5 Examining the Location of Event 5.1 Geolocating the Event Depicted Depending on what your verification purpose is, it is typically important to determine where a specific event has taken place. This will help you corroborate the event itself and will contribute to the overall verification process. Geolocating involves the use of tools to pinpoint the location of an event, using GPS coordinates. It is important to be as precise as possible since the data might be used in reports, other publications, or media. With the help of indicators, you will hopefully be able to find the location of the event depicted in the content you are trying to verify.  Go through the video in slowmotion and look for certain indicators of the location. While looking through the video, look for indicators such as bends in the road, street names, street lights, electrical poles, mountains, hills, bodies of water, car plates, language spoken and dialects, buildings (such as churches, mosques, water towers), etc. What you are looking for is something that stands out; something that is unique to that specific place, which could help you locate exactly where the event was captured.  Always remember to take note of the indicators you find, as this process is something your supervisor might be interested in and could help in improving your geolocating skills. Keep in mind that it should be easy to follow the exact steps you have taken to reach your conclusion; this applies to every step in this guide.  From the indicators collected, you could potentially deduce exactly where the content was captured, or at least in which general area it was captured. Use tools such as Google Earth or Google Maps (see Resources and Tools, Section 8.1) to see if you can find the location using satellite imagery.  If you have found the location, take note of it in decimal degrees (coordinates) and use that in the report; using coordinates is a lot more precise than providing the name of a street. Decimal degrees express latitude and longitude geographic coordinates as decimal fractions (i.e. 40.446° N 79.982° W), rather than degrees, minutes, seconds (i.e. 40° 26′ 46″ N 79° 58′ 56″ W). For conversion from degrees to decimal degrees, use an online conversion tool and include it in the report (see Resources and Tools, Section 8.1.5). If you are able to do a geolocation with the data you have collected thus far, geotag the position in Google Earth by dropping a yellow pin and naming it. Also make sure to save it or take a screenshot of it so you don’t lose the information. 30