Process and analysis
What is Geolocation?
Working out where a photo, video or person is, from visible clues like signs and landmarks, or from technical data such as IP addresses.
Geolocation is determining where something is or was. In OSINT it usually means locating a photo or video from what it shows: signs, shop fronts, road markings, terrain, the angle of shadows. In network analysis it means estimating where an IP address is, which is far less precise.
Visual geolocation is checked by matching the scene against satellite imagery and street-level photos. IP geolocation databases are often wrong at city level, especially for mobile networks and VPNs.