new jersey geographer » photos http://njgeo.org GIS and planning in New Jersey Wed, 09 May 2012 13:03:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 More on Apple’s mishandling of geotagged photos http://njgeo.org/2010/07/05/more-on-apples-mishandling-of-geotagged-photos/ http://njgeo.org/2010/07/05/more-on-apples-mishandling-of-geotagged-photos/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:02:11 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=293 Continue reading →]]> In my previous post, I claimed that iPhoto was the culprit behind the mangling of the GPS coordinates embedded in my photographs. The problem likely lies in the Core Image library used throughout Mac OS X.
To see if other image editing applications exhibited the same geotagging flaw, I used a jpg right off of my camera and rotated and saved it in Preview, Apple’s default image viewer. This demonstration shows that the method used to write .jpg files alters the GPS coordinates stored in the EXIF metadata.(...)
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