When adding images to Inat I wish to use the GPS for the images and don’t know how to do that.

Do you have GPS on your camera? Or not - like me? I add the location manually to a zoomed in satellite view of the map.

This sounds more like a general question than a bug report, and the category should likely be changed. If this is a bug report, please fill out the info in the first post so that folks can give more meaningful feedback/suggestions.

Basically you can geotag your pictures manually, looking at the map when you upload an observation; Or you can geotag your photos, manually or with some phone app that tracks your location during the time you took the pictures. The guide linked by craig-r is really good! take a look at that one.

Assuming that the poster wants to know how to associate GPS data with a photo observation: My simple and very effective (for me) solution is that I have a GPS app installed on my phone (I use Handy GPS after trialling other GPS apps. In the field I have the app open at all times - ensures that the…

Forgot to say that when I rename photos the location coordinates are always part of the name. Because the location photo is in the same file as the obs photos it is very convenient just to have the position photo in view so I can read off the coordinates when setting up the renaming process.

If you are using a mobile/cell phone you can use the above approach by screen-shotting the GPS screen right after you take the obs photos - yes, I know that the location is in the photo metadata, but it can be a hassle to locate that (depending on whether or not you are using a photo processing app …

How to use GPS data for the observation?

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0x4372616967 January 30, 2022, 8:51am 2

Does this help? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geotagging-photos/66 (or maybe you’re asking something different?)

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How to use GPS data for the observation?

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