Geotagging Photos Phone Setup

Requires photos with EXIF data with the GPS position. 

• Privacy settings must allow GPS to include the EXIF data in photos.  As the operating systems pay more attention to privacy, the required settings have moved around and you might need to do a Google search to find their current locations and what you must set.
  • iPhone: Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera. 
  • Android:
    • Settings, Secuirty & location, Privacy, Location on
    • Settings, Personal, Location, and insure it is on.
    • The camera app also has a setting: General, Save location
    • For the MotoX (maybe others) you also have to adjust the camera settings, and turn on Geo-Tag (also called location) with the teardrop icon

 Be careful running the pictures through other software, which might strip out the EXIF header information (which might be desirable for security purposes).

• Photos uploaded to Facebook, and similar sites, generally have the EXIF data stripped out.  Many photo editors also remove the EXIF data.
• GMAIL will strip out the EXIF data.
• Mailing a smaller version of the file from the phone will also probably strip out the EXIF data.

Edit to photos in the MICRODEM Load image simple image editor should preserve the EXI information.

Looking at the file Properties after right clicking of the file in Windows Explorer shows the Exif information in the "Details" tab.  This appears not to work when viewing the file on the phone attached as a drive, but does work when you copy images to the PC.

Last revision 1/12/2020