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ExifTool => Developers => Topic started by: evilaro on October 15, 2012, 11:18:13 AM

Title: Coordinates of a celular phone
Post by: evilaro on October 15, 2012, 11:18:13 AM
Hi:

I am obtaining the coordinates using

-GPSPosition
A friend sent me a .MOV video of his celular phone
it contains the coordinates... but with this tag

-GPSCoordinates-spa-ES

No problem to work with it, but...

Then I feel this is not very general  ES for Spain, makes my code only valid for Spain
and I do not even know  what this -spa- means... if another phone manufacturer will have another code.

Is there a more general way to get ALL GPS

Thanks

Emilio


Title: Re: Coordinates of a celular phone
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 15, 2012, 12:22:01 PM
I can see how that could be a pain.  I wonder why they localized the GPSCoordinate information.  Oh well, there are a number of ways you can extract all GPS information:

exiftool "-gpscoordinates*" FILE - extract GPSCoordinates in any language

exiftool "-gps*" FILE - extract all GPS information

exiftool -location:all FILE - extract all location information

- Phil
Title: Re: Coordinates of a celular phone
Post by: evilaro on October 15, 2012, 06:58:32 PM
Phil:
I also wonder why they would do it. ?????

Thanks all the 3 cases work...
But then I am not understanding..
I looked at the Exif and at the Tags that the file contained
the tag that starts with GPS so GPS* will do the trick.

But there is no "location"   ... so how can it find the coordenates ???

Thanks

Emilio
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Quote from: Phil Harvey on October 15, 2012, 12:22:01 PM
I can see how that could be a pain.  I wonder why they localized the GPSCoordinate information.  Oh well, there are a number of ways you can extract all GPS information:

exiftool "-gpscoordinates*" FILE - extract GPSCoordinates in any language

exiftool "-gps*" FILE - extract all GPS information

exiftool -location:all FILE - extract all location information

- Phil
Title: Re: Coordinates of a celular phone
Post by: Phil Harvey on October 16, 2012, 06:41:39 AM
"Location" isn't a tag name, it's a group name.

- Phil