Check a photo for location data
Check one photo for location metadata: coordinates, hemisphere, altitude and timestamp, with malformed entries flagged rather than guessed.
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Questions people ask
- Why does photo GPS metadata matter?
- Because it is small, invisible and precise. A phone photo can carry coordinates to a few metres, and uploading it shares them with everyone the image reaches: albums, marketplaces, forums, employers. An audit before publishing is the same instinct as checking a document for personal data.
- Does the audit tell the tool where my photo was taken?
- The tool reads the coordinates and puts them in your result, nowhere else. It does not geocode, does not resolve the coordinates to an address or a place, and never contacts any map service. The numbers travel no further than your report.
- The audit says the file has no GPS. Is it safe to publish?
- There is no GPS metadata in the file, which is the specific thing this tool checks; it is not a guarantee about every other kind of embedded information, and the report says so plainly. Serial numbers, camera bodies and editing software tags are a different audit.
- What does "malformed" mean in the report?
- The file carries GPS tags, but at least one is not usable: a zero denominator in a coordinate, a hemisphere byte that maps to nothing, an altitude that cannot be read. Those entries are named per tag instead of being silently mapped to some nearby value, because a guessed coordinate is a wrong coordinate.
- How do I remove the location data after the audit?
- Use the image metadata scrubber: it rebuilds the photo from the pixels alone, which removes the GPS block along with every other embedded property. An audit that altered your file would defeat its own purpose, so this one only reads.
- What happens to my files?
- The upload is removed as soon as processing finishes; the report stays downloadable for about 10 minutes, then it is deleted automatically.