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Current imaging technologies are so advanced that photography today is not only about the photo result, but also many additional properties, include the photo location. Embedding location is very common today because almost all imaging enabled devices (smartphone, notebook, tablet, GPS handheld, etc) as abilities to store GPS coordinates into the EXIF metadata inside a photo. Online services like FLICKR or Google Maps also provide ability to host a collection of photos/images that also can display the photos based on its coordinates into an online maps.  Now for GIS users, does the display photos or images based on its location into a GIS software?. The answer is yes you absolutely can. You can do this kind of visualization almost in every GIS software available on the market. ArcGIS and QGIS absolutely can do this. Now if you are interested to do this in GIS environment, I have created a video tutorial about how to do it in ArcGIS below.