Igor, I also remove location for most of my pics on flickr and instagram.
However, I have learned to much appreciate the GPS for reporting to the
Dutch website of nature observations (waarneming.nl).
Here you can report animals, flowers/plants and mushrooms.
An AI program analyzes the identity on your picture and provides a
percentage of accurary of its (or your) determination for its validity.
If uncertain, there are experts looking at your picture to provide comments.
Also the program automatically retrieves the location from the GPS
coordinates and pins it on the map so you don't have to estimate it
afterwards.
Personally I find it unsatisfactory to show somewhere a pic of flower,
insect or mushroom and not knowing what it is, so I like this reporting.
There are already 76 million observations for this Dutch program and
more than 100,000 users.
Of course for some very rare species the location can be hidden so
people do not rush to this spot!
No doubt similar programs exists in other countries.
Many good compact camera's do have GPS built-in, but strange enough not
many DSLR's and MILC's.
Henk
Op 2020-10-27 om 16:10 schreef Igor PDML-StR:
Hi All!
In the K3-III thread, people have been disappointed about the lack of
the GPS capability in the new APS flagship.
So, that got me thinking: how do people use GPS in their cameras?
What are the "use cases"?
I can see that people using astrotracers might need GPS. Also, if you
are taking travel photographs, it might help you to create a "photo
journal/map" of your trip.
But what about outside of those cases?
K-1 is the first dedicated camera (i.e. outside of the cell phone)
that has a GPS capability, but I have not turned it on yet.
(I was thinking about doing that during the trip to Yellowstone/Grand
Teton parks, but I didn't have good spare batteries on hand, so, I was
preserving the batteries, as one day I got very close to empty.)
Also, all my export presets in LR have "remove location" from the
photos, - to avoid some unnecessary accidental exposure with the
photos posted to the web. (I am not a celebrity, and not being
stalked, but it is just a general privacy precaution.)
Cheers,
Igor
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