“Geo-tagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs…” (source: wikipedia)
The problem:
you go on a hike or somewhere out in nature and take pictures with a camera instead of your cell phone because you want decent photos. However, you would like to geo-tag these photos so you would remember where they were taken.
I tried apps that let you mark a lat/long, but that just adds an extra thing to do every time I want to take a picture, who has time to do that when you’re on the go?
The solution:
Android phone + camera + few desktop apps = eureka!
and here’s how I did it:
The problem:
you go on a hike or somewhere out in nature and take pictures with a camera instead of your cell phone because you want decent photos. However, you would like to geo-tag these photos so you would remember where they were taken.
I tried apps that let you mark a lat/long, but that just adds an extra thing to do every time I want to take a picture, who has time to do that when you’re on the go?
The solution:
Android phone + camera + few desktop apps = eureka!
and here’s how I did it:
- Sync the time on your smartphone and your camera before you start (I will explain later), doesn’t have to be to the second, but at least to the minute.
- Track your locations. I like to use Google’s My Tracks app. I’ve found it best to keep the default settings, trust Google. There are alternatives for iPhone, like EveryTrail
- When I’m back at my PC I export my track as a GPX file (which is really an XML file with lat, long, and time coordinates) and save it to my PC
- Download the pictures from your camera to your PC
- Matching the pictures to locations:
I use a program called Grazer where I load the GPX file and select the folder with my pics and it matches the times stamp on the picture to the time stamp in the GPX file.
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