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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Evidently, some homeowner policy
      underwriters do want to track the geotagging.  I doubt it's for
      anything legally binding, but may be to help with their own
      statistics for certain range areas.  Perhaps a more fine-tuned
      approach to assess risk than using zip code for instance.<br>
      <br>
      I thought the geocoding for a property might be more readily
      available from some local government database, but I've been told
      that they would only be using a surveying coordinate system.<br>
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      On 3/23/20 4:43 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:alpine.DEB.2.10.2003231327120.8334@server-04">Insurance
      photos is something I have thought about. Maybe for damage to a
      car.  Maybe before and after photos. Meaning you might need to
      verify geolocation and also date/time the photo was taken. Maybe
      even the direction the camera was pointing.
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      To "harden" the proof, you could embed the JPG photo (containing
      the GEOTAG, etc.) inside a PDF, which can then be certified (tied
      to a certificated individidual, tied to a validated date/time
      clock, encrypted, and password protected. When a certificate is
      applied to a PDF, that process hashes the entire PDF, so that
      contents within can not be changed. I think this could prove when
      and where the the picture was taken. I'm not sure what the
      mechanism could be for validating the date/time clock.
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      On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:
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      <blockquote type="cite">One might be extracting that info from
        photos for insurance purposes (i.e, homeowner's).  I think
        underwriters want to store the geotagging info and not just
        store info like "more than five miles from the ocean".  (Of
        course, I would think that info would be more readily available
        from something other than a photo.)
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        On 3/23/20 1:41 PM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
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        <blockquote type="cite">On the topic of GPS coordinates: what
          use case can you think of for this? I've been aware of
          geotagging (an dother EXIF data) in photos and videos for
          years, and have written code to extract that data from the
          files, but have not come up with many use cases. Ideas?
          <br>
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          On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list
          wrote:
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          <blockquote type="cite">Sometimes I think of some neat things
            I've done over the years and just feel like sharing.
            <br>
            <br>
            Here are a few: (linux OS)
            <br>
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            Merge PDFs into a single new PDF:
            <br>
            /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
            -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf
            <br>
            <br>
            Extract Pages from a PDF:
            <br>
            i.e. page 1-4
            <br>
            /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
            -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=4 -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf
            file1.pdf
            <br>
            <br>
            Extract Pages from page # to end:
            <br>
            /usr/bin/gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
            -dFirstPage=2 -sOutputFile=file_new.pdf file1.pdf
            <br>
            <br>
            Get the numbers of pages in a PDF:
            <br>
            /usr/bin/pdfinfo file1.pdf | grep "Pages:" | sed
            s/"Pages:"//g | sed s/" "//g
            <br>
            i.e.
            <br>
            8
            <br>
            <br>
            Get the Lat/Long from a JPG image:
            <br>
            exiftool -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude file2.JPG
            <br>
            i.e.
            <br>
            GPS Latitude                    : 31.4998652777778
            <br>
            GPS Longitude                   : -100.448014444444
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            I hope someone finds this useful.
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            Be safe out there,
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            <br>
            Richard D. Williams
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