When an image is imported, it may contain EXIF and GPS metadata.
If you resize an image or manipulate an image in any way, Yate is creating a new image. The full set of GPS metadata will be lost. If the image being manipulated initially contained EXIF metadata, the OS will recreate some of the EXIF metadata.
You can read image metadata via the Extract Metadata from Image File statement and the Indexed Artwork Statement's Get Image Metadata function. In the UI you can view the metadata via a displayed image's Get Info context menu item.
You can modify metadata via the Indexed Artwork Statement's Set Image Metadata function. The OS may discard whatever data it does not like and may override some changes. It may not be possible to remove all EXIF metadata. In fact macOS will almost always insert back some EXIF metadata when an attempt is made to remove it all (if EXIF metadata previously existed).