# Image direction not derived from GoPro9 in python CLI upload

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**Created:** [August 25, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/image-direction-not-derived-from-gopro9-in-python-cli-upload/5298 "2021-08-25T09:11:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![koninklijke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@koninklijke](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/koninklijke)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/image-direction-not-derived-from-gopro9-in-python-cli-upload/5298/1 "2021-08-25T09:11:05Z")

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Quoting from [mapillary\_tools/README.md at main · mapillary/mapillary\_tools · GitHub](https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary_tools/blob/master/README.md), the section

### Derive image direction and Upload

- Derive image direction (image heading or camera angle) based on image latitude and longitude. If images are missing direction\*, the direction is derived automatically, if direction is present, it will be derived and overwritten only if the flag `--interpolate directions` is specified.

- As with the GoPro9, where the GPS Img Direction entry is lacking in the EXIF-section

Please refer to my sequence of 9 June, where the ways were captured in both directions, yet the fans all point due north.

As an aside, the lacking parts of sequence issue - posted as [http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/sequence-taken-5-june-uploaded-few-days-after-still-only-part-visible-on-maps/5297](http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/sequence-taken-5-june-uploaded-few-days-after-still-only-part-visible-on-maps/5297) - is also present here, and on this occasion the pics were uploaded several days ago - hence well after the previous issue was solved, and don’t appear in the OSM iD editor either.