I have photos taken with a camera. I often took an iPhone photo in the same location so I know the coordinates. If I upload the camera photo and then open “Edit Location”, I can’t figure out how to type in or cut and paste the coordinates into the search box. I can zero in on the map but it is te…

as far as i know, manually inputting coordinates in the iOS app – at least the current one, not the legacy one – is not possible. see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/manual-input-for-coordinates-on-ios-app-not-functioning/76679/2 . however, if you use the web upload screen (or the web edit or batch …

i can only comment about the web browser because that is the only way I work with uploading photos for iNat. I highly recommend that you use that route to do yours. When I am using an iPhone (11) photo for location, I upload that photo via the web browser, along with my plant/animal images for that…

one more thought is that it’s possible to keep a GPS track on your phone and then use that to geotag your photos before you upload them to iNaturalist. (and when you upload a geotagged photo, the system should use that as the location for your observation.) most of the major camera manufacturers sh…

I also use a camera that doesn’t have GPS, so I take an iPhone shot (or back-of-camera shot) for each subject or specific locality and later transfer all camera and phone images to my MacBook. In the Photos app on my MacBook, I copy the location of the iPhone photo (Image > Location > Copy location)…

I often use a camera with no GPS for my iNat photos. To avoid having to manually enter the location for each photo, I use a GPS app on my phone. It creates a file of where you walked and what time you were at each exact spot, called a GPX file. The idea is that you synchronise your GPX track with y…

I tend to take the “good” photos with my camera and another one with my phone. Download them all to my computer. And upload both the camera photos and the phone photo at the same time. Location sorted. As long as one photo in an observation has location data, iNat is happy.

I have a few cameras without GPS. Sometimes I take several photos, and before I start walking I take a few with my phone. When I upload them to iNat, I use my phone photos as a reference for the rough location (I se the accuracy to what I feel covers where the organism is. I figure it’s “good enough…

I take a picture of my camera after taking the photo if I know I wont be able to find the location later. Then I either put the camera photos onto my phone, or get the location pic onto my computer. Then when uploading the observation I include that photo initially, and it grabs the location! Then I…

This is a perfect setup, and it gives the best results with minimal effort. On Android, I would recommend Mendhak’s GPSLogger (stable and very battery efficient: I let it run in the background permanently so I ALWAYS have the GPX, never drains my battery…), and on the PC, I recommend GeotagNinja, w…

Thanks for suggesting that I use the web browser instead of the app. It seems like it will do what I need. I just figured out how to do geo-tagging with my camera and uploading through the web browser seems to be working. I need to go back to my old photos and try to use the iPhone data to edit t…

Editing location for photos taken with camera (no GPS)

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upupa-epops August 27, 2026, 1:22am 14

Just linking to this thread for reference, more examples of apps and programs to use for geotagging there: Geotagging Photos

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Editing location for photos taken with camera (no GPS)

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