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Geotagging photos on the mac

Thu, 2007-07-12 13:52 — chris

With a couple of bits of free software you can simply geotag (add longitude/latitude to a photos EXIF data) your pictures. These can then be shown on flickr's map, google maps etc.

GPSBabel and GPSBabel+

A really handy command line utility and graphic GUI for translating GPS formats. It can grab from file or from various devices and can convert between many different formats.

GPSPhotoLinker

A really nice utility that can take a GPS XML (gpx) track and a set of photos. It can then tag the photos based on the track.

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Fri, 2008-03-07 08:46 — chris

gpsbabel syntax

I keep forgetting this so:

Grab tracks to gpx

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F outfile.gpx

-t
tracks
-w
waypoints
-r
routes
-i
input format - garmin to grab from device
-f
input file - usb: finds garmin device on usb
-o
output format - I use often gpx for storage or kml for google earth
-F
output file

Conversion much the same - just replace the input format and file.