💭 How to access GPS location tags in photo metadata? about react-native-vision-camera

[mrousavy]

Hm well maybe it just doesn't have the replacement data at this point yet.
It's definitely in the file, so if you read it you will get GPS metadata.

Also on Android there's no way to get that metadata currently - which sucks. So this is not really a public API at all.

[iamnotreddy]

@mrousavy - appreciate you getting back to me!

just to clarify, are referring to reading the GPS metadata from this photo file? my original understanding was that I could read the GPS metadata from the photo metadata so that might make sense why I'm not seeing it

[aesqe]

@iamnotreddy I also don't see the GPS data if I console.log the camera.takePhoto output. However, @mrousavy is right and the data is contained in the file metadata. https://github.com/francisco-sanchez-molina/react-native-exif can read that data and the values are correct in my case, at least on the latest iOS using iPhone 13.

[iamnotreddy]

Thanks for confirming on the takePhoto output @aesqe! That makes sense, I will try to get the GPS tag from the file metadata