smart phone camera photos

[dartag]

check this out.  your secret spot may not be so secret.  Sure glad I have a dumb phone.



http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

[mikesmiph]

freaky

[Victor Cerabone]

I have a smartphone and I love geotagging.  I purposely take pics of fish with the location so I have a record of where I caught them.

This is dangerous if you don't know about the feature.  I have a pal that LOVES to send out pics via email of his catches on LSC.  He is also very secretive about his spots.  I noticed geotagging data was embedded in his pics.

 

[MadWags]

Well shut my mouth, strike some matches, %R&(# a duck and see what hatches

[Dan]

I recognize that Zonaism. It quacked me up.

[mikesmiph]

Steven Tyler said it on American Idol the other night too. Getting rather popular.

[BryanP]

My blackberry has a setting in the camera menu to disable  geotagging.  In fact, it's default set to "disabled".

[Got Fish??]

 I guess I'm safe, I kept my two soup cans with strings. My phone is so old and plane jane. My kids tease me all the time. I have a flip Video camera, It's pretty sweet, and the only way to go . It is not much bigger than my soup can.

[Cheetam]

Default on my Hero is disabled.

[djkimmel]

I forget about it. But I seem to always be fishing someone elses' spot anyways

I saw one picture where it tagged me as Walpole Island. Guess that is kind of like Mitchell's Bay... if you can see it in the distance somewhere... that's where you were fishing!

[Revtro]

I decided to check into this a bit.  The good news is that it looks like some of the popular social networking sites scrub out the exif data, so you can't get coords and whatnot.  I'd be more concerned about posting geotagged photos on personal websites and such.

I also wanted to see if any of our photos here on GLB are geotagged (figured some guys would prefer that not to be the case).  Happily it looks like most of the photos on GLB contain no exif data at all.  I didn't find any photos that had any coordinates if they did have exif data.  It was mostly, camera make and info about the jpg itself.  So it looks like most of our stuff is pretty safe here at GLB from what I can tell.  In fact, I've been monkeying around online for a little while today after installing a couple of Firefox extensions that read exif data and I still have yet to find a pic with coordinates embedded in it.  Either I'm doing something wrong or it's not as widespread of a problem as it may appear.  But I will go make sure my iPhone has the geotagging feature turned off for the camera.

[Mike S.]

I didn't know anything about geotagging.  I checked my Blackberry after reading this post, and it has always been disabled.  Good news.  I always take pics of my fish, and send them to buddies to egg them on for being girls and not going fishing.

[Bender]

It is off on my phone, but it must have been on at one time. On the iPhone if you go to Photos you can look at either Albums or Places. Places shows a map of where the photos were taken. I can see where some of them were taken.

One of the GPS Apps I run lets you tag waypoints with a photo which I found really handy since I took a bunch of photos of the local lake when the water was down.

Edit: I don't know if I trust how accurate these are though. I found one of mine that has this info embedded:

Which shows GPS coords as:
which is several miles (and on a different lake) from the actual location which should have been .

[Waterfoul]

Wow... all my pictures have GPS coordinates attached / embedded.  I'm gonna have to change that begore I start taking pics of fish on the water!

[djkimmel]

We already have a database of some of your spots Waterfoul!

[MadWags]

Funny thing is that they are all fish markets.

[Waterfoul]

Funny thing is that they are all fish markets.

The funnier thing is I just got my smart phone and haven't taken any fishing pictures with it yet... unless you count the one time out on the Kalamazoo steelhead fishing.  So now you know where I shop. 

[ROI Outdoors]

My blackberry has a setting in the camera menu to disable  geotagging.  In fact, it's default set to "disabled".

Research in Motion knows what they are doing!  They should only call Blackberry's smart phones because they are smart to automatically disable features that are potentially harmful; all the other "smart phones" should be labeled "High IQ Underachieving Phones"..........

Although Geotagging could serve as a GPS backup in some instances as long as the photo's are kept privately.........Bryan could you get Hummingbird to intergrate geotagging into the graph so we could have pictures of the size of our catches for each coordinate right on our units?  That would be kind of sick!