where is the GEO location info?

I cannot seem to find where the geo location info is located on a pic. It is not showing up under picture information in iPhoto, or on the iPhone. Any help?

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MacBook Pro 2.0 ghz / iBook g4/ Mac Mini 1.47, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jul 11, 2008 5:19 PM

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Jul 12, 2008 5:01 AM in response to Kenneth Davis

Yes, it's in the photo info. On a Mac, you can see it by selecting the photo, then hitting command-I (or right clicking and selecting "Show Photo Info." There are two fields near the bottom for "GPS Latitude" and "GPS Longitude."

Note that this also works on the first gen iPhone -- when I launched the camera, it asked whether Camera could use my current location info, then it tagged the photo I took.

However, I don't know yet how to use this data -- as a previous poster said, Flickr doesn't seem to know where that picture came from. When I view the photo in Flickr, the EXIF info still contains fields named "Latitude" and "Longitude" with the same data as shown in iPhoto, but Flickr can't put the photo in the right place on the map.

Jul 12, 2008 5:19 AM in response to Kenneth Davis

Still not working on Flickr, but just noticed that when I look at the info in iPhoto, it (correctly) places me in the Western hemisphere, but in Flickr, the longitude info has the same value, but in the Eastern hemisphere.

Just a guess, but lots of geo programs (like Google Maps) use + and - to indicate east and west. Since I'm in the Western hemisphere, Google says my house is at -71 longitude. Maybe Apple and Flickr don't use the same format?

Jul 13, 2008 12:26 PM in response to The Zach

For me, the geo info stays in the photo info when I upload to Flickr using either the web to upload, or using the FFXporter iPhoto plug-in. However, the E/W is still flipped for me...

MacWorld has a discussion of this problem. I'm still not sure it's an iPhone problem, since the info looks right to me right up until it gets to Flickr. MacWorld suggests that using AirMe to upload to Flickr directly from the phone maintains the geo info correctly -- there's a link in the article, but I haven't tried it yet.

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