The storing of photographer's geographic coordinates in image metadata.
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What options do I have for GPS/Geotagging with a digital SLR?
I would like to track GPS points while I am photographing with my Canon EOS (5D) camera.
What option do I have track them and what do you recommend?
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How do you Geocode photos based on a GPX track in Lightroom 4?
Lightroom 4 adds geotagging capabilities, including the ability to load GPX tracks from a GPS recorder.
I used to use Microsoft Pro Photo Tools (now discontinued) which would cross reference the ...
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What can you do with embedded GPS locally?
The Sony Alpha SLT-A55 made its way to me and it has a built-in GPS. Each photo is marked with its GPS coordinates, elevation and orientation. I am aware that if I upload such a photo to Picasa or ...
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How can I create a map with GPS data from EXIF?
I've been taking photos all over the country last year and now I want to create a map with all the places I've been. Luckily all my photos are geotagged which makes the whole process easier.
The main ...
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Lightroom 4 - Geocoding photos using location-based keywords
I have tagged all my photos consistently with location-based keywords, e.g. Geography > France > Paris. Is there a way to automatically copy this information from my Geography keyword hierarchy to the ...
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What GPS would you recommend for geo-tagging?
I do quite a lot of photowalks and I'd like to geo-tag my RAW (CR2) files from my Canon 500D. I'm currently considering the following options:
Use my iPhone 3GS with an application like Geotag that ...
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Where, oh where, are the GPS Point-and-shoot cameras?
"Geotagging" has been around for a number of years now. Why haven't the major camera producers (Canon, Nikon, etc.) gotten around to installing internal GPS systems in their point-and-shoot cameras to ...
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Why are high-end compacts still shipping without GPS?
All the major high-end[*] compact point-and-shoots have been refreshed recently:
Panasonic DMC-LX7 / Leica D-Lux 6
Sony DSC-RX100
Olympus XZ-2
Nikon P7700
Canon G15
None of them have GPS built in. ...
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iPhone location scouting app that reads geo-location exif data
Does anyone know of a iPhone/iOS app that helps with scouting or keeping a file of good locations? The big caveat is that it should be able to read exif location data of photos previously taken that ...
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Geotagging with standalone unit or smartphone app?
Im pretty much buckled up and ready for my holiday in South America, although theres still something i havent got resolved yet, and thats geotagging of my images ill be taking during my holiday.
I ...
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What program could I use to create a map-based slideshow?
For travel photography I am a fan of slideshows where you actually see where the picture was taken on a map and zoom to the next location.
I just found out that almighty Apple already did this in ...
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What on-camera geotagger do you recommend for a Canon DSLR?
I have been looking for a solution for geotagging with my Canon DSLR (T2i). It seems the most common solution is to use a separate standalone GPS unit and adding the tags in later during processing ...
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Is there software that will do reverse geocoding to convert photographs' GPS locations to addresses?
I am using a standalone GPS tracker that produces GPX files and then clock-sync photos with it using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools. This works pretty well. But I was also using a feature of Pro Photo ...
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How can I convert geotagged location to a collection of descriptive tags?
If I have a photo which has a geotagged location, is there a way of automatically converting this location to a collection or hierarchy of descriptive tags?
For example, a GPS location near the ...
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Geotagging vs. Keywording
I used to keyword all my photos with the "Where?" keywords so that I easily could find photos from a certain location. But with the arrival of Lightroom 4 geotagging and reverse geocoding has become a ...
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Can I use a different map source other than Google Maps in Lightroom 4?
Google Maps are horribly outdated in my area. Is there any way to use a different map source, e.g. OpenStreetMap, inside Lightroom 4's map module?
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What caused incorrect geotagging of my aerial photos?
I tried to geotag my photos from my DSLR using GeoSetter software. Although I corrected the time shift (I had 16 minutes difference between camera and GPS time) I am still unable to geotag my photos ...
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Mass reverse geocoding in Lightroom or an external tool
I have nearly 3000 images in my Lightroom library that have GPS data but no textual location info. How can I mass reverse geocode all these pictures?
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How can I use an Android smartphone as GPS to geotag my photos?
I have recently bought an Android smartphone and I would like to use the integrated GPS to geo-tag my photos. Does anyone have any experience doing that? (Which GPS logging app to use, with what ...
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Is there any software which displays geotagging plus compass data visualizations?
I was eyeing Pentax's new GPS hotshoe accessory for geotagging photos and noticed it also includes a digital compass and will record the camera direction as well as latitude & longitude.
That got ...
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How to make Lightroom recognize geotags in NEF files?
I usually geotag my pictures with Picasa + Google Earth, while using Lightroom 3.4 for everything else. While this works fine with JPEG pictures, I've discovered that apparently LR doesn't recognize ...
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What on-camera geotagger do you recommend for a Nikon DSLR?
I'm looking to purchase an on camera geo tagging device. I currently have this one for my Nikon D40. I'm upgrading to the Nikon D700 which is compatable with on body gps devices, and I'd rather not ...
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What free software exists for geotagging photos?
I do a lot of hikes and bike tours. On these tours I use a GPS device to track the route. I also use my compact camera to take some pictures.
Now I want to use geotagging software to enhance the ...
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Are there any services to search for photographs of a specific location or building?
I'm trying to find pictures of the building that used to house my local library. We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of our move to a new facility, and the building still exists (not sure what it ...
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Can places be assigned to a whole folder (and subfolders) in aperture 3?
I recently took several thousand pictures in India. As a shot I was placing them in folders by location. When I retured home a started using Aperture 3 (first time with Aperture). I imported the ...
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Should I geotag the location of the subject or the photographer?
If I take a photo of a distant object with a zoom lens, and then geotag it manually, would it be more useful to tag the location of the distant object (what is seen in the photo) or the location from ...
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How do I work with multiple timezones and GPS logging?
I'm embarking on a trip across Europe in a few weeks. I have a QStarz GPS logger that I intend to use to log the trip and I will use the tools built into Aperture to geotag my photos when I return.
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How common is it for cameras to have a gyroscope?
How many cameras apart from the iPhone have a gyroscope for orientation?
Am I right to assume that there is a standard way to “tag” an image with the direction the camera was pointing in, as well as ...
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Is there any combination of camera, GPS and software which support the GPSDestXYZ exif tags?
As Patrick Kowalzick pointed out in a previous discussion, the EXIF standards since 1998 have included tags to document the destination point of a photograph. Tags include GPSDestLatitude, ...
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Will DSLR models support built-in geotagging in the next year? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What options do I have for GPS/Geotagging with a digital SLR?
I have a Panasonic DMC-TZ10 and what I really love about the cam is the build-in geo tagging. Now I'm ...
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How do I geotag photos in Apple Aperture?
I have a series of photos I took and a GPS log of my whereabouts for the corresponding time. I would like to geotag the photos with the GPS tracks, matched by timestamp.
Using Aperture 3, I can go to ...
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Can I get GPS data into my Nikon RAW files at time of capture?
On a Nikon DSLR such as the D7000 which doesn't have integrated GPS, is it possible to add some sort of accessory to the camera which will embed GPS data into the files at time of capture?
I see a ...
