One user told me “move this to bug reports,” but I’m not at all sure this is a bug. So please pardon me if it is not. I’ve run into an issue that I don’t understand and am not sure how to fix it. On my smartphone running Android 10, when I add an observation via the iNat app (1.21.10) by choosing p…

[image] ciafre: I’m certain that I can’t find accuracy data associated with my photos if you’re not seeing an EXIF tag like GPSHPositioningError actually stored in your image file on your own device (or in your personal online storage), the only way accuracy will get onto your observation is …

When I said to move it I meant to edit the post and change what category it was in, not create a new post. I don’t really know how to explain the process, if it’s too complicated you can just delete the other post and keep this one. :man_shrugging:

How are you getting your photo into the app? Are you sharing from your gallery or are you starting in the iNat app and importing the photo?

But isn’t it ok and expected? Phone sometimes does record accuracy but mostly not, that’s why most phone observations lack accuracy.

tiwane, I am sharing from my gallery

I verified that the photos have accuracy using exif. What do you mean by “sometimes?”

In my similar case, in iNaturalist, when prompted to choose photos, I select Photo Gallery to choose pics, and proceed as directed by the website. The photos load, but the metadata does not, despite displaying the message ‘loading metadata’. I compared my iPhone settings to Carrie’s ( @carrieseltzer )…

Thanks. If you start in the iNaturalist app, tap on the Plus button and select “Choose Image” you can import photos that way. If you use that method, is GPS accuracy included? Can you please send one of the photos to help@inaturalist.org ?

I have the same issue, whether I start from the Gallery or from the iNat app.

Bumping this thread to understand if this is still an issue with Android, in the light of this other thread: [image] A reminder: accuracy radiuses on your locations are important I just realized almost all of my observations have no accuracy value set – Android phones don’t seem to encode accura…

Can confirm that this is still an issue. None of my observations have accuracy data- I typically upload my photos via the app, but those I upload through the website also lack accuracy data.

Bug? GPS accuracy not added to observation on Android

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Bug? GPS accuracy not added to observation on Android

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