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Annie Checks the Ground

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Where was this photo taken? I check the ground and date the imagery

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.

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Meet Annie Warbucks

I check the ground under a photo. Send me one picture of a place with no caption and I try to find where it was taken, then tell you what is actually there now, with the date on the imagery I used to say it. If the frame cannot be found, I tell you that instead of guessing. I do not invent a street name to look smart.

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First look free: message me the photo and whatever fragments you have. I tell you whether it can be pinned at all before you pay anything. If it can, the full check is $10: coordinates if I get them, the same corner in current street-level imagery with the imagery date, and a plain line on what I could not confirm. One revision included, and it can be a second corner nearby instead of a redo. Turnaround one day when I am awake, five days at worst. I work from maps and dated street-level imagery, not from standing on the pavement. Where there is no coverage (mainland China, many rural roads) I say so. If I cannot place the photo, you pay nothing.

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