See this observation of mine: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/72205394. It was taken with the camera of the iNaturalist app on my iPhone. Click on the “i” at the bottom of the photo. Information is displayed. That information lacks anything about the model of camera used, which I hoped would be “iPhone” or something along those lines. Why is the missing? This would be useful information.
Not sure why, but you can’t search any of those items of photo metadata within iNat anyway. Here are all your iOS obs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?oauth_application_id=3&place_id=any&subview=grid&verifiable=any&user_id=dan_johnson
Observations from iOS, Android, or Seek apps
oauth_application_id=searches observations by the source of upload.
- &oauth_application_id=2 = iNaturalist Android app
- &oauth_application_id=3 = iNaturalist iOS app
- &oauth_application_id=333 = Seek app
The reason I was asking is some user had a question about the location of an observation, so I thought to look at the metadata to see if it was encoded, which would help confirm it might be correct. Is there a way to see where the location came from for an observation?
I don’t how to inspect photo metadata on iOS but if you import the photo to a laptop (say), you can readily inspect the metadata there.
If I understand correctly, all metadata is stripped when a photo is uploaded to iNat, but saved and kept separately. On the website it is possible to inspect the metadata of a photo by clicking the “i” icon, but the image itself does not have it.
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The reason I was asking is some user had a question about the location of an observation, so I thought to look at the metadata to see if it was encoded, which would help confirm it might be correct. Is there a way to see where the location came from for an observation?
When I click Details under the map, it shows me the location, including latitude and longitude. Is that what was wanted?
Photos uploaded via the iOS app do only have a minimal amount of EXIF data with them. I made an issue here to see if we can include more metadata.
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No, that location on another observation was questionable as it was possibly hand entered. I wanted to see if the photo metadata might help clarify the issue.
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