
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.

Geotagging a photo means writing a latitude and longitude into the file itself. Here are the four steps, what the photo actually stores, and the one missing field that sends a correct coordinate to the wrong hemisphere.

The coordinates are already inside the file. Here is how to read them out, why the number arrives without its minus sign, and which tags tell you whether the location is a measurement or a guess.