as I had a photo where I didn’t know where I had taken it.

I was in a Python class at the time, and thought “this would be a fun side exercise.”

The steps to get the place name was as follows:

1. Read the image file (photo) and extract the GPS co-ordinates
2. using ExifRead
3. Take those GPS co-ordinates and lookup the place name
   using Reverse Geocoder

It was really simple once I knew how.

Some of the diversions which occurred on the way:

• Reverse Geocoding in Python – How to Convert raw Latitude/Longitude to insightful data with Addresses.
  This looked more complicated and detailed than what I need now.
  (though, street address vis Open Street Map may be useful in the future)
• GPSPhoto
  I first used GPSPhoto and it worked.  It may be abandonware, which is why I didn’t continue looking at it.

References:

• GPS data from photos with Python
• Python: get GPS latitude and longitude coordinates from JPEG EXIF using exifread