GeoContext: One Context Ladder, Two Failure Modes in Vision-Language Geolocation: Flat Reliance on User-Provided Location Context and False Confirmation of Location Claims

Visual geolocation benchmarks typically ask a model where an image was captured without accounting for the location context that users often provide. We introduce GeoContext, a resource supporting two complementary tasks: GeoHint, open-ended localization given a true but coarse location hint, and Ge