Repost: Select multiple photos/files with EXIF tags populating geopoints
I posted this back on 1/9/25. Hoping there have been some more updates the past few months:
While Survey123 can extract EXIF data from a single image attachment to populate a geopoint, it does not appear to have built-in support for reading EXIF data from multiple attachments and populating multiple geopoints. This isn't tedious when dealing with one or two photos, but when dealing with hundreds, it would be very monotonous to manually select each photo one by one.
The screenshot below is how I have the EXIF tags set up in my connect XLS form. Its designed to read only one image at a time:
I wish there was a way to replace {image_1} with an iterator that goes through how ever many attachments, pulls the EXIF tag of each attachment and populates different geopoints . For example, in the screenshot below, there are three photos taken from my camera roll. My wish is that the code itself could analyze the EXIF tags of each of the three photos and populate three different lat/lon points below resulting in three geopoints plotted in the hosted feature layer. Currently, a bulk upload turns up nothing:
This may be a partial solution, You can use the selected-at() function to pull data from specific images of a multiline image question. You won't be able to automatically iterate through all the photos taken, But maybe you could put a constraint on the number of photos and then make a series of relevant exif pulls based on the number of photos you are allowing.
*not sure if all this is supported in the webapp which it looks like you are using???