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Exporting Geotagged Photos

Hi there
I have read lots of posts on how to enable GPS Photo feature on the kaiser but mine came with it on already. I seem to be having problems exporting these pictures from the phone with the geo data in the Exif tags. I usually just drag them over using the USB connection but when I check them on the PC the GPS data isn't there. I don't know if it is being stripped or just not being attached to the photo. The GPS light is on and the green symbol light up on the screen when I take the pictures.
Does anyone else have the same problem?

The EXIF data should have that. COuld it be the program you are using to read the EXIF data doesn't understand or show the GPS info (or is it just dumping it).
I haven't played with the GPS photo much, but I did find that Picasaweb properly handles GPS EXIF tags now. I use a free program called Shozu (Shozu.com) that after you take a pic will upload your pic to the web, send it via email, post it in blog, etc.. I have it setup to send mine to Picasaweb, and after turning on the EXIF processing in Picasaweb on my account, my pics show the GPS info.
So make sure you are on teh GPS Photo setting of the Camera software (you won't get GPS tags in any other format), then maybe try uploading the pics to Picasaweb (you can create a free account at picasaweb.google.com). If you try this, remember to turn on the EXIF settings first.

Thanks mfrazzz
Since posting this I have checked the photos generated by the kaiser using Exif Reader (which is really neat by the way, no installation needed and tells you just what you need). There is GPS data there:
GPS Informtion
GPSVersionID : 2,2,0,0
GPSLatitudeRef : S
GPSLatitude : 32 3XX6 [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 151 XX31 [DMS]
GPSAltitudeRef : Sea level
GPSAltitude : 0/1 meters
GPSTimeStamp : 02:01:28
GPSMapDatum : WGS-84
GPSProcessingMethod : HYBRID-FIX
GPSDateStamp : 2007:12:09
The problem I am having is reading that data in Picasa on the PC, or on the web. I copy the images from my Phone over the USB to my desktop and check the Exif data, all appears good. When I drag the pictures into Picasa from the desktop and right click on properties there is no geo data there. I wonder if there is some intermittent problem as this technique has worked a few times in the past.
A picture that did import correctly has different Exif data to the one above:
GPS Informtion
GPSVersionID : 0,0,2,2
GPSLatitudeRef : S
GPSLatitude : 32 4XX0 [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 151 1XX7 [DMS]
GPSAltitudeRef : Sea level
GPSAltitude : 0/1 meters
Quite a bit missing, interesting.

Update
Just found this on the picasa forum, and sure enough it works
"http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=75179
I have fixed some of my photos using exiftool (http://
www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/):
exiftool <foldername> -r -GPSVersionID=2.2.0.0
Where <foldername> is the folder where the affected photo files are,
not that this command will set GPSVersionID to 2.2.0.0 for ALL files
within the folder specified in <foldername> recursevly (that means
includding all subfolders within the <foldername>). Having a backup is
recommended. After running that, all of my pics showed up in Picasa
just fine."
The odd thing is that the GPSVersionID tag already seems to be 2.2.0.0 in the images created by the kaiser. Perhaps there is a space at the end??

I've been messing with the GPS Photo function and I'm trying it with Picasaweb and Shozu as mentioned above. I took 5 photos this weekend. The first was just testing, the other 4 were at the park with my family. Between taking the first and the other 4, I changed the camera setting to show the timestamp when the photo was taken. Today I installed Shozu and uploaded all five pics - only the first pic contains any GPS data that Picasaweb has managed to interpret. The last 4 show as blank.
Do you guys have the timestamp set to be shown on the picture? I'm just trying to figure out what might have affected it. The file location is the same, as is the resolution.
I'll try another pic tonight and let you know.

mariom said:
Do you guys have the timestamp set to be shown on the picture? I'm just trying to figure out what might have affected it. The file location is the same, as is the resolution.
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No, I haven't ever turned that on. I also seem to get the same random luck when importing the photos with the GPS Exif data. I think this is more of a problem with Picasa as the pictures I take do have the geo data attached. It might be a simple string mismatch. I guess looking at the Exif protocol would be the next step. Checking the images that do work against the ones that don't so far hasn't thrown much light on it for me.
If I get time I will do some more work on it today.

GPS Photo

This seems like a feature with much potential, but I am starting to see why HTC shipped it disabled.
I took some photos earlier (in the GPS-Photo mode) and had a good look at the co-ordinates it was attaching in the EXIF data.
From the EXIF data;
GPSLatitudeRef : N
GPSLatitude : 51 1957 [DMS]
GPSLongitudeRef : E
GPSLongitude : 0 621 [DMS]
And the picture was actually taken here (in proper DMS format);
51 19'57"N 0 6'21"W
So as you can see, the longitude ref. is wrong for a start, and the formatting seems to be fairly non-standard in the EXIF data.
When you load these images into a program like flickr, it manages with the formatting but the Long. ref is an obvious problem. In all the photo's I've uploaded it has been consistently wrong.
Does anyone have any pointers to any patches or fixes? Alternatively, does anyone know of a standalone program that will work with the camera and append the EXIF data itself?
Cheers guys!

Locr GPS Photo for mobile might be just what you are looking for...
http://www.locr.com/clients/downloads.php

Is there a way to upload these pictures into google earth or something?

GPS tuner 5.2b zooming problems

Hi im am using gpstuner and love it. i have 1 problem though.
when i use googe sat images and zoom in no new and more detailed picture is loaded with hspda. just the default zoom level is loaded and presented on screen but it gets to blurry when zoomed in .
Does anyone have a clue ????

Try to zoom in more before trying to download new sat maps..(when select another type of map)..then switch to sattelite map and it will download a detailed map

Unfortunately that does not work. When i zoom to 4.6 metres in blanco map and then switch to google sat my hsdpa turns on. As soon as the picture pops up it says 76.x metres. Whatever i do it wont go lower than 76.x metres.

Anyone

Does it work with any of the other map options? I've not tried using the downloaded maps option in GPS Tuner yet, I'll give it a go and see if I get the same results you get.
EDIT: I tried the google sat image on mine, and when I zoomed in to 38 feet elev. it downloaded a new map and set me back up to 150 feet. I was then able to zoom in again, but the image didn't refresh so it was a bit blurry but still fine for me.

Yup thats what i mean. I supose its a bug or flaw in gpstuner. If someone manages to get a detailed map behond 150 feet or 87 m i like to know how

maybe is a google's limitation to not google-sw

Yup that could be.
But the pictures are there to download. if u can download 75m pictures you can also download 5m pictures. THe data is available on the net i supose. GPSTuner just does not send a reload trigger when zooming by the looks of it.
But again you could be right that google forbids the use of the higher zoom data to promote their own navigation products. I like to know if its a bug or a copy rights thing though

...Now that i'm thinking... TrackyPRO allow an accurate zooming, or i am wrong?

I never used that program ..... is it any good ?

Yup i downloaded the latest trail of trackypro and it works perfectly with zooming (AND its stores the downloaded maps and the storage card). Must be a fbug in gpstuner .
By the looks of it i think i buy trackypro and quit on GPS tuner.

Yes but GPSTuner is the best ;D

Diamond and Geotag?

The Diamond and geotag my pictures.
Is this possible ?
And how ?
i looked at the registry tweak
HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\P9« DWORD-entry »Enable« to 1.
But on the P9 is already something on, better not change this i think it's has something to do with video.
So is there a other way or tweak for my diamond to geotag ?
P,s; The GPS works like the best iv'e ever had.

I saw in camera settings the menu - add GPS position to foto ...

Where ?
aragornol said:
I saw in camera settings the menu - add GPS position to foto ...
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Sorry but not in my camera setteings ?
Where is it at yourse ?
not in the menu, and not in advanced options ?

P10 instead of P9 in the registry needs to be set to 1

Yes thanx it works
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P10 instead of P9 in the registry needs to be set to 1
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Thank you this works !!!
Great tip.

so I enabled geotagging and took some pictures using the GPS Photo mode. I tried uploading them to Flickr and tried using Google Earth to show the locations, but none have worked so far. Could someone shine some light on this one for me? Thanks. P.

did you soft reset?^^
just covering the basis until someone else helps you =p

I tried that too, and I got the same result: not geotagged photos. I guess that what we have to do is use a tracking software that logs the GPS position, as discussed in the forum for another HTC phones, so then we can "mix" the tracking log and the photos, to find out the position where each photo was taken.
Anyway, as I have no experience geotagging photos automatically I'm not sure at all what app would be useful... I guess I have to investigate

geotagging works fine for me... maybe when you upload them to flicker you lose the gps data....
i tried a software called iTag ang i can see mu picture in google earth

You have to have a gps program open though don't you before the tag is applied to the photo? At least I've found unless I have igo, tomtom or whatever open the "initialising gps" never goes away when I choose GPS picture.
Is there another way to do it?
Cheers

peterc_1 said:
so I enabled geotagging and took some pictures using the GPS Photo mode. I tried uploading them to Flickr and tried using Google Earth to show the locations, but none have worked so far. Could someone shine some light on this one for me? Thanks. P.
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I had troubles too getting Flickr to auto geotag the GPS photos i took with my Diamond, but i found out what the problem was.
First You have to give Flickr permission to import the GPS data from your photos: go to http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy and change the setting.
Next, You have to use the upload application(Flickr Uploadr) when you upload your GPS photos. When you have uploaded your photos, go to Flickr > Organize > Map and click on the newly uploaded pictures and Flickr will automatically place the pictures on the map according to the coordiantes it reads from the EXIF data. It will only work if You use the application.

Ramzidk said:
I had troubles too getting Flickr to auto geotag the GPS photos i took with my Diamond, but i found out what the problem was.
First You have to give Flickr permission to import the GPS data from your photos: go to http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy and change the setting.
Next, You have to use the upload application(Flickr Uploadr) when you upload your GPS photos. When you have uploaded your photos, go to Flickr > Organize > Map and click on the newly uploaded pictures and Flickr will automatically place the pictures on the map according to the coordiantes it reads from the EXIF data. It will only work if You use the application.
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Yes, but I'd like it to send stright away from my TD, and then Flickr says the best way is to E-mail them and then it won't work. Even with the on;ine app from my PC: "We couldn't find anything matching your criteria."...any other option anyone (to get it done automaticly)

ericsson68 said:
You have to have a gps program open though don't you before the tag is applied to the photo? At least I've found unless I have igo, tomtom or whatever open the "initialising gps" never goes away when I choose GPS picture.
Is there another way to do it?
Cheers
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I have the exact same problem... is there a way to solve it? Or is the phone defective?
Thanks!

Flickr problem
Diamond is able to GeoTag my picture and ACDSee shows me that it containts GPS Location data. I finally found GeoTagged pictures in the folder "My POI".
I have enabled EXIF Location import in Flickr (Privacy settings).
But when I upload to Flickr it will not import any EXIF information from my GeoTagged pictures... even when the picture is taken is not imported any more. None GeoTagged pictures still import EXIF information... Any ideas?
Regards, Tor Anders

I have the same problems, it seems like both Flickr and Picasa does not understand the geotag that the Diamond creates. Makes you wonder what application HTC had in mind for this - has anyone been able to use the geotagged HTC photos for anything?

FLICKR Geotag
toralux said:
Diamond is able to GeoTag my picture and ACDSee shows me that it containts GPS Location data. I finally found GeoTagged pictures in the folder "My POI".
I have enabled EXIF Location import in Flickr (Privacy settings).
But when I upload to Flickr it will not import any EXIF information from my GeoTagged pictures... even when the picture is taken is not imported any more. None GeoTagged pictures still import EXIF information... Any ideas?
Regards, Tor Anders
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did you upload the pictures with the web upload?

When it comes to Flickr I have tried both web upload and their "Uploadr" application for Windows. Does not work, even after enabling EXIF data does anything show up ...

geotag
hmm thats weird...Flickr has no problems placing my tagged pics on the right place when i drag them in on the map, but only when i use the web application....

Does tha map place it in the right place or is it really you who is placing them? I got the impression that Flickr would automatically move them to the map?

no i just drag them in some random place far away from where they are taken, and the map places them on the right place automatically

[APP] Image Map (Plus) 2.1 -[R]- 21 JAN 2012 [V][U] 2.1

Image Map is the first fully functional EXIF editor and viewer. It is also a fun application that allows you to easily visualize all your photos on a world map. Image Map main screen starts by reading GPS location information from the image EXIF data and pinpointing the location of each image on a map. For this to work, make sure you selected ‘Include location info in pictures you take’ option by using PICTURES+CAMERA settings.
Additionally this app integrates into your phone Pictures Hub and acts as a powerful and easy to use EXIF editor. In addition to location information you can find out about the model and make of the digital camera used to take the picture, date, exposure, f-stop and other useful info. Exchangeable image file format (EXIF) is a standard that specifies ancillary tags used by digital cameras, scanners and other systems handling image files. Not all pictures carry EXIF data, but if they do Image Map can show this information and if GPS location info is embedded too – Image Map can map it! You can also use Image Map to edit many EXIF fields, change or add location info to other pictures (including downloaded from Internet) and rename photos stored on your phone. This free version has a limit on number of pictures you can save, so make sure to check Image Map Plus too. Image Map Plus has no ads and allows unlimited edits.
This new version has a few significant bug-fixes and improvements:
1. Ability to rename any photo saved on the phone (even without editing EXIF).
2. Integration with GPS.
3. Localization into Russian.
4. Bug-fixes around some special cases of EXIF format.
Download Image Map (for free): http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=f6d38972-f00b-4a25-b6aa-530dcce8b996
Download Image Map Plus (free trial): http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=100bb724-2c49-4ef5-bd19-0a0f3ca8b818
If you want to know more about Image Map please check out one of the following (video) reviews online:
http://youtu.be/dNgJ4mfZML4
http://www.wpxbox.com/image-map-plus-exif-editor-wp/
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/image-map-for-windows-phone-7-rename-photos-view-edit-exif-data/
http://wmpoweruser.com/image-map-and-image-map-plus-first-exif-editor-for-windows-phone-7/