Comments on: GPS Photo GeoTagging I – Two Simple Solutions

By: GPS Enables Camera - Mac-Forums.com

GPS Enables Camera - Mac-Forums.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:45:31 +0000

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By: Mic

Mic — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:08:12 +0000

A simple web-tool for geotagging images is GeoImgr (www.geoimgr.com).

By: Scott Olendorf

Scott Olendorf — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:52:56 +0000

I found that Grazer seem to have the timezone settings backwards. Instead of using -5:00 for EST I had to use +5:00. Then it matched everything up fine. The phototags work great with Picasa and Google Earth.

By: maphan

maphan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:47:02 +0000

I use GPSed.com service for recording GPS tracks just from mobile and storing them in online archive. They offer simple and free photo-geotagging Windows-based software: GPSed Photo Take’n'Pin (http://photo.gpsed.com). In one click geotagged photos will be opened in Google Earth, in precise places they were taken at. I recommend everyone to try it out.

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:54:47 +0000

Yes, locr gets covered later in this series.

By: Bo

Bo — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:57:35 +0000

Do you know locr? locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you donâ??t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
Have a look at http://www.locr.com.

By: Matidio

Matidio — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:46:20 +0000

Now it’s clearer. Thanks for your explanation. I also wrote a mail to them but till now they didn’t answer …

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:21:18 +0000

Yes, it’s not very clear; it might be better to say that there are standards, but they change, and there may be different ways to implement them that cause issues with compatibility. It wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened with a file format. Part of my confusion also comes from a program I’ll be writing up shortly that creates geotags that Picasa won’t recognize; but if you modify the EXIF header slightly, Picasa can recognize them. I thought that was the case with PhotoMapper, but I was wrong – modifying the EXIF header didn’t make photos tagged with PhotoMapper show up properly in Picasa. I also discovered that several other programs also don’t properly pick up geotags embedded by PhotoMapper (Irfan View, Opanda IExif). A brief look at the PhotoMapper online help files seems to indicate that they’re writing the right tags, but there’s no info about why other programs might have difficulties recognizing those tags. I have sent an email to the authors of PhotoMapper asking them about this, and I’ll post a followup here when I hear from them.

By: Matidio

Matidio — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:07:40 +0000

Sorry, it’s not really clear what you’re writing. On one side you’re telling that there are inconsistent standards for GPS Data in EXIF headers on the other side you write that the tags written by Photomapper aren’t a standard GPS tag.
If there is an inconsistency in the standard than nothing conforms to the standard because there exists no standard … therefore Photomapper by definition cannot write correct tags.

Did you report the problem to the authors of Photomapper?