gpx file which is one of the formats that the geotagging software I used wanted. I downloaded the track and saved it as a. The software that I used was EasyGPS available from and it is a free piece of software. The next job was to download the track data from my GPS. The reason for converting to JPEG is that most of the automatic geotagging software will not tag RAW images and rightly so too I do not want any software writing to my RAW images.
GEOTAG PHOTO SOFTWARE TRIAL
I did no editing to them as this was just a trial to ensure that everything worked. I downloaded all my photographs onto my PC and then converted them all from RAW to JPEG images. When I got back home I turned the GPS off. I then went out for a 30km ride and stopped a few times along the way to take some photographs. I then put the camera bag in the pannier of my motorcycle. Depending on the settings of your GPS this can cause a problem (more on this later).Īs I left home I turned the GPS on and put it in my camera bag. This is critical to ensure that when a photograph is recorded by the camera that the GPS knows where you are as the software uses the time the photograph was taken to match up with the GPS position at that time. I then adjusted the time on my camera to match the GPS time. Before I left home I made sure the GPS was working and checked the time that it was displaying from the GPS satellites. How did you make it all work?įor this test I just took my camera and a 17-70mm lens and the Garmin GPS.
I used an old Garmin GPS12 that I had as a spare hand held GPS from when I had a boat and a Canon EOS 20D. What equipment did you use for Geotagging? I will detail the software that I used later in this article. You will need a GPS that records ‘track data’, a cable to connect your GPS to your computer and a digital camera and some suitable software. Alternatively the GPS and camera can be independent and the location data can be added later by software. Some digital cameras are now coming equipped with a GPS to record this data automatically and others allow the fitting of a special GPS receiver to the flash hot shoe and then they communicate the data to the camera usually by an additional cable connection. The second is to use a GPS to log the location of the photograph and then add that information either automatically or manually to the EXIF data. There are two ways to Geotag an image, the first is by looking at a map and working out exactly where the photograph was taken and then entering the information manually into the photograph. The EXIF data is recorded within the digital image file that the camera records and this data can be read by any suitable software. Geotagging is the recording of the latitude and longitude of the location where a photograph was taken and then the addition of this data to the EXIF information that was captured by the camera when the photograph was taken. I was recently reading about the geotagging of photographs’ and decided that I would investigate it further and if appropriate try it for myself. You can see some of Colin’s images here and learn more about him at the conclusion of this article.
GEOTAG PHOTO SOFTWARE HOW TO
In this post Colin Spencer gives us a good introduction to how to Geotag images.
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