PHP extract GPS EXIF data

Question

I would like to extract the GPS EXIF tag from pictures using php. I\'m using the exif_read_data() that returns a array of all tags + data :

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Answer 1

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging, ( [0] => 46/1 [1] => 5403/100 [2] => 0/1 ) should mean 46/1 degrees, 5403/100 minutes, 0/1 seconds, i.e. 46°54.03′0″N. Normalizing the seconds gives 46°54′1.8″N.

This code below should work, as long as you don't get negative coordinates (given that you get N/S and E/W as a separate coordinate, you shouldn't ever have negative coordinates). Let me know if there is a bug (I don't have a PHP environment handy at the moment).

//Pass in GPS.GPSLatitude or GPS.GPSLongitude or something in that format
function getGps($exifCoord)
{
  $degrees = count($exifCoord) > 0 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[0]) : 0;
  $minutes = count($exifCoord) > 1 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[1]) : 0;
  $seconds = count($exifCoord) > 2 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[2]) : 0;

  //normalize
  $minutes += 60 * ($degrees - floor($degrees));
  $degrees = floor($degrees);

  $seconds += 60 * ($minutes - floor($minutes));
  $minutes = floor($minutes);

  //extra normalization, probably not necessary unless you get weird data
  if($seconds >= 60)
  {
    $minutes += floor($seconds/60.0);
    $seconds -= 60*floor($seconds/60.0);
  }

  if($minutes >= 60)
  {
    $degrees += floor($minutes/60.0);
    $minutes -= 60*floor($minutes/60.0);
  }

  return array('degrees' => $degrees, 'minutes' => $minutes, 'seconds' => $seconds);
}

function gps2Num($coordPart)
{
  $parts = explode('/', $coordPart);

  if(count($parts) <= 0)// jic
    return 0;
  if(count($parts) == 1)
    return $parts[0];

  return floatval($parts[0]) / floatval($parts[1]);
}

Answer 2

The code I've used in the past is something like (in reality, it also checks that the data is vaguely valid):

// Latitude
$northing = -1;
if( $gpsblock['GPSLatitudeRef'] && 'N' == $gpsblock['GPSLatitudeRef'] )
{
    $northing = 1;
}

$northing *= defraction( $gpsblock['GPSLatitude'][0] ) + ( defraction($gpsblock['GPSLatitude'][1] ) / 60 ) + ( defraction( $gpsblock['GPSLatitude'][2] ) / 3600 );

// Longitude
$easting = -1;
if( $gpsblock['GPSLongitudeRef'] && 'E' == $gpsblock['GPSLongitudeRef'] )
{
    $easting = 1;
}

$easting *= defraction( $gpsblock['GPSLongitude'][0] ) + ( defraction( $gpsblock['GPSLongitude'][1] ) / 60 ) + ( defraction( $gpsblock['GPSLongitude'][2] ) / 3600 );

Where you also have:

function defraction( $fraction )
{
    list( $nominator, $denominator ) = explode( "/", $fraction );

    if( $denominator )
    {
        return ( $nominator / $denominator );
    }
    else
    {
        return $fraction;
    }
}

Answer 3

i have seen nobody mentioned this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LatLon/1.0.2

from fractions import Fraction
from LatLon import LatLon, Longitude, Latitude

latSigned = GPS.GPSLatitudeRef == "N" ? 1 : -1
longSigned = GPS.GPSLongitudeRef == "E" ? 1 : -1

latitudeObj = Latitude(
              degree = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLatitude[0]))*latSigned , 
              minute = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLatitude[0]))*latSigned , 
              second = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLatitude[0])*latSigned)
longitudeObj = Latitude(
              degree = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLongitude[0]))*longSigned , 
              minute = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLongitude[0]))*longSigned , 
              second = float(Fraction(GPS.GPSLongitude[0])*longSigned )
Coordonates = LatLon(latitudeObj, longitudeObj )

now using the Coordonates objecct you can do what you want: Example:

(like 46°56′48″N 7°26′39″E from wikipedia)

print Coordonates.to_string('d%°%m%′%S%″%H')

You than have to convert from ascii, and you are done:

('5\xc2\xb052\xe2\x80\xb259.88\xe2\x80\xb3N', '162\xc2\xb04\xe2\x80\xb259.88\xe2\x80\xb3W')

and than printing example:

print "Latitude:" + Latitude.to_string('d%°%m%′%S%″%H')[0].decode('utf8')

>> Latitude: 5°52′59.88″N

Answer 4

In case you need a function to read Coordinates from Imagick Exif here we go, I hope it saves you time. Tested under PHP 7.

function create_gps_imagick($coordinate, $hemi) {

  $exifCoord = explode(', ', $coordinate);

  $degrees = count($exifCoord) > 0 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[0]) : 0;
  $minutes = count($exifCoord) > 1 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[1]) : 0;
  $seconds = count($exifCoord) > 2 ? gps2Num($exifCoord[2]) : 0;

  $flip = ($hemi == 'W' or $hemi == 'S') ? -1 : 1;

  return $flip * ($degrees + $minutes / 60 + $seconds / 3600);

}

function gps2Num($coordPart) {

    $parts = explode('/', $coordPart);

    if (count($parts) <= 0)
        return 0;

    if (count($parts) == 1)
        return $parts[0];

    return floatval($parts[0]) / floatval($parts[1]);
}

Answer 5

short story. First part N Leave the grade multiply the minutes with 60 devide the seconds with 100. count the grades,minuts and seconds with eachother.

Second part E Leave the grade multiply the minutes with 60 devide the seconds with ...1000 cöunt the grades, minutes and seconds with each other

Answer 6

With this GPS data:

    ["GPSLatitudeRef"]=>
    string(1) "N"
    ["GPSLatitude"]=>
    array(3) {
        [0]=>
        string(7) "65539/0"
        [1]=>
        string(17) "-1542717440/65539"
        [2]=>
        string(8) "196608/0"
    }
    ["GPSLongitudeRef"]=>
    string(1) "E"
    ["GPSLongitude"]=>
    array(3) {
        [0]=>
        string(20) "39321600/-1166016512"
        [1]=>
        string(21) "1111490956/1811939343"
        [2]=>
        string(22) "1111491292/-1725956081"
    }

Using the above code (thanks Gerald) I get these Latitude & Longitude values:

-392.31537456069,-0.023678137550796

This is not correct. It's doing my head in as the code works, but the answer is wrong in this case! Many other images work fine, there just seems to be some logic missing to cater for something in this dat. For example, when I load the image in to iPhoto (sorry for the Apple example to those without Macs) it gets the answer right; this EXIF data is for a picture near the Red Sea.