What is Picarta?
Picarta leverages artificial intelligence to analyze the visual content of photos, enabling identification of the shooting location without requiring original location data. Users can upload local images or paste image links, and the system returns high-confidence GPS coordinates, along with city and country information, visually displaying the predictions on a map. The system continuously refines its models to improve accuracy, making it suitable for street scenes, buildings, natural landscapes, and landmark images.
Key features
By analyzing visual features in images—such as architecture, landforms, vegetation, and signage—it infers the shooting location independently of EXIF or GPS metadata;
It returns multiple candidate geolocations with confidence scores and allows users to open them in Google Maps, download maps, or view detailed information like latitude, longitude, and timestamps.
Use cases and audience
Open-source intelligence investigators, journalists, law enforcement agencies, photographers, researchers, and global travelers
- Identifies the shooting location from photos, ideal for open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations
- Verify the authenticity and geographic origin of news images
- Travelers can trace back the exact location where a photo was taken
Photo files or image links
Predicted latitude and longitude, timestamp, camera model information, a Google Maps link, and map download functionality
Frequently asked questions
Where was this photo taken?
After uploading a photo, Picarta’s AI analyzes visual cues in the image—such as buildings, landforms, vegetation, and signage—to return the most likely GPS location, city, and country, even if the photo lacks EXIF or GPS metadata.
How does Picarta work?
Picarta uses AI to analyze the visual content of photos, identify geographic features, and output GPS coordinates along with confidence scores. It supports uploading images or pasting image links, and displays the top predicted location on a map.
How to use
- 01
Upload a photo
- 02
Wait for the AI to analyze the image
- 03
Select the search range (global / specific country / custom region)
- 04
View the predicted GPS coordinates, city and country, along with the confidence score
Pricing and availability
Free users receive basic location results; upgrading your account unlocks full result details.
- Pricing source
- https://picarta.ai/
- Pricing last updated
- 2026-10-30
Prices and limits may change. Check the official website for current terms.
Official website & sources
Updated on 2026-10-30
