We recently did a lab in my computer forensics class where we analyzed images of a suspect's phone, and used the metadata of the photos found therein to show he was in the vicinity of where a crime had occurred. This was handed to us on a silver platter, because the latitude and longitude coordinates were found in the photos' "Properties." Pretty cool stuff.

However, clever criminals are more careful about covering their tracks and forensic scientists won't have the luxury of being given such metadata. Because "Location Services" can be disabled on phones and cameras, *is it possible to forensically excavate latitude and longitude coordinates given a photo and/or forensic image from a device where "Location Services" was deactivated and, if so, what is at least one method that can be used to get this information?*

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**Update:** Thanks to John Deters for explaining the ways in which a forensic scientist might pinpoint a photo's geolocation from an image where geographic metadata collection was deactivated. 

*What if the forensic scientist is just given a photo (not an image) with no metadata? Is it forensically possible to chart where that photo was taken, provided that there's no revealing information in the picture; e.g., street signs, unique buildings, etc.?*