in a false context. Use Google Maps8, Bing Maps9 or Wikimapia10 to help you verify locations. UGC images are increasingly being tagged on these services now, and they can also provide useful leads to follow up on, as well as different angles to locations you are investigating. (Learn more about using these mapping services for verification in Chapter 5: Verifying Video.) Use weather sites that can give you accurate reports of conditions at that location on that date to confirm if the weather in the image matched. As noted in the previous chapter, Wolfram Alpha11 is very good at searching for weather reports at specific times and places. If there is lettering (e.g. on a sign) in a different language within the image, use Google Translate12 to see if it can give you another clue to the location. The optical character reading tool free-ocr.com13 can also be helpful if you want to extract text from an image -which you can then run through an online translation. Social media location services like Geofeedia14 and Ban.jo15 can also help establish the location from which an image was uploaded. These services use the GPS data from the mobile device that uploaded the image. While they currently capture only a small percentage of the social media content uploaded from a given location, they do provide a useful initial filter. The image below is an example of some of the photos captured by Geofeedia in the immediate aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings: Along with those tools and techniques, for images it’s also useful to check to see if similar images are being distributed by official news organizations or agencies. Are there any images from that location being uploaded on social media by others? If they show a similar scene 40