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Nov 15, 2016, 08:43 PM
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Disabling location services?
A fellow member mentioned in a thread about disabling location services when posting pictures of finds insitu or on location. R u kidding me?
Is it really possible for someone to find you're honey hole using pictures we are posting?
I don't want to know how it is done nor do I want anyone posting on this thread how it's done.
I'm just looking for clarification so myself and others can be more careful. Its bad enough dealing with all the local moochers trying to "befriend" me for my spots. Thanks, Mike
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Nov 15, 2016, 08:49 PM
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 Just another Guy In Back
Yes.
I uploaded this photo and processed the EXIF data from it.
Here are the results, and you can clearly see the what and where...
Last edited by G.I.B.; Nov 15, 2016 at 08:54 PM.
Get up late... Start slow... Taper off early... 
I am a second level vegetarian. Cow's eat grass. I eat cows.
Half of everything I do today will be wrong. I just don't know which half yet.
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Nov 15, 2016, 08:58 PM
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Just another Guy In Back
As an additional note...
I do not disable my location services. I like my pictures tagged, for organization and other reasons.
When I post a photo on TN I open the photo up, and then take a screen shot of the photo.
I only post the screen shot, and this is the information that can be gleaned from it...
A lot less, 'eh?
Get up late... Start slow... Taper off early...
I am a second level vegetarian. Cow's eat grass. I eat cows.
Half of everything I do today will be wrong. I just don't know which half yet.
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Nov 16, 2016, 12:52 AM
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I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it” ― Thomas Jefferson
Disabling location services?
All my pictures are from my house and I wouldn't come to my house.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Last edited by Truth; Nov 16, 2016 at 11:02 AM.
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Nov 16, 2016, 09:02 AM
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That's why I use a camera and not a phone. Way too easy to glean info from those devices...
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Nov 16, 2016, 09:05 AM
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All my pictures are from my house and I would come to my house.
This is true for me as well. Probably 75% of my "before" pics are taken in my yard or house. Most of my insitu pics are too dark or out of focus to use here.
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Nov 24, 2016, 10:37 PM
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There's a freeware pgm out there called EXIF pilot. You can delete or change the exif data from pics and keep the data on your original photos before posting. Simple! It's so easy to use even I can make it work!! I posted a ways back how I changed the info to an area quite a ways from one of my projects to check a friends honesty. Sure enough! He showed up at the bogus site. Seriously if you're worried give this pgm a try!
I know it's here, just need a bigger coil!
I think I know what my last words will be....
"Hold my beer and watch this!" 
Famous last words "Wow! Is that a meteor?"
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Nov 25, 2016, 02:52 PM
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This has been a known issue to gold prospectors for almost 10-years now. There were several instances of patches being cleaned out by phone pirates in Arizona and California. 
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Nov 27, 2016, 12:39 AM
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If you hunt any kinda treasure disable location services.Many good spots been lost to looters.
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