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Title: Altitude tag required when seting coordinates?
Post by: den on May 04, 2013, 01:49:02 AM

Hi,

On this page, https://exiftool.org/TagNames/GPS.html (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/GPS.html) is written that if coordinates are set, altitude has to be set as well. But what if the altitude is unknown? Can the two altitude tags not be omitted? Do I have to set it to 0? One of my cameras set the altitude always to just some thing over 20'000m...

Thanks!

Title: Re: Altitude tag required when seting coordinates?
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 04, 2013, 06:29:02 AM

It is not uncommon to have a missing altitude, so I wouldn't worry about this. Maybe I should change the documentation to soften the wording for altitude.

- Phil

Title: Re: Altitude tag required when seting coordinates?
Post by: den on May 05, 2013, 11:13:05 AM

Yea, I do take stuff literary ;-) Good to know. Thanks!

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