EXIF Data on photos taken through GaiaGPS
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Patrick
Apr 30, 2012, 4:33:05 AM4/30/12
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I noticed that there seems to be a difference between pictures taken
using the built-in Camera app and pictures taken through the Gaia app.
Photos taken through Gaia lack EXIF data. Particularly, the photos
taken through Gaia lack what I'd consider the most important EXIF data
- the Date Taken, Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude.
I import photos from the iPhone to a Windows machine via Windows
Explorer. And I use my photos in several different applications
outside of Gaia and everytrail's website, so the lack EXIF data is
making my life more difficult than I expected it.
Is this expected behavior, or have I missed a setting? I worry that I
might be stuck with writing a batch script to check the modifcation
date and using a 3rd party app to write EXIF data to each photo
without any EXIF data attached to it. Having to do this isn't a hugely
big deal, but I thought I'd still ask you folks.
Thanks!
using the built-in Camera app and pictures taken through the Gaia app.
Photos taken through Gaia lack EXIF data. Particularly, the photos
taken through Gaia lack what I'd consider the most important EXIF data
- the Date Taken, Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude.
I import photos from the iPhone to a Windows machine via Windows
Explorer. And I use my photos in several different applications
outside of Gaia and everytrail's website, so the lack EXIF data is
making my life more difficult than I expected it.
Is this expected behavior, or have I missed a setting? I worry that I
might be stuck with writing a batch script to check the modifcation
date and using a 3rd party app to write EXIF data to each photo
without any EXIF data attached to it. Having to do this isn't a hugely
big deal, but I thought I'd still ask you folks.
Thanks!
Andrew Johnson
Apr 30, 2012, 12:44:32 PM4/30/12
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Hey Patrick,
We do tag photos in Gaia with EXIF data - the EXIF data is preserved if you export the photos by email, within the app
However, when the photos get saved to the camera roll, Apple strips all EXIF data, for security reasons.
This is a bit confusing, because we have Gaia also save a copy of the photo to the camera roll, just because people asked for that feature long ago.
Does that make sense and match your experience?
Regards,
Andrew
Patrick
Apr 30, 2012, 2:06:01 PM4/30/12
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That does match my experience. I hadn't yet heard about that
"feature" of the camera roll. Thank you for sharing that bit of info.
I emailed the photos to myself. The only difference I see in the EXIF
data from the camera roll vs email is that the emailed photos have GPS
lat/long properties. The emailed photos don't appear to have Date
Taken or Altitude. (Altitude isn't as big of a deal as Date Taken,
aka datetime/datetimeoriginal/datetimedigitized in the EXIF schema.)
Sorry to bug you about all of this! After using Gaia for the past 6
months I've started noticing these things and finally got the nerve to
start asking ya.
Cheers,
Patrick
"feature" of the camera roll. Thank you for sharing that bit of info.
I emailed the photos to myself. The only difference I see in the EXIF
data from the camera roll vs email is that the emailed photos have GPS
lat/long properties. The emailed photos don't appear to have Date
Taken or Altitude. (Altitude isn't as big of a deal as Date Taken,
aka datetime/datetimeoriginal/datetimedigitized in the EXIF schema.)
Sorry to bug you about all of this! After using Gaia for the past 6
months I've started noticing these things and finally got the nerve to
start asking ya.
Cheers,
Patrick
Andrew Johnson
Apr 30, 2012, 2:09:12 PM4/30/12
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Hey Patrick,
No problem, thanks for writing!
I haven't looked at the EXIF code for a while, but I can believe we don't do date or altitude. Would you mind adding this to our UserVoice forum, where other can see the idea and vote: http://gaiagps.uservoice.com
I don't think we'll get to it right this second, but I bet adding a couple more EXIF properties isn't very hard.
Regards,
Andrew
Christoph Struck
Apr 30, 2012, 3:02:43 PM4/30/12
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Sorry Andrew, but did you receive my mail? Wrote several times without answeres...
Christoph Struck (mobil versendet)
Andrew Johnson
Apr 30, 2012, 5:08:33 PM4/30/12
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Hi Chris,
We received emails from your on March 26 and April 1, and we responded the same day. One was about your idea to integrate with MyMaps, and the other was about the issue with v6.3
Did our responses not reach you? I could try and re-send.
Regards,
Andrew
Christoph Struck
Apr 30, 2012, 7:06:07 PM4/30/12
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I think this is my fault, i should configure my spammail options. Thanks for the answeres...
Patrick
May 1, 2012, 3:33:02 AM5/1/12
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Done and done. Thanks Andrew.
> No problem, thanks for writing!
>
> I haven't looked at the EXIF code for a while, but I can believe we don't
> do date or altitude. Would you mind adding this to our UserVoice forum,
> where other can see the idea and vote:http://gaiagps.uservoice.com
>
> I don't think we'll get to it right this second, but I bet adding a couple
> more EXIF properties isn't very hard.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Johnson
>
> I haven't looked at the EXIF code for a while, but I can believe we don't
> do date or altitude. Would you mind adding this to our UserVoice forum,
> where other can see the idea and vote:http://gaiagps.uservoice.com
>
> I don't think we'll get to it right this second, but I bet adding a couple
> more EXIF properties isn't very hard.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Johnson
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