Photo upload: can we capture photo direction/bearing? about android HOT 6 OPEN

This is definitely useful. Please do keep this active.

It hopefully should be a simple job of reading this from the device direction API and slipping this into the submitted data alongside the lat/lon.

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We've had a little discussion about this at jezhiggins#16

Right now, it isn't captured in the standard photo metadata. Perhaps it will be in the future.

We could try and capture it but because there's a gap, potentially quite a long one, between taking the photo and coming back into the CycleStreets app during which the orientation may well change. I'm not that convinced the compass works that well if the phone isn't horizontal - certainly seems to go pretty wild on my Desire.

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@jezhiggins:
Not from the phone, I think, but we could ask user.

@smsm1:
Couldn't we use the compass built into the newer phones? It won't be done at photo capture time and embedded into the photo, though newer phones may start doing that.

@jezhiggins:
We might be able to have a stab at it for photos that are taken right there and then, however I'm still not sure it'd be reliable. There's still a gap, potentially quite a long one, between taking the photo and coming back into the CycleStreets app during which the orientation may well change. Also, I'm not that convinced the compass works that well if the phone isn't upright. Could be wrong though :) Post-release, we can have a dabble and investigate.
I think you're right and that it will start to be embedded in the photo metadata in the future, though.

@mvl22:
I think this definitely should only apply for when the photo has added the direction/bearing into the EXIF. That was the intention of the feature request.

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Having just been out and taking some photos I'd like to +1 this enhancement, and while we're about it we should capture azimuth too. Also I don't know if it is possible to tell how far away the subject is from the exif data? If so we could also include Close-up, Medium or Distant.

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Comments at jezhiggins#16 but that thread should be closed.

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@mvl22 @si-the-pie Is this still something we want to consider? Or does the issue need to get binned?

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