Comments on: Where’d You Take That Photo? The Magic of GPS https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/ Tech gear, gadgets, reviews, and advice Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:31:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Jay https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-688583 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-688583 I think today’s smartphones and today’s wi-fi enabled cameras should be able to talk to each other. I’d like to be able to turn on wi-fi on my camera, connect to the phone and have the camera pick up the GPS coordinates from the phone whenever a photo is taken while connected. At that point I wouldn’t want to save the photo to the phone, as that is time consuming and can be done later …I just use the phone as a geotagger instead of having to cart around yet another device to get that information. As it is now we travel and take a cell phone pictures at every spot we use DSLR’s and then when all the images from the trip are in Lightroom, we copy the GPS coordinates from the cell phone photos to the DSLR photos taken in that location. That’s done fairly easily in Lightroom but it would be nice if the coordinates were already stored with the images instead of having to map them that way. With today’s Wi-Fi technology available in both the phones and the cameras I just fail to see why no app has been written to do this yet.

]]> By: saroj https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-655958 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-655958 please help for all image photo should be merge with latitude and longitude

]]> By: Dave Dean https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-644448 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-644448 In reply to Andy.

I suspect this tool will be able to do what you need — take a look at this forum entry in particular. It’ll take a bit of trial and error, though, so be sure you have backups of everything before you start. Good luck! 🙂

]]> By: Andy https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-644447 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-644447 Dave,
That is excellent!!!! and I can’t thank you enough for your help with this.
however, I have one more step to go I think, in order to do what I want to do, which is order all of the photos I have by street name, batch select them and file them into street folders.
In order to do this, I need to now attach the street location names, to the metadata of each of the photos from the .csv file I have now created, so that each photo file in MS Explorer, has a field which now includes its street name, and GPS coordinates (if possible), this would then allow me to arrange all photos by street name, and grab and drop.

Thanks again for your help its fantastic, really appreciate the effort too!

Regards,
Andrew

]]> By: Dave Dean https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-644442 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-644442 In reply to Andy.

Hi Andy,
It’s a bit beyond the scope of this article, but it sounded like an interesting project, so I spent a bit of time figuring it out for you. Good news — it’s not particularly difficult.
First, download the EXIF extraction tool listed in this article. Tell it the folder that has the photos you want to use, an output file name, and select ‘latitude’ and ‘longitude’ with the checkboxes. You’ll end up with a .csv file that has the name of each file, with its latitude and longitude alongside.
Open the .csv file in Excel (or whatever spreadsheet program you use), and copy the latitude and longitude columns. Now, go to this site, and paste the values into the input box. Select only ‘output address’ from the options in the “Batch Geocode Output Fields” section, and hit the Geocode button. You’ll get a list of street addresses in the output box, which you can copy and paste back alongside the other information in the .csv file. Now, you’ve got a list of file names, with the latitude, longitude and street addresses alongside.
Hope that’s what you were after!

]]> By: Andy https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-644439 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-644439 Hi
I have hundreds of site photos that I want to organise into location folders by Street name, so I’m looking to do this in MS explorer. Is it possible to get the GPS data into fields and use a programme like Picasa or something similar to give me the street names in a tabulated format for each photo so I can then file all the photos organised by the street name?

]]> By: Pic2Map https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-643782 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-643782 I hope more cameras start using geotagging like smartphones do, and when they, hope they use better chips. The current GPS equipments in many brands are simply poor even under best conditions…

As a side note, If you just want a quick and easy way to visualise a photos location online, I would suggest http://www.pic2map.com which utilizes EXIF GPS information to map a photo.

]]> By: Chris Backe https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-643338 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-643338 Thanks Sandalsand – I actually considered one of the integrated ones myself – if you know you’ll be sticking with your DSLR for the long-term, it’s a great investment.

]]> By: Sandalsand https://toomanyadapters.com/photo-location-gps/#comment-643337 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=12688#comment-643337 Good article! I’ll be looking for an integrated GPS tracking next time I buy a DSLR. In the meantime I sort my pictures by date taken and make sure to have a few smart phone shots in between the others. In Picasa that facilitates the geotagging of my other images.

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