Objectives
- Ask what fixes an image to a place
- Ask what fixes it to a time
Video
Lesson
Geolocation asks which visible features could only appear in one place: signage, street furniture, terrain lines, building shapes. Chronolocation asks what fixes the moment: weather, construction stages, light and shadow, dated posters, the earliest verified appearance online.
Neither is guesswork. Each claim should name the feature that supports it, and every unresolved feature stays unresolved.
Terms
Sources
Faculty
Bellingcat
Stichting Bellingcat
Open source verification, geolocation, chronolocation, published methodology
Taught as published method: the techniques and the editorial standard, including the requirement that outside readers can reproduce the work. Specific investigations are referenced only as demonstrations of technique.
Reproducible method is the claim being taught. Any particular investigation's conclusions are that organization's, not this site's.