(with Python, the Python Imaging Library, and the ArcGIS Online API for Python)
Using geotagged images can be a great way to capture verifiable data in a project-based learning or citizen science exercise. Students can collect data with photographs, share their images to a common folder, and then use this script to map the pictures.
Geotagged images are taken constantly, usually by people with smartphones, perhaps even by people unaware that latitude-longitude information is embedded in the header of the images. For many casual users, seeing these images in a smartphone’s built-in Photo app with a simple map feature is all the mapping they’ll want. But, for the carto-literati ...
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