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For years I've been trying to find a small camera with GPS enabled yet with a sensor larger than the one in my iPhone and came to the conclusion that they are no longer made, perhaps due to battery drain.

Looks like I should have been looking at phones instead, as this and another model mentioned in another comment (Lumix DMC-CM1) are a step above iPhone sensor-wise and also tag photos with location data.

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I don't have an example handy, but there are software solutions that take a recorded GPS track and apply EXIF to photos based on timestamp. Heck, knocking that together with command line tools wouldn't be too terribly difficult.

Thanks! I have tried software solutions in the past with my phone but its time-consuming and results were often terrible. I guess Canon set an expectation by putting GPS in some of their DSLRs.

There are compact cameras on the market which are able to connect to a smartphone (via Bluetooth) and take the GPS coordinates form there, apart from other functions (like uploading the photos).

I was going to mention my waterproof camera (old Nikon Coolpix) which has GPS, but I double-checked first, and you're right... same sensor size as the iPhone. And the software processing in the phone is miles ahead, even in 2017 it was a wash.

But it is lovely to import the photos from it into the photos app and just have them slide in right next to the phone photos, and on the map view too.

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