# Geolocalization from a picture took via your phone
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [June 10, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633 "2020-06-10T15:15:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@PlanetZero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PlanetZero)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/1 "2020-06-10T15:15:47Z")
Hi,
I’m just wondering if there is a way to get the geolocalization from a picture you took with your mobile phone?
Use case: Let’s say as a citizen you want to report to your municipality something happened (good or bad) by sharing a photo on the app which could add a pin point to a map…
tks!
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/2 "2020-06-10T15:19:58Z")
Very interesting. In our country (Vietnam) this was the topic for a machine learning competition 2 years ago. Competitors were asked to provide a good guess of the location based on pictures uploaded to a system (user-generated content). The company that organizes the competition (Zalo) holds the biggest Vietnamese social network. I don’t know if they have integrated the best solutions into their system or not.
About your question, I think it’s too complicated for a web app and might need a lot of coding with good datasets to generate it right.
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### Author:  [@Naos\_Wilbrink](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Naos_Wilbrink)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/3 "2020-06-10T15:47:54Z")
You went the complex route @ThinhDinh I think @PlanetZero wants to access the GEO location data in the picture taken (in the meta info).
But I don’t think it’s offered in Glide,…
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/4 "2020-06-10T15:50:39Z")
Oh I didn’t know it’s provided in the metadata as well, no experience with that! Probably that company I mentioned want to have a machine learning solution alongside what they get with the metadata, I suppose. Interesting nevertheless, thanks for sharing.
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### Author:  [@PlanetZero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PlanetZero)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/5 "2020-06-10T15:51:32Z")
@Naos_Wilbrink yes correct! 😉
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/6 "2020-06-10T18:53:36Z")
@PlanetZero You can use Cloudinary to extract metadata from the image. But you need to do it through their API - I cannot help you there - but maybe some of the programmers of the forum can cook a nice Google script which accesses the API (I would like that a lot 🙂 )
[https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image\_upload\_api\_reference#explicit](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference#explicit)
Look for: image\_metadata
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### Author:  [@PlanetZero](https://community.glideapps.com/u/PlanetZero)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/7 "2020-06-11T07:36:27Z")
@Krivo tks for the advice! As long i’m not a programmer, i can’t do it by my own. But let’s see if somebody is interested in it.
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### Author:  [@Naos\_Wilbrink](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Naos_Wilbrink)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/8 "2020-06-11T08:20:40Z")
That’s awesome!!! Just hope that meta data is still in the pic after upload to Glide.
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocalization-from-a-picture-took-via-your-phone/10633/9 "2020-06-11T10:21:05Z")
@naos isn’t that easy to check. Just download an image which has been uploaded to glide and check for exif