sohkamyung

@weecious @cendawanita Agree about iNaturalist. Personal experience: I recently took shots of an unidentified bee in Singapore. After uploading on iNat, it was identified as a seldom seen bee.

A local bee researcher then used my observation to locate more of the bees and he is now preparing a short paper describing them and their behaviour.

@KelsonV

Maybe you could try OSMTracker. It might use its own camera app to take shots.

https://learnosm.org/en/mobile-mapping/osmtracker/

On F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmtracker/

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic

@KelsonV

I tried using the OsmAnd Audio/Video plugin to take shots using the system photo app with Location Info disabled.

Photos I take directly using the photo app have no location info. But looks like location info is still available with shots taken using the OsmAnd plugin.

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic

@KelsonV

I use the OsmAnd app to take waypoint photos (with GPS info) for iNaturalist. These shots don't get uploaded to Google Photos unless I want them to. I usually copy them to my Download folder for later uploading to iNat.

So I could turn off GPS in the Photo app, and keep personal and iNat shots separate.

https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/audio-video-notes/#create-waypoints

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic

@KelsonV I saw the @markwitton blog post about this. Will be reading it. 🙂

https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-paper-fresh-evidence-and-novel.html

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