EOS R6 Mark II Camera GPS Location Off by Miles

[WSC33]

I have an EOS R6 Mark 11 connected to my iPhone 13 for GPS.  The camera GPS is always off by several miles.  Obviously, my iPhone can locate me within a few feet.  Why the huge discrepancy?

Thanks.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Suggest you check the Canon Connect App permissions and ensure Location is allowed.  

[WSC33]

I assume you mean “do I have location access,” and of course yes.  I would have no GPS if it weren’t. (The GPS indicator on the camera flashes if you forget to turn on the app, right?) It does disconnect if my camera times out which is annoying and the object of a later question, but yes, if I understand your question, I am accessing location from the app.  Is this what you meant?  

[WSC33]

Hey Rick,

How do I do this?  What should I look for? The status says "Sending to camera", 'Smartphone,' 'Can be used.'  What are App permissions?

[shadowsports]

Android and iOS allow you approve or deny the permissions installed apps on your devices.  Android does it a little better than iOS.  

App permissions allow you to specify on a granular level if an app can (for example) access you microphone, your camera, your images, your location, etc. 

Have you reviewed your images.  Does GPS/Location information get included with your EXIF data.  Look in the image properties.  

[WSC33]

Hey Shadow,

Yes, it's in the EXIF data.  Where else would I see the GPS data?  It only appears there, right?  I'm new to this, so I didn't know.  But yes, it's in the EXIF.

Thanks.

[FloridaDrafter]

I've never used the GPS features in a camera or phone but I've used GPS for high precision surveying and mapping (ESRI Arc GIS and AutoCAD Land Desktop) quite a bit and the only time I've seen my coordinates off by miles is when I had the wrong format selected, like decimal degrees (DDs) instead of degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) or vice versa. For example, my receiver was outputting DDs and I was trying to map in DMS.

You may want to research what format the camera uses and make sure the phone is using the same.

Just a thought 🤔

Newton

[WSC33]

That's a good point.  Mine seem to be in DMS but the website i'm using (https://gps-coordinates.org/) is truncating my entires, so maybe those digits are being lost. Both lat and long are 7 digits long out of my camera.  The lat and longiture are truncated to at most 4 positions.  Do you have a suggestion for a site allowing more detail?

[kvbarkley]

Just type them into google.

[WSC33]

How do I structure it in the proper format for DMS?