Can Finder (More Information) display location coordinates in decimal format rather than in degrees, minutes and seconds? I cannot find an option to change this is OSX.
If this is because that is the format that the iPhone is encoding on the photos, where in iOS can location information be changed to the decimal format? I've search high and low and cannot find it anywhere!
Finder is converting the strings stored in the GPS metadata in the image to "friendly" coordinate formatting. If you open the same image in Preview, its Inspector does the same thing with that GPS metadata. If you want the decimal strings, you will need to capture them by using the Spotlight mdls utility in the Terminal with the image:
mdls -name kMDItemLatitude -name kMDItemLongitude ./IMG_0321.JPG | awk '{print $3}'
Finder is converting the strings stored in the GPS metadata in the image to "friendly" coordinate formatting. If you open the same image in Preview, its Inspector does the same thing with that GPS metadata. If you want the decimal strings, you will need to capture them by using the Spotlight mdls utility in the Terminal with the image:
mdls -name kMDItemLatitude -name kMDItemLongitude ./IMG_0321.JPG | awk '{print $3}'
There are no user controls that I am aware of that can change the GPS presentation on the macOS Get Info panel. I suspect that Apple is using some of the more obscure Objective-C/Swift functionality to extract the image coordinates and convert them to what you see.
My question wasn't on how to convert coordinates from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal format, but where to change the way that Finder displays that information when using the option "Get Info" on the image file.
I understand that this can be done, as I was able to find a screenshot of Finder displaying coordinates in decimal format.
However, looking at the raw EXIF data from my iPhone photos, I can see that GPS data is being recorded in degrees/minutes/seconds. Perhaps Finder can only display in the format encoded in the EXIF. If that's the case, then the question is - where in iOS14 can we find/select the format options for GPS data?
View/record location (GPS) coordinates in decimal format