Location metadata on photographs
I take most of my photos on a Samsung Android phone, and its camera app often takes individual photos that are over 5 MB each, and there is no longer an option to take them at lower resolution. The full size photos contain location metadata, but as soon as I use an app such as Windows Photos to reduce the resolution of the photos I want to upload, all of the metadata gets wiped out, so none of my photos can appear on the photos layer of the Slow Ways route maps.
I am on a fairly low budget, so don't want to spend more than I have to, but I was wondering if you have tips on the best free or cheap resizing apps for Windows that preserve the metadata, preferably ones that allow bulk edits to be done quickly without an internet connection.
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That's a really interesting question. I'll ask the team and see if anyone has a suggestion.
Best wishes,
Cristie0 -
I’m afraid that this is a bit of a moot point Hugh. The photography layer has been removed (presumably replaced by the imagery/satellite layer) and so you can no longer view photos along the length of a route.
This has only happened in the last couple of months.
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Hi Lynn,
Oh, I didn't know that. When I look there is still a photo layer for a route. I found I could see them on Storom three. I might be missing something though, so please let me know if it's a different place that is no longer showing the images?
Hugh - we have had a couple of suggestions on what might work so I'll pop them here for you.
- https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-to-resize-a-photo-in-the-gallery-app-on-your-galaxy-phone/. The suggestion is to try a few and see but they felt that Samsung probably wouldn't strip the meta data out.
- https://riot-optimizer.com/ is a desktop programme that should work
Please let me know how you get on.
Best wishes,
Cristie0 -
Sorry Christie and Hugh - I was having a mini blindness! It’s at the bottom of the drop down legend. I was certain it was at the top!
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Thanks Lynn, that's grand. It could have changed so I thought I'd best check. Glad it's still there.
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Thanks Cristie. Will have a look at Riot Optimiser, maybe tomorrow as I have another set to process from today's walk. My preference is definitely for doing it on the Windows side because folder management is much easier.
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OK. I managed to create a set of reduced files that still contain the metadate (good) and they display the right way up in Windows. Unfortunately, when I uploaded them to my review they appear on the site upside down (see my review of Slemet 1). Maybe I have been using the phone camera upside down when in landscape mode - if so it will be a hard habit to break….
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This is the review: https://beta.slowways.org/Route/Slemet/5441#reviews
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To answer my own question, my work-round is to rotate the photos so they appear upside down in Windows - then they magically correct themselves when uploaded. I have now fixed the picture in the Slemet review.
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Thanks Hugh for persevering. So glad the meta-data is now working for you.
It would be interesting to know if anyone else has the issue around images upside down? Then that would let us know if it's something we can fix. Or maybe a setting on your phone camera? I don't know enough but maybe others on the forum do?
Best wishes,
Cristie0 -
I did notice that the photos that uploaded upside down were also upside down when uploaded to Twitter/X, so I suspect the problem is something that Windows does with auto-rotation, and it doesn't affect photos without metadata.
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Oh, that's really interesting to know it happens elsewhere too. Thanks for sharing.
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Adobe Lightroom can resize in items free / unpaid version.
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This sounds familiar, I think someone may have had a similar problem with upside down photos before. Perhaps after using a third party app to write notes / descriptions on photos. It was a long time ago though, not sure if it was ever resolved.
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