Is anyone doing geotagging?
Geotagging is the process of putting GPS information into your photographs. I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks at ten year old photos and wonders "where was that taken?" With geotagged images, you can just right-click the image and find out where it was.
For new photographs, it's quite easy to do. I bought myself a standard Bluetooth GPS receiver (like this), and a piece of software for my phone (GETrack).
When I am going somewhere I expect to be taking photographs, I start GETrack running on my phone. Every twenty seconds or so (you can configure the interval), GETrack asks the GPS receiver "where am I" and logs the information.
When I get home, as well as getting the pictures from the camera I also get the GPS logfile from GETrack. Then I give them both to the WWMX Location Stamper, which matches the times up to the photographs, and adds the GPS location information in to the pictures. Of course, the camera's clock must be set to the correct time...
So that's the data into the pictures, how do I make use of it? One easy way is to use Opanda Exif Viewer. With this installed you can right-click on an image, then choose an option to show you precisely where the picture was taken using Google maps. Also, Picasa and many other programs can understand the location information.
If you have already-existing photographs that you are wanting to GeoTag, Picasa may be your friend. Choose the picture that you want, and from the Tools menu choose "Geotag". You will then be taken to Google Eart, and shown a set of cross-hairs. Move to where the picture was taken, click "done" and the location information will be added to your photograph.
As you can probably guessed, I am quite enthused. I am currently writing a program to grab information from www.geonames.com and add that into photographs. That will give me things like the name of the nearest town and the country in which the picture was taking - great for auto-generating tags for use in Windows Live Photo Gallery (I did try a program called GPicSync, but it gives some information that I don't want, and I don't want to have to try to get python working on my PC to fix it!)
So, is anyone else geotagging?
regards,
/alan
Geotagging is the process of putting GPS information into your photographs. I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks at ten year old photos and wonders "where was that taken?" With geotagged images, you can just right-click the image and find out where it was.
For new photographs, it's quite easy to do. I bought myself a standard Bluetooth GPS receiver (like this), and a piece of software for my phone (GETrack).
When I am going somewhere I expect to be taking photographs, I start GETrack running on my phone. Every twenty seconds or so (you can configure the interval), GETrack asks the GPS receiver "where am I" and logs the information.
When I get home, as well as getting the pictures from the camera I also get the GPS logfile from GETrack. Then I give them both to the WWMX Location Stamper, which matches the times up to the photographs, and adds the GPS location information in to the pictures. Of course, the camera's clock must be set to the correct time...
So that's the data into the pictures, how do I make use of it? One easy way is to use Opanda Exif Viewer. With this installed you can right-click on an image, then choose an option to show you precisely where the picture was taken using Google maps. Also, Picasa and many other programs can understand the location information.
If you have already-existing photographs that you are wanting to GeoTag, Picasa may be your friend. Choose the picture that you want, and from the Tools menu choose "Geotag". You will then be taken to Google Eart, and shown a set of cross-hairs. Move to where the picture was taken, click "done" and the location information will be added to your photograph.
As you can probably guessed, I am quite enthused. I am currently writing a program to grab information from www.geonames.com and add that into photographs. That will give me things like the name of the nearest town and the country in which the picture was taking - great for auto-generating tags for use in Windows Live Photo Gallery (I did try a program called GPicSync, but it gives some information that I don't want, and I don't want to have to try to get python working on my PC to fix it!)
So, is anyone else geotagging?
regards,
/alan
