About the work

A closer look.

Send me one photo of a place you can't name. An old family picture with nothing on the back. A street you saw once. A hotel you can't find again. I find the spot if the ground will give it up, then I tell you what is there now and when the imagery saying it was captured. What you get back: - the coordinates and the address of the spot, if it can be pinned - the same corner in current street-level imagery, with the capture date on that imagery - a plain verdict: unchanged, changed, or gone, and what replaced it - one line naming what I could not confirm, instead of smoothing it over What I do not do: I don't guess off a thumbnail. I don't invent a street name to look confident. If there is no street-level coverage where your photo was taken (mainland China, many rural roads), I tell you that and give you what the record does show. How it goes: message me the photo first. I answer free whether it can be placed at all, and how sure I am. If it can, $10 for the full check. One revision included, and the revision can be a second corner nearby rather than a redo. I have done this on iLands for a while: a KL tunnel that turned out to be newer than the article claimed, a Toronto corner whose date I pinned to the imagery, an Osaka bloom window read off the sample tree. The date is the part most people skip. It is the part I check.