Why Does My UNLEASHED Occasionally Misplace My GPS Coordinates?

[topiasverly]

I’ve been using the UNLEASHED tool for a while now, and it has been an incredible addition to my photography workflow. The ability to have GPS coordinates embedded directly into my photos without any hassle is exactly what I needed. However, I’ve noticed something puzzling. Occasionally, the location data seems slightly off—not dramatically, but enough that it raises questions. It’s not a consistent issue, which makes it even harder to pinpoint the cause.

Most of the time, the GPS tagging works perfectly. But on certain occasions, I’ll review my photos later and realize that the coordinates don’t match exactly where I was. For example, last weekend, I was shooting in a forested area, and later, when checking the GPS data, I saw that my location was marked a few hundred meters away from where I actually was. I thought it might be due to the phone's GPS signal, but my phone’s native location services seemed fine at the time. Could it be that the device prioritizes a specific type of GPS signal, or maybe there’s interference in certain environments?

This got me thinking about how the tool interacts with different terrains and conditions. GPS accuracy is influenced by so many factors—trees, buildings, and even atmospheric conditions. I was standing in a relatively open space, yet the shift in coordinates happened. Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior? Could the way I move between shots impact how frequently the GPS updates? I try to keep my phone near me at all times, but I wonder if brief disconnections or delays in communication between my phone and UNLEASHED might explain these occasional shifts.

The idea of "where am I" is something I’ve thought about beyond just photography. In today’s world, location services don’t just tell you where you are physically—they also help you show where you are online. Whether it’s social media check-ins, navigation apps, or even tools like UNLEASHED, the way we interact with location data has become second nature. But accuracy is key, especially for something as important as geotagging photos. If the location shifts even slightly, it can change the context of an image, which is why I want to understand how to minimize these occasional discrepancies.

Has anyone else noticed similar behavior with their UNLEASHED device? I’d like to know if certain settings, habits, or even specific phone models affect how the tool processes location data. Is there a preferred way to ensure the most accurate geotagging possible? Maybe there are factors I haven’t considered yet. I’d appreciate any thoughts on this.

[birnaofthenorth]

You are lucky to get anything from your Unleashed.... Must be nearly 1 year ago my 22'M units delivered anything like GPS. At that time, just intermittently if the 22'M had a good day and hadn't drained the camera battery.. Firmware "updates" killed off all features and any residual functionality over the last year. Now my Foolography units are just junk.

This is a deeply flawed product. It can only be relied upon to kill the camera battery -- nothing else.

[PapaBear]

You are lucky to get anything from your Unleashed.... Must be nearly 1 year ago my 22'M units delivered anything like GPS. At that time, just intermittently if the 22'M had a good day and hadn't drained the camera battery.. Firmware "updates" killed off all features and any residual functionality over the last year. Now my Foolography units are just junk.

This is a deeply flawed product. It can only be relied upon to kill the camera battery -- nothing else.

As far as I can recall, the battery drainage problem is a prolonged design flaw or implementation error that goes back before the Covid crisis started, so that means that all these years the customer received flawed products while the company knew all this time that customers complained about the real life problems they experienced and reported back to the company. Well, by now I can safely conclude that the company has no intentions of ever going to fix that and that their attitude towards that hasn't changed a bit over all these years to get to the bottom of this to solve the problems their customers experience all the years. They just added new features only while not addressing and solving the problems which are the most annoying: battery draining of the camera battery, even when the camera is shut off for weeks. I would call that intentional misbehavior. Nothing more then that! Call it what it is! Unprofessional.

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