GPS Information in Nitro

[Ed Fritzen]

I have a question about where Nitro gets the GPS information (And other EXIF information) when looking at the Apple Photo Library. I’ve noticed that Nitro includes a lot more EXIF info than what can be found in Photos. For example, with images that have GPS information embedded, Photos will usually display a general location with a pin on the map seen in the Info window. Sometimes it takes quite a while for Photos to find the location. Nitro displays the same map with a pin in its EXIF window, and a very close actual address. Does Nitro just extract more EXIF information, or does it use a different database to find locations than does Photos. This is not a problem, I’m just curious how geo tagging works.

Thanks,
Ed

[Nik Bhatt]

Nitro uses the location from the photo library (if you are using that vs. the Finder). And it uses Apple’s Mapping library to display the pin. I don’t know Photos would be worse at that, but I’ll take the win 🙂

[Ed Fritzen]

Thanks for your reply, Nik.
Shortly after I posted my question I found the GPS information I was looking for in Apple Photos. If one displays a single picture in Photos, then scrolls to the bottom of the screen to display the location information, there is a much larger map with the location pin and an approximate address. The address was not shown in the small “Get info” window for the image. It was this information that I saw in the Nitro EXIF information.

Ed

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