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ExifTool => Bug Reports / Feature Requests => Topic started by: jidanni on May 09, 2018, 04:36:52 AM

Title: 253 m Below Sea Level? But I don't even know how to swim
Post by: jidanni on May 09, 2018, 04:36:52 AM
$ exiftool
says
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19OekHS9xfVy6ODxOqDvFvQelQQyVWsnX
is
GPS Altitude                    : 253 m Below Sea Level
when e.g., http://metapicz.com/ says it is Above Sea Level.
$ exiftool -ver
10.80
Title: Re: 253 m Below Sea Level? But I don't even know how to swim
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 09, 2018, 07:11:53 AM
Interesting.

This file contains an invalid value for GPSAltitudeRef.  0 is for above sea level, 1 is for below, and this file has a 2 which isn't allowed.  ExifTool interprets this effectively as not above sea level, which isn't necessarily incorrect.

- Phil