I see the long/lat information when I look at the info in iPhoto.
I am just curious about the resolution that is being saved.
It is showing in the format:
XX XX X.XX N
XX XX X.XX W
but the last three digits are all 0.00 I am wondering why it isn't showing the resolution to that detail - does the GPS receive it and the data is not saved?
Anyone else seeing any more resolution than that?
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.
