How My Taiwan Night Market Photo Ended Up on the Tung Ying Tattoo Parlor Webpage

For those of you who followed my real time Instagram and Twitter posts of one or two dishes from each eating venue on our Taiwanese tour from late last year, you might be interested in my upcoming 15-part pictorial essay of all the pictures I took of our meals on the tour.  They'll be coming out in a few weeks and might be released all at once Netflix style.  Interestingly, one of the pictures I posted live was this one showing cooked squid for sale at the Ta Tung Night Market in Tainan City.

So how did this picture become part of an amalgam of pictures taken at the Tung Ying Tattoo parlor in Tainan City? 

Well, it's all about geotags, the little bars that appear when you "Add Location" to the Instagram photograph you're about to post.  Generally when you "add a location", the closest registered location to where you are at the time you post the Instagram picture appears first.  But you can't just blindly choose the first listed box.  Perhaps your location has not yet been geotagged, there are multiple overlapping locations, or sometimes the geotag information goes haywire.  Once while in Spain, I was getting geotag choices for Oporto, Portugal.  Another time here in Los Angeles I was getting geotags from Reno.

And of course, if the geotag locations are under a different writing system, e.g., Chinese, you have no idea if the first choice is correct.  So knowing of the issue involved, I still figured it was still better to choose the first location listed and hopefully get many correct locations, instead of using no geotag or a more general one (e.g., name of the city).   Even if it meant mistakenly saying that I was at the fried squid counter at the Tung Ying Tattoo Parlor.