MW Geofind

Tool Description : Finds geotagged YouTube videos on a map.

MW Geo-find

Quick Overview

URL

https://mattw.io/youtube-geofind/location

What it does

Maps YouTube videos by location.

How to use it

Drop a pin or search a location, set filters, and browse videos on the map.

Cost

Free.

Account required

No.

Mix of strictly necessary security cookies and some medium-level cookies for settings and user experience.

Ownership

Created by Matt Wright, an Application Developer based in Pennsylvania.

Use in Reporting

Supports visual verification, timeline building, and sourcing local footage.

What does MW Geofind do?

MW Geofind pulls in geotagged YouTube videos and plots them on an interactive map. This makes it much easier to find relevant footage from a specific location, especially useful during breaking news, conflict monitoring, or event verification. Instead of searching blindly on YouTube, you can visually explore what was filmed in a given area.

The lowdown: It’s a fast, simple tool for finding location-based YouTube footage.

How to Use:

1. Enter a location or manually move the map to your area of interest.

2. Adjust filters (date range, keywords, radius) to narrow results. Then click map markers to view and analyse videos directly.

Cost

Free
Partially Free
Paid

Data Processing

Account Required:

Cookies:

Mostly Google authentication and security cookies, with a mix of strictly necessary security cookies and some medium-level cookies used for settings and user experience.

Use in Reporting

MW Geofind is useful for:

Finding eyewitness footage near an incident.
Supporting geolocation efforts.
Building timelines from user-generated content.
Corroborating events with visual evidence.

In real-world terms, it’s an ideal tool for reporting on conflict coverage (e.g. locating YouTube footage from areas in Ukraine or Iran), protest and civil unrest monitoring (finding on-the-ground uploads near events) and breaking news incidents.

Capabilities

Limitations

Maps geotagged YouTube content visually.

Only works with videos that have geolocation data.

Filters by date, keyword, and radius.

Dependent on YouTube’s API and available metadata.

Surfaces hyper-local video evidence.

Can miss relevant videos without location tags.

Speeds up discovery of relevant footage.

Summary

MW Geofind is best used during the Collection and Initial Analysis phases of the OSINT workflow as a discovery layer alongside other verification tools.