Q: Adding Coordinates from GPS Logs EXIF Data

[enduro]

Hi All,

I have a Garmin GPS and while on a recent holiday kept it turned on for most of the time I was taking photos.

I'd like to now enter the Coordinates from the saved Track Log into the image EXIF data. This has been a want for me for some years, however I've only pretty much just gotten started on the project.

Any recommendations on which software to use?

[Borg2000]

G'day,

I use a program called GPicSync (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpicsync/files/) It was last updated on 2009-04-13 but i find it does its job well and haven't found the need to look elsewhere.

You can find some more information on the program here (http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/)

Does anyone know if Lightroom 3 can do this with an extension? or what do you use?

[jev]

Just a couple of questions first:
- do you shoot raw or jpeg and do you need the coordinates to be available in the source file?
- what format are the files from the Garmin in?
- where do you need to connect the software in the workflow? Will stand-alone software do?

[DAdeGroot]

If you are using Lightroom, the easiest way us with Jeffrey Friedl's Geotagging plugin. Just select your photos, go to File -> Plugin Extras -> Geotagging, then load your GPX file and enter the time offset that your camera was out by and voila, geotagged photos.

[sprocket]

Just be careful if your entering them manually, and what coordinates are being used. Hopefully they'l be a World UTM but some GPS's will work on a local map grid or on different projections.

Havn't actually delt with geocoding photos myself but I know a thing or two about maps being a geographer :P