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		johnchristopher on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive > One major limitation with the Google Photos API is that it's impossible to get the location data from the photos through it. Shouldn't jpegs have this data if geoloc was on at the time of shooting ? Am I right in understanding that you imply that this meta-data is somehow disconnected from the file on Google Photos ?

anchpop on June 12, 2019 [–]

That understanding is correct, according to my interpretation of this comment [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166771

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