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geotag

American  
[jee-oh-tag] / ˈdʒi oʊˌtæg /

noun

  1. a piece of data embedded in a digital media file to indicate geographical information about the subject, usually latitude and longitude.


verb (used with or without object)

geotagged, geotagging
  1. to add geotags to (photos or other digital media).

    A GPS-equipped camera lets you geotag your photos and videos.

Etymology

Origin of geotag

First recorded in 1995–2000; geo- + tag 1


Example Sentences

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For instance, users with precise location switched on will see options for locations nearer to them when trying to add a geotag to an Instagram Story or post.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2022

Wagner and a group of undergraduate students volunteer their time to geotag and photograph the flags so mourners can find them digitally on the installation platform.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021

In March, Petito shared a photograph on Instagram with a geotag for the Appalachian Trail in Georgia.

From Fox News ● Sep. 29, 2021

Perusing the Last Bookstore geotag on Instagram, you’ll see hundreds of photos of shoppers peeking through the store’s famed book window or standing in a tunnel made of books.

From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018

In fact, there are so many photos of flipped birds on this geotag that they start to feel, taken together, like a real artistic corpus—a genre all their own.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2018

Crucially, the maps are geotagged, meaning each pixel corresponds to coordinates that can be easily referenced.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

His last post was "geotagged" to a hilltop overlooking Roquebrune-Cap-Martin between the principality and the town of Menton.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023

To authenticate their presence on the worksite, the supervisors then take and upload geotagged photos of the workers through the app-enabled camera.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2023

She tracked more than 1,700 manholes here that had been geotagged for their location.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether the killing stemmed from an Instagram post by the rapper’s girlfriend that geotagged Roscoe’s, at Main Street and Manchester Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

Possibly as the result of an Instagram post from his fiancée geotagging them at the restaurant, he was targeted by Trone and another defendant, Tremont Jones, prosecutors alleged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

I did a whole podcast on geotagging and the moral issues around conservation, the environment, and social media.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022

They have developed an algorithm that aims to distinguish between photos publicly posted by locals and those posted by visitors, and using the geotagging information to locate them both on a map.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2017

Media reports in Britain and New Zealand said he picked up the nickname "bumbling jihadi" after he failed to turn off the geotagging function on his Twitter account, broadcasting his location to the world.

From Reuters ● Mar. 30, 2017

It’s part of a massive global media junket that’s so secretive, journalists are prohibited from geotagging photos they post to Instagram.

From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2015

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