if you're going hiking wouldn't it have been smarter to have a GPS app that you could directly share the co-ordinates from. "Hi, guys. I'm at 'long, lat' please send the rescue squad. Smaller packet and less power needed than sending pictures for best guesses.
It's surprisingly hard to get a modern, stock Android phone to give you raw coordinates. At least, that's my impression of it. I personally never noticed them anywhere in recent versions, so I use a separate app that can display the raw GPS , compass, accelerometer data.
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It's surprisingly hard to get a modern, stock Android phone to give you raw coordinates. At least, that's my impression of it. I personally never noticed them anywhere in recent versions, so I use a separate app that can display the raw GPS , compass, accelerometer data.
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Yippee. The proprietary version of co-ordinates.