RELATED: What Is EXIF Data, and How Can I Remove It From My Photos? How to Stop Embedding GPS Coordinates in Your Photos A phone or digital camera may just have been using its last known location if it couldn’t get an up-to-date GPS signal while taking the photo. It’s also possible for the GPS location to be off a bit. Google offers instructions for properly formatting the coordinates for Google Maps.īear in mind that this is just metadata and could be faked, but it’s pretty rare that someone would bother to fake metadata instead of stripping it entirely. Many mapping services offer this feature-you can plug the coordinates straight into Google Maps, for example. These are standard GPS coordinates, so you just need to match them to a location on a map to find where the photo was actually taken. Match the Coordinates to a Location on a Map If you don’t see these details, the’ve been stripped from (or never included in) the image file. Many image-sharing services online-but not all of them-automatically strip the geolocation details for privacy reasons. The person who took the photo may have disabled this feature on their phone or manually removed the EXIF details afterwards. GPS coordinates are not embedded in every single photo. Sure, you may be able to see this information with an “EXIF viewer” application, but most operating systems have this feature built in. In macOS, right-click the image file (or Control+click it), and select “Get Info.” You’ll see the Latitude and Longitude coordinates under the “More Info” section.
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