Placement of iPhone MOV video on map
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enhancement
feature: 🖼 photos
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- JavaScript
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Description
The iOS MOV container includes GPS information, as for example:
$ mediainfo IMG_2477.MOV
General
Complete name : IMG_2477.MOV
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 0000.00 (qt )
File size : 20.1 MiB
Duration : 3 s 537 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 47.7 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2017-08-23 23:33:29
Tagged date : UTC 2017-08-23 23:33:33
Writing library : Apple QuickTime
com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709 : +39.6459-079.9797+276.269/
com.apple.quicktime.make : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.model : iPhone 6s Plus
com.apple.quicktime.software : 10.3.3
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate : 2017-08-23T19:33:29-0400
Is there any workaround for placing the video on the map based on the included GPS info?
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Research direction
Start by checking how the Maps app discovers location data for uploaded media, using the provided mediainfo output for IMG_2477.MOV as the reference case. Determine whether the iOS GPS metadata is currently read, and define completion as placing videos with valid embedded coordinates on the map.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100