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Offline Scunner

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Photo Location Question
« on: February 28, 2016, 18:39:19 PM »
Genuine question...

I took a couple of photos of the Alps en route to Dalaman from the plane. A while later I noticed that in the properties it gave a location - when I searched it was indeed a village in the Alps.

But there was no 3G, no wifi at all on the plane How could the phone have known the location?

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Re: Photo Location Question
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2016, 19:16:06 PM »
Geo tagging.  You must have had "location" enabled somewhere - your phone tags all pics with lat & long coordinates via the GPS.

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Re: Photo Location Question
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2016, 19:22:48 PM »
Ah right, I assumed that needed wifi or 3G to work on a phone.

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Re: Photo Location Question
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2016, 19:30:01 PM »
It's scary stuff, especially the Android version.  Tracks your movements to such a level I've seen it show me going from one side of the house to the other.

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Re: Photo Location Question
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2016, 20:15:53 PM »
Glad I'm still using semaphore for local calls and carrier pigeon for longer distance.

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Re: Photo Location Question
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2016, 21:05:36 PM »
It's the voices in your head.




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