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Re: [OM] Precise Picture Placement Predicament--I.E. GEOTAG

Subject: Re: [OM] Precise Picture Placement Predicament--I.E. GEOTAG
From: john hudson <om4t@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:13:54 -0400

On 11/06/18 02:31 PM, Moose  <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 11/6/2018 5:47 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
> >> From: "tOM Trottier" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >> <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
> >>
> >> Would be nice if EXIF also included compass direction of view!
> > WOULD be nice!
> >
> > But the only thing GPS knows about is a single location.
> >
> > They COULD put little magnetic compass in cameras, but I don’t know of 
> > anyone doing that
> 
> You didn't read the whole thread before answering?
> 
> > , even on phones
> 
> Yes, phones have compasses, at least iPhones and Google phones. And they put 
> the direction in which they were pointed 
> when a pic was taken in EXIF.
> 
> > , although I don’t keep up with phone tech.
> 
> Clearly not, as phones with compasses go back to the Google G1, in 2008, and 
> the iPhone 4 in '09 or'10.
> 
> Why post an answer when you know you don't know?
> 


Hey .......... be kind to the man; he hasn't gotten around to reading Donald 
Rumsfeld's magnum opus :-)

jh


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> Puzzled Moose
> 
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