Photo's Are Geotagged.... Now What?

[UWSpindoctor]

It works on SmugMug using the app to upload directly from the phone. Overlays the photos on google maps. Location is good to a few hundred feet.

 

[MICHAELSD]

I thought that it would be cool to have an option to see where your photos were taken on the map. There should be a mode that puts all of the photos that we took onto a map and when we scroll around the map we can open up the photos.

 

[sassenach74]

Okay so I've never done geotagging before but am going on vacation tomorrow and wanted to be able to pull up a map when I get home that shows my whole trip across the country with photos. Problem is I can't even figure out how this works. I take a picture and my phone asks if it can use location services I say allow and take the picture but I can't find ANY of the geotag information anywhere on the phone, the computer in iPhoto or Preview or if I upload to Picasa. How does this work exactly? Thanks so much for your time.

My phone never even asks me if I want to use location services, wonder what I'm doing wrong there then? I've taken pics with location services on and off before taking the pic. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[Jack Dangers]

I've been using AirMe, which is free from the App store, and it works very well with Flickr. The geo-tags works very well and shows up exactly where it was taken on the Flickr Map. It's pretty darn cool...

 

[muttley1211]

I might get flamed for this, but is there any way to use geotagging besides with some of these apps...



... I am tired and can't figure this one out

 

[syclonefx]

Post them on Flickr.

http://flickr.com/account/geo/import/

http://www.flickr.com/help/screencasts/vol2

 

[MadGoat]

It works.

If you email the photo, it won't -- because the image gets scaled down, all the EXIF metadata gets stripped out.

If you connect your iPhone to your computer and you take the photos straight out of the DCIM folder, the EXIF data is intact, and will display on Google Maps just fine.

Not sure how some of the photo apps from the App Store work though.

This is a response I got tonight

This is a follow up to Bug ID# MyBugNumber. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 5938067. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the State column, in this format: Duplicate/OrigBug#.

If you have any additional questions related to this bug or wish to check on status of the original issue, please update this bug report or send an email to <devbugs@apple.com>, referencing your Bug ID# MyBugNumber.

Thank you for submitting this bug report. We truly appreciate your assistance in helping us discover and isolate bugs.

Best Regards,

Stoney Gamble
Apple Developer Connection
Worldwide Developer Relations

 

[genshi]

Hopefully this will shed some further light on the subject. I just posted this on another thread here at MacRumors and this is what I found in my tests:

Disclaimer: I am completely new to the whole GPS thing, but tend to catch on quickly, so forgive me if I state the obvious or make a mistake with the following:

Strange, I just noticed something. I've been wanting to do the whole Geocaching/ Waymarking thing but never owned a GPS unit until the iPhone 3G. Apparently it is saving fairly high resolution data but it depends on how you extract this data. In my case, without knowing what I was doing at first, I got the data I was looking for to put on my new Waymarking blog. Here is what I found using the actual data from a photo I took:

The actual coordinates of the photo I took were:
GPS Latitude: N 34° 5' 46.79"
GPS Longitude: W 118° 7' 36.12"

I found this by uploading the photo directly from my iPhone to my Dot Mac Web Gallery and then going to "Info", though it only showed the data as:
34° 5' 46.79"
118° 7' 36.12"

... and without the N and W it put my photo in a lake somewhere in China when looking at in on Google Maps (after researching I realized I needed to put the N or the W or alternatively a + in place of N and a - in place of W.)

When looking at the info in iPhoto it only shows:
34° 6' 0.00" N
118° 8' 0.00" W

Not as accurate.

In Photoshop (CS3) it shows as:
GPSLatitude: 34,5.78
GPSLongitude: 118,7.6

Confusing a GPS noob like me even further.

So the most accurate strangely enough seems to be the Dot Mac Web Gallery info. And there definitely needs to be a better or easier way to extract the exact geotagged data from a photo than all of these round-about ways. I am also very surprised that no one has made an iPhone app yet that will let you load in your photo and present you with the geotagged data (I know Geopher is hopefully coming soon, but it won't take data from your photo either, it simply allows you to input data you already have by typing it in.)

Edit: Google maps by the way, further converts my coordinates to:
34.096331, -118.126700

This along with the Web Gallery info puts my photo in almost the exact place I was standing, within a foot or two.

 

[GoCubsGo]

There is an app called Clowdy that puts the geo tag to good use.

No I didn't read 2 pages of replies so if I am repeating information already delivered then oh well.

 

[The General]

You can open your photos in Preview and open the inspector and see the geotag info.

There's a little button to open Google Maps.

 

[genshi]

You can open your photos in Preview and open the inspector and see the geotag info.

There's a little button to open Google Maps.

Not sure what inspector/ google maps button you are referring too (though it may be a Leopard thing in Preview? I'm still on Tiger and can't upgrade.)

But when I "get info" in Preview (in Tiger), it too misinterprets my data as:
Latitude 34.09633
Longitude 118.1267

Putting the photo in a lake in China instead of in a plaza in Alhambra, California! (Uploading directly to Flickr also incorrectly interpreted the data.)

...but again, when taking a photo with the iPhone 3G, there should be a way to see the geotagged data right then and there with out having to upload or sync or anything other than maybe using another app on the iPhone to extract the data, don't you think?