https://geospy.ai/ is disturbingly accurate. They sell an API that even returns a street address.
GPT-4o is also terrifyingly good if prompted to think investigatively. I've uploaded a photo of a friend's generic backyard with no text, signs, people, sky, or anything obvious, and it nailed their specific neighborhood. I've even sent it nothing more than a photo of my bathroom (with product labels blacked out) and it still identified sufficient clues to guess a locality within 200 miles of my actual location.
A regular Sherlock Holmes with superhuman levels of world knowledge.
Interestingly, my experience with it has been the opposite.
While it's quite good at understanding what's in the picture it only has gotten my country right a few times and even then it just gives the capital, which I'm quite far away from.
Just ran a few things through geospy. Including one of the inside of a plant room with some very generic aircon units. It got the right city based on the brick work.
Did you remove the metadata before sending it? The bathroom story is far too impressive if you did, and could help identify kidnapping victims' locations
GPT-4o is also terrifyingly good if prompted to think investigatively. I've uploaded a photo of a friend's generic backyard with no text, signs, people, sky, or anything obvious, and it nailed their specific neighborhood. I've even sent it nothing more than a photo of my bathroom (with product labels blacked out) and it still identified sufficient clues to guess a locality within 200 miles of my actual location.
A regular Sherlock Holmes with superhuman levels of world knowledge.