Clause BSD licence).
- GeoCLIP, by Vicente Vivanco Cepeda, Gaurav Kumar Nayak and Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida), under the MIT licence, built on OpenAI's CLIP model (MIT licence).
- The AI analysis, by Claude, from Anthropic.
- The dotted world of the home page, drawn from the land data of Natural Earth, in the public domain.
- Typeface: Geist, by Vercel (SIL Open Font License 1.1).
- The street-level photos of the exact search, from Mapillary, Panoramax and KartaView, each with its author, its licence and its link next to the photo.
- The example photos, from Wikimedia Commons, resized and saved again without their metadata:
- Silver Mining Road in Hyogo, by 663highland, under CC BY 2.5.
- Rorbus in Skagen of Reine in Moskenes, Nordland, Norway, by Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Ruta 40, Northern Argentina, by Dan Peschio, under CC BY-SA 3.0.
- And, as the street-level photo of the exact search's demonstration, Old Ikuno Mine Company House, Asago, Hyogo, by 663highland, under CC BY 2.5.
Links to other websites
This website links to others, such as OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Mapillary, Panoramax, KartaView or the projects credited above. I am not responsible for their content or their privacy practices.