Why is it so hard to upload a photo with Location data in its exif to the server? I am breaking my head not being able to solve this. Whenever I am sending the photo to the server all of its location information is being stripped off from the photo.
I have tried getting UIImage from the UIImagePickerController using both
NSURL *url = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL];
and also UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage.
Kindly someone help me
To preserve the exif info, you need to use the raw data, not just the UIImage. You can get it from the ALAsset's defaultRepresentation, something like this:
ALAssetRepresentation* representation = [myAsset defaultRepresentation];
int size = representation.size;
NSMutableData* data = [[NSMutableData alloc]initWithCapacity:size];
void* buffer = [data mutableBytes];
[representation getBytes:buffer fromOffset:0 length:size error:nil];
data = [NSMutableData dataWithBytes:buffer length:size];
I'm not near xcode to test it right now, but it should work.