A photo of a cracked wall, an unfamiliar coastline, or a delivered pallet is only evidence if you can say where it was taken. GPS coordinates written on the image itself answer that question permanently, even after the file is emailed, compressed, or screenshotted.
Reading the coordinates from the photo
If location services were on when the shot was taken, latitude and longitude are already inside the file. Drop the photo into the labeler and the coordinates appear as a ready label chip, formatted as 37.80921° N, 122.47443° W. Drag it onto the frame and you are done.
Adding a place name too
Raw coordinates are precise but unreadable to humans. For anything a person will read, pair them with a plain-language line: the street, the site name, the unit number. Two short lines — place name above, coordinates below — is the standard format for field documentation.
Compass direction
Photos taken with a phone often include GPSImgDirection, the bearing the camera faced. On site photos this is genuinely useful: N 348° tells the next person which elevation of the building they are looking at. The labeler converts the raw degrees into a compass label automatically.
Photos with no GPS
Location data is missing whenever location services were off, the camera has no GPS chip, or the platform stripped it. Type the location manually — a site name and address are usually more useful than coordinates anyway.
Where to place a location label
Bottom edge, left-aligned, small monospace on a dark plate. Keep it small: location data is reference information, not the subject. Around 2.5–3% of image width is legible when the photo is viewed full screen and unobtrusive in a gallery.
Think before publishing coordinates
Coordinates on a public photo reveal exactly where you stood. For travel and landscape work that is part of the appeal; for anything near home, a workplace, or a child's routine, use a broad place name instead and keep the precise version for private records.
Do it now: open the free photo labeler, drop in your image, and drag the label where you want it. Everything runs in your browser — the photo is never uploaded.