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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 problem is that I haven't found a program that puts in a map all the photos you have. Picasa has a great embedded function for this, but it only works with the photos you have selected or belong to a specific album.

Is there software that scans all my files and creates a map accordingly?

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    \$\begingroup\$ Any particular preferred operating system? \$\endgroup\$
    – Rowland Shaw
    Jan 18, 2013 at 8:46
  • \$\begingroup\$ Uhmmm, xp? I'm using a PC platform, so any window based solution (that no requires an specific version) is ok for me. \$\endgroup\$
    – Andres
    Jan 18, 2013 at 20:04
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    \$\begingroup\$ I have a strong preference for making these questions consider all operating systems. Many programs are cross platform, and it's nice to at least know about options that may be available on other OSes. If we have separate questions for each OS, there's a lot of duplication. \$\endgroup\$
    – mattdm
    Jan 20, 2013 at 22:09
  • \$\begingroup\$ @mattdm - I think that is a good rule to "open up" the question to all platforms, although as a question "asker" clearly they might only have access to certain platforms so the other ones may not help them at all. I like the idea of less duplicates. \$\endgroup\$
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Photoshop Lightroom does this with the "map" tab. Here is an example of my shots mapped with it:enter image description here

You can download a free trial from Adobe or purchase it for $100-150USD.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Sadly this is a LR4 is only compatible with Win7 and i'm stuck here with XP :( \$\endgroup\$
    – Andres
    Jan 13, 2013 at 15:06
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    \$\begingroup\$ That isn't entirely true. It runs on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, as well as multiple different versions of OS X. Windows XP is 11 years old so I guess they just decided to stop supporting it. \$\endgroup\$
    – dpollitt
    Jan 13, 2013 at 15:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ Well, I meant Win7 and up. \$\endgroup\$
    – Andres
    Jan 13, 2013 at 16:19
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    \$\begingroup\$ Telling people to upgrade is a sliperry slope. Often the an application requires a new OS and a new OS requires a new computer and a new computer requires new money.... and it may not work with other legacy application that someone needs, and that requires new VM software.... \$\endgroup\$
    – Itai
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    \$\begingroup\$ On the other hand XP is a 12 years old OS, and Microsoft will not support it anymore after March 2014. With this I mean: I agree that upgrading the OS just to have a geotagged map of photos is overkill, but probably it's an upgrade that should be planned this year anyway. There is also the alternative of buying a Windows 8 x86 DVD and install it on virtualbox in the current system, and run Lightroom in the virtual machine. \$\endgroup\$
    – Marco Mp
    Jan 20, 2013 at 19:00
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Geotag may work for you. It's written in Java and is compatible with a number of OS's. You can even run it from the linked site without actually installing it on your system (insofar as a Java app isn't installed when you run it...)

I would recommend that whatever package you decide on that you make backup copies of your image directories until you're satisfied that the geotagging software hasn't caused any problems with the image files...

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Although it doesn't have an option to recursively scan all directories, this one is the app that does exactly what i need. \$\endgroup\$
    – Andres
    Jan 20, 2013 at 21:12
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You can use Flickr for this. Simply upload your images to Flickr, and it will Map all those with geotag info.

If you prefer software that does this, I highly recommend Photolinker. I use their GPSPhotolinker software, which takes GPS track data (from a GPS device) and matches it with photos via the time stamps, then geotags the images. Photolinker takes all your geotagged images and puts them on a map. (FYI this is Mac only software)

enter image description here Photo from Early Innovations website

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Gpicsync is an open source software that can run in Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. It includes a tool to export your geotagged pictures into a KMZ file. You can then use this KMZ file to create a map in Google Maps (and probably other mapping applications).

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    – dstonek
    Jan 22, 2014 at 23:09
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Three options:

  1. For a single photo I use Pic2Map as an online solution

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  2. Photo GPS Extract as a software, which both utilize EXIF GPS information to map a photo.

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  3. For bulk photos, Canon has a software called Map Utility which works with both geotagged photos and also GPS logs from the camera itself: enter image description here

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I created a project recently that does exactly this, traverse your Google Photos and outputs a map (kml file).

https://bitbucket.org/blackey02/city-log

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I've used EveryTrail for this before. It worked really well for me, such as on a boat trip around a lake once.

Once I had the photos tagged with a time and a place, I just uploaded them (I'm pretty sure I sent them to Flickr) and had EveryTrail go get them. Once EveryTrail got them, it decoded their geotag and was able to place them on the map. Using the time stamp it was able to order them as well. Then it made a nice interactive map giving a trail and a photo at each of the points.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Could you show us an example of the end result? \$\endgroup\$
    – Imre
    Jan 15, 2013 at 8:32
  • \$\begingroup\$ And could you elaborate on your answer, maybe describe EveryTrail a bit more? \$\endgroup\$
    – MikeW ♦
    Jan 15, 2013 at 9:11
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    – jrista
    Jan 22, 2013 at 18:25
  • \$\begingroup\$ @jrista Thanks for letting me know as I'm still learning my way around the stackexchange sites. I didn't think I had enough reputation points to add comments. I forgot I don't need them to comment on my own post. (doh!) \$\endgroup\$
    – MrCarney
    Jan 22, 2013 at 22:24
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I have used http://www.photoplace.io. It loads your photos and it can create a kmz file for Google Earth, it was really easy.

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    – MikeW ♦
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this app i developed would list all your photos and show the date and location of the selected ones on a map: https://github.com/kamyar11/photo-location-on-google-maps

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I wrote a application that will read all the EXIF geotag information and create a KML file from those locations. You can open the KML file in Google Earth (or Google Maps with an account). A point is created for each photo and labeled with the file name. You can click the point and it opens a thumbnail of the image which then allows you to open the full resolution of the image. As long as the KML is in the same directory as the images you can share the directory and others can open the KML and see your photos mapped.

The zip file contains the raw Python script which is cross platform assuming you have installed the dependencies and have some programming skills.
The zip file includes an executable for Windows which is a click-and-use approach and will work on XP. There is a readme file that describes this all. Feel free to email me with problems encountered.

https://github.com/ShuksanGeomatics/Geotagged_Images_To_KML_OLD

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Photo Location Map scans image files with GPS information in a selected folder and displays them on a map.

It works on Windows or macOS.

A demo video is helpful to understand what the application looks like.

Disclosure: I developed Photo Location Map.

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I would use UrbanBird.io. It is more fun, you get the titles, descriptions, locations and dates taken auto populated and you can get suggestions of places to visit based on where you've been.

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Photo KML is almost awesome - Find it here It creates a KMZ file which contains the KML plus icons and a small copy of the photos, the KMZ can be easily redistributed, unfortunately the copy of the photos are small.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ unfortunately the copy of the photos are small I think this would not be a problem for the asker, as he is only looking to create the map of the places where he took photos. Or at least that's what I understand from his question. \$\endgroup\$
    – Dragos
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Perhaps Metadata++ (Windows 7+). See: http://www.logipole.com/

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    \$\begingroup\$ Nothing at the product page indicates that it will do any mapping at all. Have you used the program, or know that it will do what the OP asks about? \$\endgroup\$
    – scottbb ♦
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The android app A Photo Manager also supports geographic-map

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You could use "GeoTagged Photos to Points" in ArcGIS. The will Creates points from the x-, y-, and z-coordinates stored in geotagged photos. Optionally adds photo files to features in the output feature class as geodatabase attachments.

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I recently came across a pretty good online tool (Geotagged photos to KMZ) that does exactly what you need - it creates a Google Earth project in KMZ from all uploaded geotagged photos, displaying the locations of those photos. When you click on a location, the photo is displayed. The tool is available at: https://geoprocessing.online/tool/photos-to-kmz/. You can see an example and tool description at: https://kb.geoczech.org/knowledge-base/how-to-view-photos-on-a-map/

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Tonfotos indexes all your photos (and videos too - iPhone videos also have geo tags) and shows you all your events on interactive map. When zoomed out it groups together events that are near by to avoid cluttering.enter image description here

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Photo Album GPS Mapping Tool, available in the Windows Store, is by far the best tool out there. It uses the Google Maps API and it allows you to add geotags if they're not there.

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