Scenery

Where?????????

Hmmmm. I'd like to say on the descent from O Cebreiro. Or leading into Ponferrada. I will have to walk again and actually write thing down next time......

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EXIF data in the photo indicates that the picture was taken 2016/12/04 11:54:36 at coordinates 42.76544,-7.29403 which makes the town between Triacastela and Sarria.
https://mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4....z=15&t=h&label=on&markers=||42.76544,-7.29403

@Rick of Rick and Peg Thanks Rick - if those co-ords are correct then the picture was possibly taken from the top of Alto Riocabo (905 mts) which would afford a view west to Sarria. Good work!

@Rick of Rick and Peg
Please tell me how to do this geo location thingy.
I am in awe

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A jpeg file, besides having image data within it, can have other optional pieces of data also in a format known as EXIF. This can include text comments (such as copyright data you can add), date and time of the photograph, orientation of the camera (landscape or portrait), details about the camera, details of the settings the camera used to take the photograph (shutter speed, aperture, manual or automatic, etc), thumbnail copies of the image and, get this, sometimes the coordinates of the location that the photo was taken from. You can read the entire Wikipedia article on EXIF here but the link takes you right to the geo-location sub-section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif#Geolocation

Software can open up the image and extract the EXIF data. You can download one but there are some websites that will do this for you. A search for online EXIF viewer may find some for you. Here are two I've used:

• http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
  This uses a captcha to prevent robots from using the site and driving up its costs. When it went to its new site to use the captcha I had to stop using it because the captcha fails on my ancient setup.
• http://www.verexif.com/en/
  I went over to using this one.

Both allow you to enter a URL of a photo or to upload one from your device instead. So, get to a page on the forum with the photo, use the browser to display just the photo itself and copy the URL of it and drop it into the URL box in the form the EXIF vier has. Sometimes the viewer cannot access the picture because of forum protections. In that case you can download the picture and then use the EXIF viewer to upload and analyse it. I've found that more often than not the forum pictures don't provide useful information. There are a number of reasons for this but I'm not getting into that.

One more thing, At least one of your images had the coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds format. That is ugly and hard to use. Most software that I've seen prefer to use decimal degrees with a minus sign indicating West longitude or south latitude. You can see how I used the decimal degrees format in my comment above. I went from the format your camera used to decimal degrees by using a converter tool at http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/convert_lat_long/

The verexif.com viewer will give you a link to see the data but even though I got the EXIF data and the following link from a page totally in English it linked to a page with the data in Spanish. Here is the link anyway: http://www.verexif.com/ver.php?foto_url=https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/camino-photos/scenery.6158/full?d=1488360435

Edit: I tried something out and if you add a "en/" to the URL the site gives you it will come up in English. So, after the ".com/" in the URL add "en/" to get ".com/en/" and things should work. Try clicking this modified URL as well: http://www.verexif.com/en/ver.php?f.../camino-photos/scenery.6158/full?d=1488360435

Incredible @Rick of Rick and Peg .
Thank you.