I used to not but I wish I did. I want to know where pictures were taken. Photo album software like Immich can also make cool maps out of your photos this way and group photos by location.

As long as you're not sharing the pictures with anyone, there is no loss of privacy whatsoever in doing this. I don't see any reason to generally label it as "not great for privacy".

When sharing publicly, you need to be careful of course and run the images through an EXIF metadata stripper.

Yes of course. Noone has access to the pictures but me. And even if some gov agency would get access to it. And then? It's historic data. They know where I live, where I work. And then they know that I go out hiking each week. So what? And that's only if they get access to it. If the locate my phone they have a live position of me. Photos are nothing bad. Hackers? My address is more valuable. Foreign people? Have no access

Shoutout to https://f-droid.org/en/packages/deckers.thibault.aves.libre/, which shows your pictures on a map without any cloud service.

If you share something with ANY metadata, either delete or encrypt it before sharing

I do, but use a exif scrambler if I post online

I just host my own photo backup service and outside of Lemmy, I don't use social media.

I would like to have that info for my own photos, but I don't have location services on unless I need them anyway, so it would be pointless.

I do. Most sites strip metadata from images anyways. If you're super worried about it, you can just remove the metadata in windows (or your other os) or prior to upload.

I keep it on because I use my phone for geotagging trees on campus for labs.

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Great feature, but no!

Generally I make sure to take enough pics to have an idea of the area I was in.

In addition , I also carry a small note pad, to write down cords., so that I may frequent said areas in the future.

Another option, is to manually pin locations on an open source apk map; this device of choice, would have limited network connections and any data saved would be encrypted.

Exampl apk: OSM Automated Navigation Directions

i do, and together with nextcloud's map application you get a full view of which image was taken where.

just feels really cool after a half decade to have so many pictures so far away, all at one glance.

also, in the current age of large machine learning models, it is scarily easy to use one of these to guess the location. it's like the colkective hive mind of geoguesser players working together, so if one really wants to find ur location based on ur pictures, they really dont even need the metadata anymore

I believe I have it turned on still. Any time I upload my pictures I use ffshare though.

No. Just in case I forget to remove the information if I post it anywhere.

Having the location feature enabled is already against privacy in the first place.