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Re: Taking a picture with Android or iphone reveals your location! WTH!
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Originally Posted by Stuart
Nothing new.. The iPhone has supported it since it had GPS. Also, any recent (say within the last 5 years) version of iPhoto) will actually let you view the location of any photo you have taken (as long as the image is tagged with the data) using Google Maps.
It's actually quite a handy feature that's also offered by a lot of professional cameras. Ben gives the example of how it could be useful to a person, but even companies find it useful. Imagine working in a busy news room, and you are asked to find footage showing a desert road in (say) Libya, but you have thousands of clips of Desert road (all of which probably look very similar).
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Or being in a city you don't know. Take a snap of your hotel, and then later use the geodata combined with navigation to get you back to the hotel.
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