Sunday, December 12, 2021

How to Geo Tag your Photos

This is not meant to be a step by step guide.

The easiest way is perhaps just use our iPhone, the pictures are geotagged unless you turn off the location thingy in the setting.

I think many years ago I tried that already.  Back then I was using an Android phone and some Nikon D7000 camera I believe.  But things haven't changed much for me since then:  my cameras still lack GPS.  I still don't have any commercial reason to geo tag my pictures other than I feel like to and because I can.  When exporting my pictures to JPEG, my routinely remove GPS data even I don't have them to begin with.

One of the few things I discovered is that Lightroom enables me to geo tag my pictures with the Map module (or whatever parlance Adobe uses).

So all I need is a software that allows me to create a GPX file from my iPhone.  I just downloaded one from Open GPX Tracker.  I proceeded to set the camera clock closest possible to my iPhone's as I suspect time will be used to match the picture taken to the gpx file time data.

Once I got the GPX file to my computer and Lightroom can just use some magic to get the GPS data to the picture files.  If I don't want to be precise I can perhaps just drag whatever pictures to a location that's close enough without even the use of any GPX files.

So I just save myself some $90.  Adorama used department sells some GP-1 for $59 or so without explicitly stating whether cable included or not so I take it it doesn't while KEH sells one for some $90 with cable included.  I checked NikonUSA, the cable is selling the cable for $69.99 while I don't seem to find any pricing for the GP-1 or GP-1A, I think the 1A is the latest model and NikonUSA doesn't bother to say the difference.  I have to find it out with a Google search.  The 1A has some bigger screw on for better secured connection ... or something but feature wise, they are the same.  Anyway I won't be buying one with or without the cable. 

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