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Post 01

What Is Geotagging? The Tags Behind a Located Photo

Geotagging is the act of storing a location inside a photo file itself. Here is exactly which EXIF tags hold it, and what happens to them when you upload.

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Post 02

How to Add Geotagged Photos to Google Earth

Dragging a geotagged photo onto Google Earth does nothing, because it never reads the file's GPS block. Here is what it does read, and how to give it that.