SKLund
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There are some really snappy photog's in this forum and with that in mind, y'all know all about your EXIF and metadata. Heck these days if you have a cell phone, you are a photographer. With cell phones and some regular cameras, you probably have a GPS enabled. This means of course that your EXIF data is embedded with coordinates if the GPS signal is strong enough.
...Therein lies the potential problem. In this forum and elsewhere, are photos of rare, endangered, and precious artifacts that would be better obscured in location rather then exposed. Exposure means potential destruction. That is why I am posting this. It's easy to forget that the picture of the really cool thing can lead to bad things happening to it.
If you have a cell phone of GPS enabled camera, consider turning that feature off or perhaps purging or editing that data out. I won't get into the methods for doing so but there are plenty apps that do either. Do these things and keep the joy of discovery intact.
...Therein lies the potential problem. In this forum and elsewhere, are photos of rare, endangered, and precious artifacts that would be better obscured in location rather then exposed. Exposure means potential destruction. That is why I am posting this. It's easy to forget that the picture of the really cool thing can lead to bad things happening to it.
If you have a cell phone of GPS enabled camera, consider turning that feature off or perhaps purging or editing that data out. I won't get into the methods for doing so but there are plenty apps that do either. Do these things and keep the joy of discovery intact.
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