Image verification and geolocation playbook
Check a photo's metadata, find earlier copies, and work out where and when it was taken
intermediate
Turns coordinates into map, satellite, street-level and sun-position links for checking a place
Community-packaged from github.com/osintverse-community/geo-links: the registry's community pins the upstream release; the tool is its authors' work. Maintain that project? Claim this package.
Run
Through ot mcp, an agent calls run_tool with this; ot asks you before anything that goes online or touches a target. Set it up: ot mcp install claude (or cursor, vscode, codex, gemini).
{"tool":"osintverse-community/geo-links","target":"48.8584,2.2945","input_type":"string"}Or just say: "Run osintverse-community/geo-links on 48.8584,2.2945 with OTInstaller." The registry's read-only MCP server at api.otinstaller.com/mcp can find tools without installing anything.
ot run osintverse-community/geo-links --coordinates 48.8584,2.2945 --format tableot install osintverse-community/geo-linksDocker image in a read-only container · no network · no key · up to 1 min. The first ot run installs the tool after asking once. The example value is the registry's own test input, so this command has run. Drop --format table for JSON.
ot? Install it in one linecurl -fsSL https://get.otinstaller.com/ot | shot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.ot in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin. Nothing else is written. Read the script.irm https://get.otinstaller.com/ot.ps1 | iexot release for your machine from GitHub Releases.checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script.ot in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ot, and adds it to your PATH. Nothing else is written. Read the script.sha256:5b8ee6b2…d9cada. The same bytes on every install; ot pulls by digest, never by tag.ot checks the same identity before every install and refuses another signer.ot pulls the same digest from the mirror and checks the same signature.{
"envelope": 1,
"tool": "osintverse-community/geo-links@0.1.0",
"runtime": "docker",
"input": {
"coordinates": "48.8584,2.2945"
},
"started_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
"duration_ms": 4100,
"exit_code": 0,
"entities": [
{
"type": "location",
"value": "51.5074,-0.1278",
"attrs": {
"city": "London"
}
},
{
"type": "url",
"value": "https://example.com/page"
}
],
"warnings": []
}Every tool returns this shape, shaped here from what this tool declares it finds. --format table to read it; ot extract and ot auto to continue.
Takes coordinates in decimal or degrees-minutes-seconds form and gives you links to the same spot on OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Earth and Street View, Bing aerial, Apple Maps, Mapillary street photos, the Copernicus satellite archive, Wikimapia, Overpass Turbo and SunCalc. Runs offline.
ot run osintverse-community/geo-links --coordinates "48°51'30\"N 2°17'40\"E"
| Input | Required | |
|---|---|---|
coordinates |
yes | "lat,lon" in decimal degrees, or degrees-minutes-seconds |
Use the satellite archive to date a photo by construction or seasons, and SunCalc to check a time of day against shadow directions.
Get coordinates from a photo with osintverse-community/exif-meta.
pip install # no dependencies
python -m unittest
ot validate
Releases are built, signed and published by the otinstaller release workflow (Actions tab, with the version to release).
MIT
Check a photo's metadata, find earlier copies, and work out where and when it was taken
geo-links finds location, url. Tools that take those: