The State of GPS Data from Mobile Devices
Most of the mobile devices today support GPS geo tagging. In fact most of them come bundled with navigation software that uses GPS and therefore all the pictures and (maybe) videos can be geo tagged. But as expected different vendors come with different support and formats.
iPhone OS comes with geotagging both on video and image files, while the latest Android and Symbian (the Nokia main OS for smartphones) can geo tag only images.
Even more – until recently Symbian didn’t support any geotagging before the installation of an additional software – such as Location Tagger . So generally the things are quite simple:
- iPhone OS geotags both video and image files;
- Android geotags only images;
- Symbian geotags only images – and on some devices this is possible only after installing a software;
This is in breve the state of mobile device geotagging! Continue reading Reading GPS Latitude and Longitude from Image and Video Files