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AI Dorks — Image Geolocation

Claude prompts for placing and time-stamping images you’re authorized to analyze — EXIF/GPS extraction, visual-cue geolocation, sun-and-shadow chronolocation math, frame OCR, and geocoding.

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Public-source, authorized use. These are prompt-engineering aids, not jailbreaks. Use them on subjects and infrastructure you’re authorized to investigate; they keep to public sources, respect site terms, and exclude breach data and private-individual targeting. Paste a prompt into Claude, fill the highlighted fields, and have it show its work and cite sources.

Geolocate and time-stamp imagery with Claude

These prompts mix Claude’s vision with code: read EXIF/GPS with exifread, reason over architecture, signage and terrain for candidate locations, compute the sun’s position to test shadows, OCR on-screen text from video frames, and geocode the place names you find. They operate on imagery you are authorized to analyze and never attempt to identify private individuals. For the search-engine side, Claude can also generate Google dork and reverse-image queries to corroborate a location.

Frequently asked questions

Can Claude geolocate a photo with no GPS data?

Yes — the visual-cue prompt reasons over architecture, signage, vegetation and terrain to propose ranked candidate areas with verification links. It’s an estimate, not proof.

What is chronolocation?

Estimating when a photo was taken — here by computing the sun’s azimuth and elevation for a candidate place and date and comparing predicted shadows to the image.

Do these identify people in photos?

No. The detection prompt counts and can blur faces for safe publication; none of these perform facial recognition or identify individuals.

How do you geolocate a photo?

First check the EXIF data for GPS coordinates; if there are none, reason over visual cues — architecture, signage, language, vegetation, terrain and sun position. These prompts walk Claude through both and return ranked candidate locations with verification links.

How do I find the GPS location stored in a photo?

The EXIF prompt extracts embedded GPS latitude and longitude with the exifread library and maps it. Many platforms strip GPS on upload, so a missing location means the data was removed, not that the image is fake.

Is there a Google dork for reverse image search or finding a location?

Reverse image search and operators like site: with place names help, but visual analysis does the heavy lifting. These prompts have Claude reason over EXIF and visual cues to geolocate, and it can craft supporting dorks. See the Google Dorks list.