As a further test, I dropped the street view marker on a random point in the US, near Wichita, Kansas, here's the image:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

I fed it o3, here's the response:

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sampatt/media@main/posts/2025-04...

Nailed it.

There's no metadata there, and the reasoning it outputs makes perfect sense. I have no doubt it'll be tricky when it can be, but I can't see a way for it to cheat here.