{"id":10498,"date":"2016-01-28T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10498"},"modified":"2017-01-30T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T05:28:21","slug":"checking-the-gps-location-accuracy-of-your-photos-part-twp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10498","title":{"rendered":"Checking the GPS Location Accuracy of Your Camera, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wat Buddharatanaram, Buddhist Temple, Keller Texas<\/p><\/div>\n

The fastest way to check location accuracy your camera’s GPS information is to take a photo at a known location that you can pinpoint on a map.<\/p>\n

Posted Jan. 28, 2016. Updated Jan. 30, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Drop the camera’s GPS coordinates into Google Earth (this article will show you how<\/a>) to check out the location of the photo based on the GPS information. Compare that to where you really were when you took the photo. It is as simple as that.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example. I took photos of this carving (photo above) with an iPhone (for the GPS) information, and a DSLR. This is the iPhone photo.<\/p>\n

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GPS Location, Buddhist Temple<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I checked the GPS data for the photo using Photoshop (from the menu choose File > File Info > GPS Data). You can do this with most any image editing software that will let you view the metadata in your photos.<\/p>\n

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Google Earth. Yellow Pin: GPS Coordinates. Red X: Actual photo location. Click to get a larger version.<\/p><\/div>\n

I dropped the GPS coordinates into Google Earth to check the location. The yellow pin in this graphic shows the location for the GPS coordinates capture by my iPhone. But I was actually right below the carving at the bottom steps that lead up to the entrance to the temple. I marked my actual location with a red X. I was about 15-20 feet east of the GPS coordinates. For reasons described in Part One, this amount of error isn’t that unusual.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Checking the GPS Location Accuracy of Your Camera, Part One<\/a><\/p>\n

Using Google Earth to Find the Name of a Mountain (and How to Get GPS Info Into Google Earth)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Why and How of Adding GPS Information To Your Photos<\/a><\/p>\n

GPS accuracy information at GPS.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fastest way to check location accuracy your camera’s GPS information is to take a photo at a known location that you can pinpoint on a map. Posted Jan. 28, 2016. Updated Jan. 30, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photo-locations","category-photographs","category-using-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10498"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14745,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498\/revisions\/14745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}