How Do I Get The Correct Latitude and Longitude From An Uploaded iPhone Photo?

Question

My problem actually seems rather silly... I am writing an iPhone application that uses MKMapKit. The app grabs the EXIF metadata from a provided geotagged photo. The problem

Answer 1

While you can get the location from the asset per @Allen, it is also valid to get it from the GPS metadata as you were trying to do initially. I'm not 100% sure the asset library coordinate will be the same as the coord in the GPS metadata, it depends on how Apple stores this coord. For example, if you are using a timestamp, the Asset library timestamp is different than the EXIF creation date (a different topic, admittedly).

In any case, the reason you have the coord wrong is b/c you also need to get the direction info as follows:

NSDictionary *metadata = asset.defaultRepresentation.metadata;
NSLog(@"Image Meta Data: %@",metadata);
NSDictionary *gpsdata = [metadata objectForKey:@"{GPS}"];
self.lat = [gpsdata valueForKey:@"Latitude"];
self.lng = [gpsdata valueForKey:@"Longitude"];

// lat is negative is direction is south
if ([[gpsdata valueForKey:@"LatitudeRef"] isEqualToString:@"S"]) {
    self.lat = -self.lat;
}

// lng is negative if direction is west
if ([[gpsdata valueForKey:@"LongitudeRef"] isEqualToString:@"W"]) {
    self.lng = -self.lng;
}

NSLog(@"\nLatitude: %@\nLongitude: %@",self.lat,self.lng);

Answer 2

Are you sure you're not missing a minus sign on that 118? 34.257, -118.5373 is nicely inside Los Angeles, California.

Answer 3

i think you should grab the value using following:

 CLLocation *location = [asset valueForProperty:ALAssetPropertyLocation];

Answer 4

This also will works,

void (^ALAssetsLibraryAssetForURLResultBlock)(ALAsset *) = ^(ALAsset *asset)
    {
        ALAssetRepresentation *rep = [asset defaultRepresentation];
        NSDictionary *metadata = rep.metadata;

        NSMutableDictionary *GPSDictionary = [[[metadata objectForKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyGPSDictionary]mutableCopy] autorelease];

    };

Answer 5

I believe that the reason that there isn't a negative sign is because of the metadata: exif:GPSLongitudeRef: W which (I believe) means that there should be a negative sign in front of the longitude since it is referencing the western hemisphere. I believe that this also applies to the latitude but with exif:GPSLatitudeRef: N for Northern and Southern hemispheres. Hope that this helped. Just realized this is exactly what @XJones said. Metadata using ImageMagick.