Pictures taken with smartphones may contain geotag data

Right, I transcribed that kind of sloppily. I wrote:



This would be more accurate:

GeoTagging Options
- Show overlay
- Turn OFF

When I select "turn OFF," then the pin disappears and is replaced with the compass rose. (Pin seems to mean GeoTagging is on, compass rose seems to mean it's off [but can be turned on if you want it].)

I think the discrepancy in Blackberry Bold directions is just due to different models. (There is the Bold 9000, 9600, etc.)

Thanks for the test, I'll try that.

This is good to know, for sure. How can we go about safely wiping the geotag data? I would normally open the image in GIMP, then resave while zeroing the meta data, is that the best I can do?

Since I post from a Linux machine with Image Magick installed, I would use

convert -strip path/to/image

This has the advantage that you can put it in a shell script that loops over all directories you have images in. It should also work on Macs and other Unixes. I'm not sure about Windows, where the "convert" command does something entirely different.