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It's possible the image you uploaded contains geographic coordinates.

EDIT: this is exactly what happened with my image upload, for example

I thought about that but no, they were resized pictures completely lacking EXIF tags.

Cropping doesn't necessarily remove exif. It doesn't even always remove the original pixels (simply setting cropTop and cropLeft and similar fields).

My mind was blown when I saw rainbolt uncrop a picture.

Anyways as mentioned elsewhere: when I tried it the vision api was overloaded but I still received the location data. And it was from a picture taken inside my car (no landmarks or horizons visible).

I haven't tried this particular tool, but SOTA models are really good at geoguessing photos that legitimately don't have EXIF.

I've tried with personal photos and was able to get very accurate guesses just with flora and architecture in the background of a photo.

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