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Old Feb 24, 2018 | 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by From_Behind
Your phone is already set up for this. Here it is in my phone.




These are some of the awesome things I've that smartphones allow us to do. Contrary to what the senior citizen codgers insist, it's not all texting and video games. 😁
how does this work in an area w/ no cell service?
 
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Old Feb 24, 2018 | 06:22 PM
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Contemplating a 12,000 mile road trip across the country. I want to be able to take photos and at the end of the trip document where the pic is from. Know my memory will fail and I will not remember the location for each pic.

Anyone have any experience with how to solve this problem?
Sounds like a GoPro might help....or, Garmin makes this (below), though I have no experience w/ it.

 
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Old Feb 24, 2018 | 06:22 PM
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how does this work in an area w/ no cell service?
Smart phones have GPS chips. https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-sma...-with-internet
 
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Old Feb 24, 2018 | 07:11 PM
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Google is constantly asking me to change my location settings. Don't they gather enough information already?
One thing has nothing to do with the other. This location data is embedded in the image Metadata.
 
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how does this work in an area w/ no cell service?
It works just fine. As long as you don't have a Jitterbug, your phone gets location data via GPS.
 
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so for those of us who are luddites, what can i do with these pictures that have been geotagged? how can i 'see' this location in the picture?
 
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My wife takes tons of photos and we use to have same problem. Now she always take pics of road signs, park entrance signs or anything else that will mark where we are along the way. Then we can remember. Would be hard to do if your by yourself but take pics of anything that will jog your memory when you stop to take pictures. Then when you get home you can tag them and delete the reminder photos. You could also keep a journal of dates and times. All modern digital camera stamp the pictures with a date and time.
 
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Originally Posted by skratch
so for those of us who are luddites, what can i do with these pictures that have been geotagged? how can i 'see' this location in the picture?
Just look in the info or details of the image files, and the location info will be there.
 
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yes, am already aware but if thats the case, why dont people use phones for GPS's on cycles instead of buying Garmin products or the like? Its because there are still persistent issues with it. Without a data connection there's no map to project on (unless downloaded beforehand if one hops through those hoops). Also not possible to use POIs and navigate to them via phone GPS w/out a data connection.

Of course, if you're just driving around your own town it's probably not an issue, but like the OP is planning, I've done 10k tours and for large parts of it there was no cellular data available in many areas (mountains, desert etc), though my Garmin GPS worked fine in those locations.

Other issue w/ leaving a phones GPS on (at least for Android) is it leaves you open to being tracked.
 
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yes, am already aware but if thats the case, why dont people use phones for GPS's on cycles instead of buying Garmin products or the like?
Lots of people do. I know I do. My OL does. My friends are do. In fact, I don't know know a single person personally thats uses a dedicated GPS unit on a motorcycle.



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Its because there are still persistent issues with it. Without a data connection there's no map to project on (unless downloaded beforehand if one hops through those hoops). Also not possible to use POIs and navigate to them via phone GPS w/out a data connection.
It takes about 5 minutes to download an offline map. Not many hoops there.

QUOTE=F150HD;17123828]Other issue w/ leaving a phones GPS on (at least for Android) is it leaves you open to being tracked.
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By who? For what? ?
 
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