Geotagging

Geotag your photos (almost) automatically

I have recently started to geotag my photos so I know exactly where they were taken.

Wikipedia's definition of geotagging are the following:

Wikipedia: "Geotagging, Also known as Geocoding, is the process of adding Geographical identification metadata two Various media som websites, RSS feeds or images. This data Usually består latitude longitude coordinates, om IT kan også include altitude and place names. "

This means translated:

Geotagging, also known as Geocoding, is the process whereby you add geographic information metadata to various media such as Web pages, RSS feeds or images. This information consists mostly of longitude and latitude coordinates, but it can also include altitude and place names

I've via the blog OgleEarth who writes about everything related to Google Earth, found a link to a rather easy instructions on how to geotag your photos.

The original guide can be found here .

And I say, of course, thanks to Duncan Rawlinson, Vancouver, Canada who have made the instructions.

I will hereafter try to make the corresponding instructions in Danish.

Geotag your photos (almost) automatically

I have recently started to geotag my photos so I know exactly where they were taken.

Wikipedia's definition of geotagging are the following:

Wikipedia: "Geotagging, Also known as Geocoding, is the process of adding Geographical identification metadata two Various media som websites, RSS feeds or images. This data Usually består latitude longitude coordinates, om IT kan også include altitude and place names. "

This means translated:

Geotagging, also known as Geocoding, is the process whereby you add geographic information metadata to various media such as Web pages, RSS feeds or images. This information consists mostly of longitude and latitude coordinates, but it can also include altitude and place names

I've via the blog OgleEarth who writes about everything related to Google Earth, found a link to a rather easy instructions on how to geotag your photos.

The original guide can be found here .

And I say, of course, thanks to Duncan Rawlinson, Vancouver, Canada who have made the instructions.

I will hereafter try to make the corresponding instructions in Danish.

Many people have started to geotag their photos on Flickr (and it was there I came across it first) and then look at the pictures in Google Earth and Google Maps. In late August 2005 there were about 58,000 pictures on Flickr that was geotagged.

This approach is probably the closest you can come to automate the process to geotag their photos without having a GPSr built in camera. This process works by combining the time your photo was taken with the track log into your GPS. This means the user bell relieved to turn up in the track log and determine your position. This approach means working on a Windows PC, but in the comments on the original article describes an approach that should work on a Mac.

You need the following:

The 2 WWMX files I've downloaded and put on my website but they can also be downloaded from the official website here .

Here is the procedure:

  1. Set date and time on your digital camera. Use the time from your GPS.
  2. Set your GPS to save track (track) and go outside and take some pictures while it is running.
  3. When you get home so save your images in a folder on your PC.
  4. Download your track log from your GPS to "GPS Track Download" (WWMX Track Download), it works anyway with Garmin E-Trex Legend, and probably other Garmin devices. Otherwise use Easy / Expert GPS.
  5. Store your track as a. Gpx file.
  6. Open WWMX Location Stamper.
  7. Add all of your photo. Menu: Photos, Add Photos ...
  8. Add trace log. Menu: Tracks, Add Tracks ... (. Gpx file)
  9. Select all the images and click "Apply tracks" (lower right corner). This inserts the longitude and latitudes coordinates in the EXIF ​​metadata in the image.
  10. Open Flickr Importr.
  11. Add all your pictures, they should not be too big as Flickr Importr so even reducing the size and the metadata that is added is lost, please note that geotags automagically generated (Max size 2048 × 1536)
  12. Upload all your photos with Flickr Importr

In Flickr Importr you can also add descriptions to each picture and make them part of a set before you upload them. You can also add additional tags.

You can now view your photos in Google Earth or Google Maps. In Google Earth you can open it. Gpx file you saved in Section 5, it will be tracked by GPS on top of satellite images.

To view your images on geobloggers.com you can use the link below, you just need to fix it to use your Flickr

To see my geotagged images on geobloggers.com you can use this

To see my pictures in Goggle Earth you can click on this [Urldisplaymode = nomap] .

This will give you a kml file which you can let Google Earth open and show you your geotagged images. If, as mentioned earlier also had opened the associated GPX file you will now see your geotagged images, and your GPS tracks. Be aware that geobloggers.com very fast has become very popular so their server can be a little unstable.

When you're tired of looking at your own pictures you can use the following link to see other users' images: http://www.geobloggers.com/feeds/flickr.kml [urldisplaymode = nomap]

Here is a list of videos that have been geotagged via del.icio.us: http://www.vlogmap.org/i/data/vlogmap_geovlogged.kmz [urldisplaymode = nomap]

This process is different from adding geotags in Flickr directly on an essential point. This process adds the coordinates directly into the EXIF ​​metadata in the image itself, it means that whatever else you do with the picture now so it will contain the coordinates. It will not only have tags on Flickr.

It is amusing that for all this to succeed then the U.S. Department of Defense (GPS), Microsoft (WWMX Location Stamper), Yahoo (Flickr) and Google (Google Earth and Maps) work together.

Links can also be recommended are:

http://geobloggers.blogspot.com/

http://www.geobloggers.com/

http://www.wwmx.org/

Many people have started to geotag their photos on Flickr (and it was there I came across it first) and then look at the pictures in Google Earth and Google Maps. In late August 2005 there were about 58,000 pictures on Flickr that was geotagged.

This approach is probably the closest you can come to automate the process to geotag their photos without having a GPSr built in camera. This process works by combining the time your photo was taken with the track log into your GPS. This means the user bell relieved to turn up in the track log and determine your position. This approach means working on a Windows PC, but in the comments on the original article describes an approach that should work on a Mac.

You need the following:

The 2 WWMX files I've downloaded and put on my website but they can also be downloaded from the official website here .

Here is the procedure:

  1. Set date and time on your digital camera. Use the time from your GPS.
  2. Set your GPS to save track (track) and go outside and take some pictures while it is running.
  3. When you get home so save your images in a folder on your PC.
  4. Download your track log from your GPS to "GPS Track Download" (WWMX Track Download), it works anyway with Garmin E-Trex Legend, and probably other Garmin devices. Otherwise use Easy / Expert GPS.
  5. Store your track as a. Gpx file.
  6. Open WWMX Location Stamper.
  7. Add all of your photo. Menu: Photos, Add Photos ...
  8. Add trace log. Menu: Tracks, Add Tracks ... (. Gpx file)
  9. Select all the images and click "Apply tracks" (lower right corner). This inserts the longitude and latitudes coordinates in the EXIF ​​metadata in the image.
  10. Open Flickr Importr.
  11. Add all your pictures, they should not be too big as Flickr Importr so even reducing the size and the metadata that is added is lost, please note that geotags automagically generated (Max size 2048 × 1536)
  12. Upload all your photos with Flickr Importr

In Flickr Importr you can also add descriptions to each picture and make them part of a set before you upload them. You can also add additional tags.

You can now view your photos in Google Earth or Google Maps. In Google Earth you can open it. Gpx file you saved in Section 5, it will be tracked by GPS on top of satellite images.

To view your images on geobloggers.com you can use the link below, you just need to fix it to use your Flickr

To see my geotagged images on geobloggers.com you can use this

To see my pictures in Goggle Earth you can click on this [Urldisplaymode = nomap] .

This will give you a kml file which you can let Google Earth open and show you your geotagged images. If, as mentioned earlier also had opened the associated GPX file you will now see your geotagged images, and your GPS tracks. Be aware that geobloggers.com very fast has become very popular so their server can be a little unstable.

When you're tired of looking at your own pictures you can use the following link to see other users' images: http://www.geobloggers.com/feeds/flickr.kml [urldisplaymode = nomap]

Here is a list of videos that have been geotagged via del.icio.us: http://www.vlogmap.org/i/data/vlogmap_geovlogged.kmz [urldisplaymode = nomap]

This process is different from adding geotags in Flickr directly on an essential point. This process adds the coordinates directly into the EXIF ​​metadata in the image itself, it means that whatever else you do with the picture now so it will contain the coordinates. It will not only have tags on Flickr.

It is amusing that for all this to succeed then the U.S. Department of Defense (GPS), Microsoft (WWMX Location Stamper), Yahoo (Flickr) and Google (Google Earth and Maps) work together.

Links can also be recommended are:

http://geobloggers.blogspot.com/

http://www.geobloggers.com/

http://www.wwmx.org/

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