Automatic image location detection

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This one has been a long time coming - if you upload an image that contains GPS information, we now automatically set the artwork location for you.

You might still need to tweak this (e.g. because the image was taken from across the street), but hopefully this makes adding new artworks a bit easier.

If you’re uploading images directly from your phone, you might need to select you want to share location data, as this is disabled by default for privacy reasons. On iPhone, you can do this by pressing Options when selecting your image.

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@st4nc4 it’s this you are looking for:)?

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This one is gunna make a lot of us camera users a bit jealous.
Good work guys!

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Nice improvement :wink:

Cheers

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Great update that was on the wishlist of many hunters :grinning_face:

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Great feature! Will make the SAC map more accurate for sure…

If I upload several pictures for one piece I assume it uses the first image for gps info?

If so it will be important/helpful to have a close up shot as the first image and the zoomed out complete artwork capture as a second image.

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Really happy to have this feature now!

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Correct, it will take the first image with GPS details.

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Top! I realized it in my last post. The address was correct. But the first photo was a close-up. Thx

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Works perfectly, thanks a lot

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Hi Thomas,

I just noticed that the GPS doesn’t works with PNG files, even if the metadata include the gps position data.

Cheers

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The SAC Hunter Guides recommend always use the JPG file format. This will result in smaller files than PNG which not only means they will load faster for viewers, but are also result in lower server hosting costs for the platform.

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Not using JPG is less of an issue these days since we automatically convert all the images that are uploaded, but it’s probably still a best practice to make sure the pictures look the way you want them to look.

Regardless, I’ll look into adding PNG metadata extraction, feels like we should support that just in case - thanks for the suggestion @Lulo!

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I used to upload in JPG format, but sometimes after uploading the file I noticed that the image isn’t displayed and is replaced by the logo of SAC. This is the reason y begin to use PNG format. I will try to find an example of JPG file with this problem and send it to you.

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Hi Thomas.

I reproduce the JPG image uploading problem with this mural:

the IMG_1503.jpg load until 100%, but it is not displayed.I convert to png format and it uploaded perfectly. The other images of the mural in jpg format uploaded well.

All the files come from the same iPhone.

If you want I can send to you the files in the 2 formats.

Cheers

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Yes please, that would be helpful to see!

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Hi Thomas,

sorry by the delay, I attach to you the files with the images.

the jpg with the issue is IMG_1503, the others upload without problem.

I also include the png i used to upload it,

IMG_1503
IMG_15031920×1440 451 KB

IMG_1504
IMG_15041920×2560 669 KB

IMG_1505
IMG_15051920×2560 687 KB

IMG_1508
IMG_15081920×1440 496 KB

IMG_1506
IMG_15061920×2560 678 KB

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Hmm, annoyingly it does seem to work when I try to upload that file:

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Um, it seems that perhaps is something related to my connection. Next time I will try to send it again
using a different wifi to check if it’s the problem.

Cheers

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This is really good, it is a way to speed up the upload of places, that they are correctly located and thus be able to prevent a person from uploading different murals incorrectly located in the same place.

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