If you download or export these photos into another app from Google photos, Google photos will not embed their “approximation” data into the photo. Google only offers this location approximation for the purpose of viewing the location on the map (etc). In Google photos, if you click on a picture, go to info/properties etc to find the location of your picture on the map, if Google has indicated that location is approximate, it means that no geolocation data was embedded into the metadata for that photo when it was uploaded. When GPS signal is not available, Google approximates your location from your Wi-Fi and cellular connections. When I’ve had significant problems with this I found this to be the explanation: I might add that this may not be a problem with iNat. Is there some metadata flag that gets set when there is no Cell service that prevents iNaturalist app from auto-filling? Photos taken today are autofilling correctly.Īssuming I have a strong internet connection, are there reasons that I don’t understand that would cause the app to fail to autofill the Time / Location? e.g. I’ve only found this issue affecting photos taken that one day so far. Downloading those images on my computer and using a browser interface to upload them worked as I expected and the autofill was populated. I uploaded maybe 2 dozen of the photos and the autofill of the location / time worked as expected - but then for whatever reason - I started getting to certain unaltered photos that wouldn’t autofill the time / location in the Android app. Over this past weekend I took a few hundred photos in an area where I had no cell service on my phone, but the images still have the GPS tag and time so I planned to upload them later when I got home. I’m not sure if this is a bug, or some feature that I’m not fully understanding - but for the past year or two autofill has been working fine.
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