How to remove geo-localization/EXIF data from photos
I wanted to share publicly some photos, but I performed them with navigation enabled so they contained accurate localization of my house. I wanted to remove EXIF data GPS tags, my phone type and other irrelevant stuff.
TL;DR
You will need imagemagick
installed (use apt
/yum
/dnf
of whatever you have there):
sudo apt install -y imagemagick
To remove them just use:
mogrify -strip image.jpg
How to check if it’s working?
First, let’s get some example images 1.

To check what tags image provides, you can use identify
tool (I limited output to only GPS data because it’s just too much stuff there):
identify -verbose image.jpg | wc -l
156
identify -verbose image.jpg | grep GPS
exif:GPSAltitudeRef: 0
exif:GPSDateStamp: 2008:10:23
exif:GPSImgDirectionRef:
exif:GPSInfo: 926
exif:GPSLatitude: 43/1, 28/1, 281400000/100000000
exif:GPSLatitudeRef: N
exif:GPSLongitude: 11/1, 53/1, 645599999/100000000
exif:GPSLongitudeRef: E
exif:GPSMapDatum: WGS-84
exif:GPSSatellites: 06
exif:GPSTimeStamp: 14/1, 27/1, 724/100
There was 156 lines of different tags!
After cleanup:
identify -verbose image.jpg | wc -l
88
identify -verbose image.jpg | grep GPS
you will get only generic information data, without any GPS tags.