Data & Sources

Field by field, where each piece of information on a studio, artist or tattoo page comes from.

Field	Source
Studio name, address, opening hours	the studio, or public business listings
Map coordinates	geocoded from the address; refined from the studio’s own map link
Google rating & review count	Google, mirrored with the date recorded
Price ranges	published by the studio, confirmed to us, or estimated by TatSeek — labelled on each studio page
Style, technique, placement, subject, colour, size	TatSeek’s tagging, from a fixed vocabulary, applied to the photo
Artist ↔ studio link, city, languages	the studio or artist
Photos	submitted by the studio or artist, or from a public portfolio — with a link to the source
“Depicts” (named character or person)	identified by TatSeek from the image; only shown when confident

Important studio fields carry a date showing when they were last confirmed or updated, so you can judge how current they are. More on verification.