Guides

Learn to place any photo

Longer reads on the craft behind the game — the same skills that make you better at When Where.

How to date an old photograph

The visual clues that pin a photo to a decade — process and print type, cars, clothing, and technology in the frame.

Script, architecture, traffic direction, vegetation, and light — how to work out where in the world an image was taken.

What public domain and Creative Commons actually mean, and why huge photo archives are free for anyone to use.