How to work out where a photo was taken, one clue at a time.
Read a photo in order: writing and script, traffic side, licence plates, road signs, landscape, roofs and shadows. A practical method with a cheat sheet.
Work out what language a sign is in without reading it: Chinese vs Japanese vs Korean, Russian vs Ukrainian, Arabic vs Urdu, Thai vs Lao vs Khmer.
Identify a language from its special letters and diacritics: which language uses ñ, ø, ł, ř, ő or ə, plus the sign words that settle close calls.
The 54 countries and 22 territories that drive on the left, listed by region, plus how to read the driving side from a single photo.
Chad and Romania, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Ivory Coast: how to tell look-alike flags apart in a photo, and when not to trust one.
Read a licence plate (license plate in the US) in a photo: EU blue band codes, yellow plates, front and rear rules, Mercosur, Japan's kei plates and more.
Tell Spanish from Portuguese, Danish from Norwegian, Czech from Slovak and Malay from Indonesian using the words on exits, pharmacies and shop doors.
Read the hemisphere from sun position, shadows, satellite dishes, seasons and the night sky, and why the sink-draining test is a myth.
Warning sign shapes, stop sign wording, mph or km/h, motorway sign colours, centre lines and typefaces: how to place a road sign in a photo.
Dry hills and scrub look the same in Spain, California, Chile, Cape Town and Perth. The native plants, roofs and road clues that tell them apart.
Read the small print on signs and price tags: dialling codes like +48, web domains like .co.uk, currency symbols like zł or Kč, and decimal commas.
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