get location based on image

Question

I am trying to get the location (preferably city name) based on any image uploaded.
I can see similar functionality used in Google image search where we drag drop an image and it gives a lot of information including location.

Is there any API (or any other way) through which I can get similar sort of information? I have checked tineye but it requires commercial license so can't use that

Answer 1

I got a solution for this.
Basically its using multiple google apis to get one result

1. Google Image Search API call the JSON api https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q=http://www.aparisguide.com/eiffeltower/eiffel-tower1.jpg
   This will result json with information/content about image. We can use this content in step 2

2. Google Search api
   with the content or title obtained from previous search, try accessing google search api http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local?v=1.0&q=Eiffel%20Tower
   this will return the lat and lng for search results as JSON

3. Google geocode api
   with the available lat and lng from previous search we can call the geocode api as below
   http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=48.858228,2.294388&sensor=true
   this will again return JSON with the list of possible address. With little processing of data it can give me the City.

Note: The results are not very consistent but it can solve the purpose to some extent