From 9366f8cb6cf6afe0cf1d32b49ff3e28f1354cd55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:16:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] more on Google Photos - online edit of handbook/computing/myphone.html --- handbook/computing/myphone.html | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/computing/myphone.html b/handbook/computing/myphone.html index 2ca49bf9c..a5de20103 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/myphone.html +++ b/handbook/computing/myphone.html @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

Privacy settings - not what we want here

When you share photos on your phone to the Expo photo sharing site, by default, the location of those photos will be stripped out. So all those lovely pics of intriguing cave entrances you snapped on your walks are now utterly useless. -

Google Photos is for TEMPORARY sharing only. Archival storage must be done by uploading to the website using the "Upload Photos" page on the website. +

Google Photos is for TEMPORARY sharing only *. Archival storage must be done by uploading to the website using the "Upload Photos" page on the website.

So, before expo, perhaps while sitting in a traffic jam around Munich or on the train from Bad Ischl, take a moment to photograph your travel companions in an embarassing pose and fix the this:

  1. Go to Apps on your phone, select Google Photos, and allow the app to access Location on your phone (NOT "precise" location) when the app is in use. @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@

    ALSO: always take 3 photos of any entrance, the obvious one about 10m away, a scene-setting one from 20 or 30m away, but also a really close one of 3 to 5m away, so that we can see if rocks have moved around the entrance and also for a much better identification in future. If there is a tag, always take a close-up photograph of it so that the letters are readable. -

    Share location with useful people on expo

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    Share location (using Google Maps app or something equivalent) with useful people on expo

    tbd

    So that we can spend less time looking for the body in horrible conditions...

    [someone write this is a less frightening way, please?] @@ -78,5 +78,10 @@ tbd Install the "GPS Test" app, this one: GPS TEST and check whether your phone is using SBAS "Satellite-based Augmentation Services", which is another name for EGNOS, the differential GPS system. You need to record if SBAS is in operation whenever you record the position of a cave entrance (and ideally whenever you take a photo too, but that would be unrealistic). +

    Temporary Google Photos

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    When anyone shares photos on a "Shared Album" in Google Photos, they are only visible so long as the original photographer keeps the photos on their device: there are loads of photos by Harry Kettle from 2023 which are visible only as blank rectangles on the Shared Album because he has cleared out his photo album on his google account. (This really is a "share" not an "upload".) +

    So unless the photo is utterly trivial and disposable, please also upload the photos using the "Upload Photos" page on the website before you delete them from your device. +

    We would rather you didn't use Google Photos at all really, but people will willy-nilly, so let's at least use the same Google photos album each year. +

    Go on to Saving your GPS tracks