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Easily Geotag Your Digital Photos
Posted by Adam Pash at 7:40 AM on May 14, 2008
If Google Maps' integration of geotagged photos piqued your interest, Wired blogger Charlie Sorrel focuses his lens on geotagging photos, the practice of adding location to a photo's metadata that will tell you where a photo was taken. He highlights several options for the budding geotagger, from for-a-price solutions, like the new Eye-Fi Explore SD card and GPS cameras, to no-cost solutions, like Flickr's integrated geotagging tools. We've also covered a couple of no-cost geotagging options in the past that might do the trick, but for the not-that-high price of $US130, the Eye-Fi Explore is an excellent upgrade to my beloved Eye-Fi memory card.
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eclipse785
Posted 8:44 AM 14/5/08
Meh,.. I'm no pro, but Geotagging in Picassa FTW!
eclipse785
1drew3
Posted 9:20 AM 14/5/08
The best software I have found for Geotagging my photos is Geosetter.
You can use GPS track logs or select the photo's position on the map.
[www.geosetter.de]
As side note, I use GPSBabel for all my GPS file conversion needs.
[www.gpsbabel.org]
1drew3
davebarboza
Posted 10:41 AM 14/5/08
It should be noted that the Eye-Fi is only good in "populated areas", as in places with wireless internet coverage. For full coverage you'd need a solution with GPS. They exist but cost more.
davebarboza
Lazarus
Posted 12:06 PM 14/5/08
@davebarboza: It also works if you have a wifi connection at home. And come back from the field and the Eye-Fi will then sync to your network after youve set it up.
Lazarus
rlee
Posted 12:30 PM 14/5/08
Cool idea, but it seems to be restricted to marking a single point. Do any tools -- or the image metadata itself, for that matter -- support marking photos with a geo region, or a pair of points, to express concepts like "the length of Copacabana beach as seen from the east end", or "view of Manhattan from the Statue of Liberty"? Am I the only one anal enough to find that useful?
rlee
daftary
Posted 4:17 PM 14/5/08
@1drew3: absolutely ! another shout out for geosetter, and the developer is very responsive.
daftary
Rob O.
Posted 8:31 PM 14/5/08
You can getoag your website or blog too...
Geoblogging - How to Geotag Your Blog
Rob O.
enine
Posted 9:47 PM 14/5/08
That being said though, I have thousands of old pictures that I'd like to go back through and geotag and am trying to come up with a sample way. for ones where I know the location say insiade a building or somehting I look up its cordinates and tag them with exiftool
enine
enine
Posted 9:46 PM 14/5/08
Seems these talked about options are all manual. When we come back from even a same day trip with 400 pictures draghing and dropping them onto a map is going to take too much time. As other commenters are saying, use a GPS log and tool to add the info from that to the pictures in bulk.
enine
Johnjoe0110
Posted 9:42 PM 14/5/08
Get an N95 and install Nokia Location Tagger from Nokia Beta Labs - this works in the background & fires up the GPS whenever you start the camera, for fully automatic geotagging.
I wonder if the new iphone will have GPS?
Johnjoe0110
moontear
Posted 9:34 PM 14/5/08
Geosetter FTW! Really overlooked software, but after I found it it is simply the best for manual tagging (as I don't have a GPS)
moontear
enine
Posted 9:26 PM 14/5/08
@rlee:
The geo tags within the picture only allow a single point and a direction if the gps or camera implements it. So what you do is store the point the camera was sitting at and the direction it was pointing at the time which translates to x and y long and lat facing west on Copacabana beach.
enine
freezejeans
Posted 1:23 AM 15/5/08
@enine: I think Microsoft's new geotagging tool will do batch jobs, even if you don't have a GPS log. Just started using it, might be worth a look: [www.microsoft.com]
Geosetter looks promising, thanks to those who posted about that one!
freezejeans
geohunt.ca
Posted 3:06 AM 15/5/08
What are my options on a mac? I used to use picasa and google earth to do it, but now I dont know what to use...
geohunt.ca
andrewheiss
Posted 3:38 AM 15/5/08
Geotagger works great on a Mac - select a whole bunch of pictures, select a point in Google Earth, drag the pictures on the Geotagger icon in the dock, and you have a whole bunch of pictures with lat/long info. Amazing!
[craig.stanton.net.nz]
andrewheiss
geohunt.ca
Posted 4:55 AM 15/5/08
Looks good... downloading now!
geohunt.ca
rlee
Posted 7:20 AM 15/5/08
@enine: Point plus direction? That's good to know; thanks.
rlee
enine
Posted 10:09 PM 15/5/08
@freezejeans:
But that would require using a tool and OS made by Microsoft and all the cost and time spent on maintaining it :)
enine
enine
Posted 10:12 PM 15/5/08
@rlee:
There are actaully more than that even, depending on what tool you use and if it recognizes/supports it.
[www.sno.phy.queensu.ca]
I've been using exiftool for a while and sript things out like the comment, that way I can edit the EXIF comment and the special microsoft comment in the exif data (Microsoft refused to follow standarda again and had their own added to the exif spec). By editing both sets of fields my comments can be seen in real photo tools and by windows users.
enine