Question about photos with encoded GPS location data

[Rustic]

Hi all. Metal Mistress' first thread was highly amusing (http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/g...personal-details-where-you-live-hunt-etc.html) , but it was also educational: I had no idea that some cameras put GPS location data into background data of photos.

Can someone knowledgeable in this explain how to tell if our camera, or in my case a kindle, is encoding our GPS location when we snap a photo? Can it be turned off? I hate the idea of my pictures having GPS data in them...

 

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[GA_Boy]

GPS---is that Gold Producing Stream?
Seriously, I agree about pictures with Longitude and Latitude data attached. My simple cell phone doesn't have it to my knowlege.
When I copy a pic from Google earth, I think it does.
Marvin

 

[digger460]

Do you know if you copy a pic from Google Earth, throw it into picasa and crop it, does it still have the gps locations?

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

There are settings to turn on and off .

 

[digger460]

There are settings to turn on and off .

In Google Earth?

 

[1320]

Kindle's don't have a GPS chip. They use wi-fi triangulation to provide you service but it's not a tracking "device" by any means.

 

[Rustic]

Kindle's don't have a GPS chip. They use wi-fi triangulation to provide you service but it's not a tracking "device" by any means.

Thank you, that's good to know.