How to add GPS tags to your photos using ExifTool

Morgan_Hardwood · December 19, 2018, 8:38am

Find the spot on the map and get the coordinates.
The first number is the latitude which specifies the north-south position.
The second number is the longitude which specifies the east-west position.
- http://maps.google.com/
  Click the spot and you will find the latitude and longitude in the URL as well as in a popup notification dialog:
  
  https://www.google.com/maps/@28.3052659,-16.840323,359m/data=!3m1!1e3
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/
  Double-click the spot - the map will center on that area, and then you have the right coordinates in the URL:
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/28.30539/-16.83983
Tag your photo:
You need to set the following tags:
- GPSLatitudeRef to N if north/positive, or S if south/negative.
- GPSLatitude
- GPSLongitudeRef to W if west/negative, or E if east/positive.
- GPSLongitude
```
exiftool -overwrite_original -GPSLatitudeRef=N -GPSLatitude=28.30539 -GPSLongitudeRef=W -GPSLongitude=-16.83983 photo.jpg
```

Tobias · December 19, 2018, 11:14am

Or use the map module in darktable:
https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/map_chapter.html

Peter · September 1, 2019, 12:51pm

I am trying to add GPS tags from a gpx file.
I am using Ubuntu. This works:
exiftool -geotag "/media/macgyver/4GB/krypterat/decrypt/*.gpx" /media/macgyver/4GB/krypterat/decrypt

This doesn’t work:
exiftool -geotag "*.gpx" dir

This does work:
exiftool -geotag "*.gpx" /media/macgyver/4GB/krypterat/decrypt

How come I can’t use dir to simplify things?

Peter · September 1, 2019, 1:25pm

Seems the easiest thing is to use exiftool -geotag "*.gpx" *CR2
Problem solved.

Jossie · September 1, 2019, 5:02pm

Why not use geosetter? It uses EXIFtool internally but makes life easier.

Hermann-Josef

heckflosse · September 1, 2019, 5:35pm

Isn’t that windows only?

paperdigits · September 1, 2019, 5:44pm

Yes, it is Windows only.

Peter · September 1, 2019, 7:47pm

Didn’t know about it. I normally use darktable when adding GPS tags, but I wanted to add the tags into the raw files instead of just the XMP files if I ever would need to change software.
Seems also like the raw files from 1Ds, TIF files, don’t have a GPS tag to change at all.

paperdigits · September 1, 2019, 9:03pm

Note that darktable stores the XMP data for geolocation in a standard XMP tag, so other applications that understand XMP should be able to read it

Andrius · September 2, 2019, 2:11pm

I use digikam for that. It has built-in map and ability to copy and paste coordinates.
I also use Reverse Geocodding there which will convert GPS coordinates into location names and add them as tags