Geotagging Photos

Requires photos with EXIF data with the GPS position. 

• Privacy settings must allow GPS to include the EXIF data in photos:
  • iPhone: Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera.  This has moved around with different versions of iOS.
  • 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.

With Windows 7 and up, looking at the file Properties after right clicking of the file in Windows Explorer shows the Exif information.  It will be 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 10/1/2018