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What good is "Geo Tagging" ? I know the iPhone uses it to show you where the picture was taken but I can't find the lat long info. So what else is it good for?

--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Brent <flapdoodle@...> wrote:
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> I'm with you, Bill. I will not use an iPhone camera app that does not have
> Geo Tagging. As far as privacy goes, I found a book printed by AT&T in my
> driveway the other day that had my name, address, and phone number in it. I
> sure hope they didn't give it to everyone. They will be able to see where I
> live.
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> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@...>wrote:
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> > Not sure how this is news, "Geo Tagging" of photos has been a feature since
> > iPhone OS 1
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 19:31, renegade600 <renegade600@...<renegade600%40yahoo.com>>
> > wrote:
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> > > just ran across the following article about how the iphone and other
> > camera
> > > phones are giving away your location in the pictures you take.
> > >
> > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010809-83.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related
> > >
> > >
> > > quote:
> > >
> > > NEW YORK--Be warned: If you take a snapshot with your iPhone or other
> > > camera-enabled gadget, it may divulge more information about you than
> > your
> > > photographic abilities.
> > >
> > > At the Next HOPE hacker conference here on Friday, a security researcher
> > > demonstrated how he scanned over 2.5 million photo links posted to
> > Twitter
> > > and extracted exact latitude and longitude coordinates embedded in over
> > > 65,000 photos -- typically without the user's knowledge.
> > >
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> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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