Find out where a video was recorded
Drop one video or a whole folder of them. Any coordinates stored at the moment of recording are pulled out, pinned on a map and ready to export as GPX — without a single byte being uploaded.
Drop videos to find where they were recorded
Add one or many. Only the header is read, and nothing leaves your device.
How a video remembers where it was shot
When you press record with location access granted, the camera app takes a GPS fix and writes it into the file header as an ISO 6709 point — a string like +41.0082+028.9784+030.000/. That is a latitude, a longitude and an altitude in metres, packed into a single field. It is written once, at the start, and never updated as you move.
This matters for how you read the result: the pin marks the spot the camera was standing when filming began. For a static shot that is the location of everything in frame. For a walking or driving shot it is only the starting point.
What people use this for
- Checking before you share — confirming whether a clip you are about to post reveals your home or your child's school.
- Organising footage — sorting a card full of holiday or site videos by where each one was taken.
- Documentation — proving a recording was made at a specific place, for insurance, site inspections or property records.
- Route reconstruction — exporting a batch as GPX to plot the sequence of stops on a trip.
If the answer you want is the opposite — you would rather no one could do any of this to your files — the video metadata remover erases the coordinates without re-encoding the footage.
Frequently asked questions
Can you find the location a video was taken?
If the camera saved one, yes. Phones write the coordinates into the video's header at the moment recording starts, and this tool reads them back. If the field is absent the video simply never carried a location — there is no way to recover one that was not recorded, and any tool claiming otherwise is guessing.
How accurate are the coordinates?
They are a single GPS fix taken as recording began, typically accurate to within a few metres outdoors. It marks where the camera started filming, not where it ended, so a moving shot is only pinned at its first frame.
Where do iPhone and Android store this differently?
Android writes a QuickTime ©xyz atom. iPhone uses Apple's key-value metadata under the name com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709. Both encode the same ISO 6709 point — a signed latitude, longitude and often altitude — and this tool reads either one.
What is the GPX file for?
GPX is the standard exchange format for location data. Drop several videos and the export gives you one file with a named waypoint per clip, which opens directly in Google Earth, Garmin software, GPX viewers and most mapping tools.
Why do videos from WhatsApp or Instagram show nothing?
Those platforms re-encode uploads and discard the metadata boxes in the process. The same is true of most editing app exports. By the time a video has been shared through one of them, its location is already gone.