Just a quick note, these days most cameras automatically geotag photos which is pretty cool, especially when taking travel photos, but sometimes you may not want everyone to know where a photo was actually taken.
For example, a photo of your backyard could give away your home address which is probably not a great thing.
Its really easy to clear the geotag data with a great little tool called exiftool.
I used this tool in an earlier blog post too and I find it really useful!
To install exiftool in Ubuntu:
Then executing exiftool followed by a jpg filename will output a whole bunch of exif data for you - some of which may have geolocation data:
The clear this geotag data out, simply issue this command:
For example, a photo of your backyard could give away your home address which is probably not a great thing.
Its really easy to clear the geotag data with a great little tool called exiftool.
I used this tool in an earlier blog post too and I find it really useful!
To install exiftool in Ubuntu:
$> sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
Then executing exiftool followed by a jpg filename will output a whole bunch of exif data for you - some of which may have geolocation data:
$> exiftool image.jpg
ExifTool Version Number : 8.60
File Name : image.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 14 kB
…
The clear this geotag data out, simply issue this command:
$> exiftool -gps:all= image.jpg