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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
It's enshitification in action.
Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP
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@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic (I take a lot of photos for iNaturalist and reference photos for OpenStreetMap editing, so I'm constantly turning GPS on for those, and then back off for personal photos, and sometimes I forget.)
@KelsonV
I use the OsmAnd app to take waypoint photos (with GPS info) for iNaturalist. These shots don't get uploaded to Google Photos unless I want them to. I usually copy them to my Download folder for later uploading to iNat.
So I could turn off GPS in the Photo app, and keep personal and iNat shots separate.
https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/audio-video-notes/#create-waypoints
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic
@sohkamyung @ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic I should give that a try! I use Vespucci for OSM, and it's similar in that it saves photos to its own folder, but it uses the default camera app, so again I have to turn GPS on before a mapping session and off again afterward.
@KelsonV
I tried using the OsmAnd Audio/Video plugin to take shots using the system photo app with Location Info disabled.
Photos I take directly using the photo app have no location info. But looks like location info is still available with shots taken using the OsmAnd plugin.
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic