Extracting gps location from image.. on facebook?!

[Damian Brown]

I think this isn't possible but then I haven't explored it much.

When an image is uploaded to facebook, is the exif data stripped?

The reason I want to know is that a friend is trying to get me to guess where he found some LPs.. long story... and I had the "brainwave" of looking in the file he uploaded. Except it's on facebook, where I feel it will have been stripped of info.

Any ideas? This is also interesting if you don't watermark your images and someone uses your image without paying, ie newspapers etc and your image is very similar to another persons image, ie with the exif you can conclude it is yours.

 

[incapete]

I've just tried it out and it looks like they do strip the exif data which I'd guessed they would - it's also why any orphan works legislation is such a bad idea given the amount of sites that do remove the exif data.


Back to your friend though... did he get the LP's out of a skip in Soho? There were loads of people picking up vinyl the other day from some shop that had dumped a load of stock in a skip!

 

[Damian Brown]

I've just tried it out and it looks like they do strip the exif data which I'd guessed they would - it's also why any orphan works legislation is such a bad idea given the amount of sites that do remove the exif data.


Back to your friend though... did he get the LP's out of a skip in Soho? There were loads of people picking up vinyl the other day from some shop that had dumped a load of stock in a skip!

No, but I heard about that too Gutted! I absolutely love LPs..

Basically he was driving about his daily business and came across a warehouse selling 100,000 Lps.. including stuff he loves like soul and funk but at £4-6 for real quality stuff. I told him I don't buy the same things as him, no point me sampling records everybody knows about, but until he's been back to buy all the goodies he wants, he won't reveal it. Now he's getting a bit too cocky saying I 100% won't find it.. that I wanna find it for myself and to get back at him with a

I have no clues but I feel it's in or near Birmingham.