Metadata missing from photos uploaded on SMART mobile app

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Hi,

Is there a way that the photograph taken through SMART and uploaded from the mobile phone to the app keep their metadata?

Whenever I get back an image from SMART desktop, there is no metadata on the image anymore. This would allow me to check the date & time of sightings compared to what was submitted.

Thanks,

Marine

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Hi Marine,

We currently remove the metadata when the image is resized. The idea is that the metadata from the observation (location + timestamp) is already in the sighting data.

Are you experiencing mismatches of some kind?

Cheers,
-Justin

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Hi Justin,

Some citizen scientists log the sighting when back home/back at the lodge and sometimes they forget to add the time/date in the comment section. I don’t want to make it an extra mandatory field because some people do log the sighting when they see the leopard and therefore I don’t want them to have to enter the information.

If I had access to the metadata I could make sure of the time & date.

Thanks

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Sounds good, we can add this feature to the backlog.

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@justinsteventon I dont know how/if this relates to a development requested for SMART Desktop regarding metadata of pictures once they are downloaded from the conservation area…

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I think it might be a separate thing. Marine is saying that people take pictures and add data at a different time and she wants to make sure the events are synced.

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Thank you Justin, appreciate your help!

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Hi Justin,

Would you be able to let me know when the meta data feature will be added please?

Thanks

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Hi Marine,

We will discuss this in an upcoming mobile task force call. I am guessing SMART 8, but since this is a Mobile only change, it could easily be sooner.

Cheers,
-Justin