Image GPS Coordinates

[hin1129]

i am trying to look for the GPS coordinates for the image but it does not display on exiftool. (im simply just using the command "exiftool IMAGE.jpg")

what conditions it has to meet in order to get them stored in the first place?

E.G.:
the phone has to turn on the GPS while taking the pictures?

if the picture is sent from phone-A to phone-B, would you still be able to check the coordinates of the picture on phone-B with exiftool?

does it work with cloud files (pictures on icloud)? - (accessing the path of the icloud photos folder on the PC)

[StarGeek]

Exiftool will show just the GPS coordinates with
exiftool -GPS* IMAGE.jpg

If it doesn't show anything, then it's not there.

There are many reasons why they might not be there.  If the GPS is turned off, then there's no way for the camera to add them.  If it's from a social media site such as Facebook/Instagram, then it was stripped from the file, as these sites remove all metadata.  Sending an image through text re-encodes the image to make it smaller, so such data will be lost.

There are to many ways for GPS data not to be in the file.  Exiftool can only tell you if it exists or not.  Nothing can tell you why it isn't there.

[Happy Hobo]

There are many ways for GPS data not to be in the file.  Exiftool can only tell you if it exists or not.  Nothing can tell you why it isn't there.

Almost nothing :-)
Tags identifying the camera might reveal it was an iPad without GPS.