Geotagging

Now I’ve finally got this GPS data sorted and in the absense of being able to think of anything at all sensible to do with 13,000 pictures I thought I’d try this Geotagging malarkey. I just found this, and it actualy works! Don’t be scared by the command line interface and the thousands of options, all you need to do is:

1. Get your GPS track into GPX format (other formats are supported)
2. Copy your GPX file to the folder containing your images to be tagged
3. Download and open this zip file
4. Save the single file in this zip file to your Windows directory
5. Rename this file to exiftool.exe (instead of exiftool(-k).exe)
6. Open a Command Prompt and change to the directory containing your images to be tagged
7. type “exiftool -geotag nameofgpxfile.gpx FolderContainingImages” eg. exiftool -geotag trip.gpx c:\Images\

exiftool creates duplicate files so you end up with the original file and the file with the newly added geotags just in case anything goes astray!