I have a bunch of pictures that I took on my phone camera app. It has the location in the exif data, but I don’t know how to get the location into iNaturalist app. Unfortunately, when I look at the “details” in my gallery (not iNaturalist) it often shows a very imprecise street address. The reason …

I just solved my own problem. I have to import the first picture by itself, so the app is only dealing with that location. Afterwards, I can import any additional pictures all at once. This is because even though the pictures are taken in the same place, the exact coordinates vary slightly.

Just import the photo in the app or in the website. Both should be able to handle standard coordinates in EXF. You can try and decide not to coninue in the app or the website by not saving the observation. If you did, did the coordinates not occur automatically in the observation?

The coordinates didn’t import. the location is blank. I did this in the app.

How to get GPS coordinates

General

Topic		Replies	Views
Enter GPS coordinates Feature Requests mobile-app	14	3143	January 2, 2026
How to automatically apply iPhone GPS to camera photos without GPS ability General	8	598	June 28, 2025
iPhone pic to inaturalist photo General	8	2041	October 7, 2020
How to set the location on images for iNaturalist General question	14	2497	November 22, 2019
Location Data in Observations Taken Outside the INat App General	14	862	August 18, 2023

How to get GPS coordinates

Related topics