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- Lightroom geo-encoder plugin
- Enable geo information on flickr before you upload geotagged images
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In the two recent episodes of tfttf there has been a lot of talk about
geotagging. Here’s another tip how to geocode your photos fast and
easy without the use of a GPS logger device. All of this is only cool
if you aren’t too fussy about super duper precise geocoding. Otherwise it is
too much manual work. In that case Please stop reading here.
I personally do not need to know the street corner I was standing on when I
was taking a photo. It’s good enough for me to know in which city or at which
place it was taken.
Here’s how it goes:
1) get program geotagger (Mac only, freeware, http://craig.stanton.net.nz/code/geotagger/)
2) navigate to the location in question in google earth
3) drag the photos (single photos, multiple photos, complete folders) onto
the geotagger dock icon
4) wait a bit, done!
I don’t take issue with my images not being geocoded to the exact location.
If you also feel comfortable with this level of granularity in your geocoding then this might
also be a good way to geocode your back catalogue! Many people have probably organised their
images by location/event in folders and these locations/events are likely to have happened
in a rather defined spot that you can go to in google earth. So it is very easy
to just google-earth to that location, drag the folder onto geotagger, boom,
done.
As I pointed out in the beginning, this might only be of interest if that
level of accuracy is good enough for you. On the other hand geocoding
thousands of older images with their exact goelocation is not a practical
approach. So maybe you want to apply this method for your existing images
and use a real geologger for the future.
Martin
Thanks for some great information!
Whoops! You’ve got an extra space in the link to the lightroom plug-in. It should be:
http://regex.info/blog/2008-10-29/979
Keep it up Chris, have a good one!
Hi Chris,
thanks for the great information about geotagging! This was exactly what I was looking for.
The Link to the LR Plugin isn’t working.
bye,
Steppenwolf71
Tx Anton, fixed it
Heya Chris,
Some great info there! I am thinking of implementing GeoTagging on my site OurPhotos. As it seems quite popular these days.
Thanks, keep up the good work
Hi Chris,
I have been using HoudagGeo a lot, and even made a tutorial (in Dutch) on it a while back (http://www.itutorpodcast.com/2009/03/24/itp0011-uw-fotos-geotaggen-met-houdahgeo/). Really love the application, and this is how I use it :
- Download the RAW pictures from a memory card to my local HD
- Bring them in to HoudahGeo and use that to link it to a tracklog I created with my GPS
- Get the GeoTags into the Images (making a copy of them)
- Now import into Aperture
Works perfectly. I have also been testing a plugin for Aperture called Maperture (http://www.ubermind.com/products/maperturepro.php) which is great, I really like it, but sadly somehow the GeoTags disappear when exporting the pictures from Aperture. Not sure what is wrong but apparently it is something Aperture related.
Regards,
Stefaan
Tested HoudahGeo and GPSPhotoLinker, seems to me that both programms are doing the same job.
HoudahGeo has a beautiful maclike interface but GPSPhotoLinker is free…
I’ve been using GPicSync (from http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/) to retro tag many of my pictures from hiking and cycling trips. It’s similar to a number of the programs listed above, but provides a slightly different UI. Is is free (currently), and does run on Windows…