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title: Identify location by photographs
date: "2004-04-14T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 855
description: This early software identifies a user's location by analyzing photographs of buildings, providing a precursor to modern visual geolocation and landmark recognition by matching architectural features against a database of city images.
keywords: [geolocation, image recognition, computer vision, urban mapping, landmark identification, visual search]
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There's software that can [locate where you are](http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994857) using a photograph of buildings.