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ChrisNeilan wrote:Wow, JPG, you should take a second career with Gibbs at NCIS. You can track with the best of them!

I have been watching too many Sherlock Holmes reruns lately!

No GPS on camera, I figure you did a street view of the Island till you found my neighbors house in my pic and then did a 180*, since I could not see his address in my pics, but your pic from Google has his on it.
Are you saying if a camera/photo device has gps, it encodes/incripts a location of where a pic was taken on the pic??

Please read this:

http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewt ... 4&p=147300

It talks about the subject of gps and cameras.

Ed

Thanks Reible, didnt know but not into all that stuff, it is not my interest.
Wow, what else is out there!!!!!
Brings back to mind a scene in 13 Hours, during the night at the contractor/CIA compound in between attacks, a car pulls up and a person gets out and takes a pic. One of the ex Navy Seal contractor gets asked by one of the civilians what was that all about? Contractor sez getting our GPS coordinates, or something to that effect, a bit later they start getting mortared in the compound very accurately. I never really understood it til reading your suggested thread.

ERLover wrote:No GPS on camera, I figure you did a street view of the Island till you found my neighbors house in my pic and then did a 180*, since I could not see his address in my pics, but your pic from Google has his on it.
Are you saying if a camera/photo device has gps, it encodes/incripts a location of where a pic was taken on the pic??

That was the last step. First googled the island. Looked for the 'swamp'(west middle of the island). Then that last step. The 'turkey' fence confirmed it.

Some of us here do something called "Geocaching". You use a gps to find a geocache which was hidden by someone and it contains "treasures". You can find these and then log them as part of vast organization all over the world. For example given the gps coordinates of a cache you drive to a near by location and then walk around using your gps to locate it. Some are micro sized like the size of a pill bottle, others might be ammo can sized.

Everyone that I have taken out on one of these adventures has been amazed at being able to find such a small item..... I remember once I had my brother and one of his friends along and we wondered in to a place called sometimes lake. That is from it sometimes being a lake and other times not..... The friend knew nothing of this and walked along with us out in to the dry lake and we found this hidden cache....... he could not believe that we didn't know where this was ahead of time, just some numbers on a sheet of paper. He talked about that for years.

Back when there were no so many so one could keep up with a once a month outing and finding all the new ones in your area then it exploded. I dare say that you will have a couple with in a mile or so of your location in WI.

If you have some downtime do a search and read a bit.

Ed

JPG wrote:

ERLover wrote:I never have been stalked b4 but if I was, I would be honored if it waw JPG.
Not sure how you did it, I think I have an idea, other then what BD said which is greek to me. JPG you never cease to amaze me.
@ Tom> Really cute pic, I would be running too from all those spurs.

Other than Google Earth, all the 'clues' came from thee!



'Metadata' could have possibly been another way, but no did not need any of that. Your camera got GPS? Definitely something to be concerned about if posting pix.

I dunno what percentage of digital cameras have GPS. But if you take pix with a smart phone, it almost certainly has GPS coordinates. It's called "geotagging" when those coordinates are attached to the image file. And it's real easy to access the coordinates. This article tells how.

The term "metadata", BTW, is just geek-speak for "data about data". For example, if I look at the metadata for a pic that my wife took with her DSLR, It will tell me the shutter speed, aperature setting, and even the focal length that she used for that particular shot with her zoom lens.

First off my camera does not have a GPS. I learned alot here about big brother.
JPG, one thing I do on this forum in the proper Subjects, give some thing to do, other then wood working and SS stuff. I gave you the Island, and even more. Real obvious ones, I knew you would get to where you did, and proud of you for that, heck you knew I was on the marsh side by the bird thing and the the sunset pic. The poor peoples side, not on the open water Mansions!! I am not a boater any more and like my side, I have Bald Eagles in the open water time in my back yard watching the open water in the marsh area.
Just wish I could b home more, last June, just b4 I bought the place, I asked mom what she wanted, me here or move, she said I am fine, well from other post she got a UTI in July and went systemic to her lungs, Aug in the hospital, Sept in rehap, and now I am here. But that is life, I am not complaining, just the facts. I will be up in May, Bro is in from CA for a month, so back home. ER time.

Just fer so whats.

Well at least nothing incriminating there