Comments on: Have You Ever Geotagged an Image? [POLL]

By: Vincent Tassy

Vincent Tassy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:53:54 +0000

I geotag most of my travel pictures.
I use a Tripmate 850 datalogger and embed the GPS info into the EXIFs back at home.
I always keep my camera time set to GMT time so I don’t have to worry about changing Time Zones while traveling ….

Also, While traveling, I generally photograph my GPS receiver so that in that particular picture I see the GPS time and can correct the time of the images in batch (because the camera clock tends to drift …

By: Andy Entrekin

Andy Entrekin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:54:09 +0000

I just recently started using Microsoft’s free Pro Photo Tools to geotag some of my images.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:00:32 +0000

I bougth the interface cable for my Garmin to Nikon camera some years ago but more recently bought a Di-GPS unit which does the job much more easily… less cables.. a short cable connects to the 10 pin socket and the unit either attaches to the camera strap or slides into the flash mount.

By: Freef

Freef — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:35:02 +0000

The only time I would consider geotagging is if I found a specific view or item I wanted to note for my personal information. However, I have a good memory, and usually dont need to bring my GPS, and if I’m in the woods in the hills, I dont get good satalite signal anyway.

By: Ed Starr

Ed Starr — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:32:46 +0000

Hi Darren,
Here’s proof newbies read your stuff.
Question – What is geotagging?
Sounds like the use of a geopositioner of some sort to locate the exact position of where a shot was taken.
But what is it really?
Best,
Ed
P.S. If it is a positioning idea, why in heaven’s name would anyone ever need it except in emergency rescue, research and similar work?

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:27:44 +0000

I took a ton of shots on a trip to Tetons/Yellowstone. When I got back I realized I had no idea which waterfall was which, etc. I decided to geotag next trip, so I bought a Garmin 60CSx that I could use for hiking as well as geotagging. 2 cables and 2 map packages later it was ready to go. Next trip (Yosemite) I knew where I was all of the time, and all of the pictures were repeatable. I could look at a shot on my MacBook in the evening and go back to reshoot it in the morning if I thought I could improve it. I uploaded some to Flickr, but that pretty much seems to be a waste of time except for the convenience of having landmarks. The whole deal cost me over $700, but at least I have a GPS that I use a lot of time, even walking around the city, and it’s a great safety device (along with a backup compass and map) for going out in the wilderness.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:19:56 +0000

I use a very useful program, Panorado Flyer. You can search for the location on Google Earth, drag it to the center of the map window, then you right-click on a JPEG image within the Windows Explorer to bring up the context menu, then select “Panorado Flyer”, and then a submenu command “Get location from Google Earth”. Very easy to do.
http://www.panorado.com/en/index.php

By: Grant H

Grant H — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:12:37 +0000

I carry a Garmin GPS with me whenever I’m in the bush taking photographs. When I get home I use gpicsync to automatically update all the images with position data. Gpicsync will also create a nice Google Earth file that shows your GPS track and places clickable image thumbnails and the location that each image was shot at.

Gpicsync
http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

GPSBabel
http://www.gpsbabel.org/

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:34:14 +0000

One of the answers doesn’t make sense. If the question is Have you ever… How can the answer be no I have never but I used to?

I think it would be easier to change the question to do you geotag your images?

By: Gregory

Gregory — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:59:36 +0000

While I have a D200 that natively supports a GPS, I find I’d rather toss my Garmin Colorado in my backpack and use Robogeo to merge the location information into the EXIF later. The GPS solution for the D200 tends to have too many cables and doing something like using the hotshoe to mount my GPS means I won’t be using my hotshoe for flashes or commander units.

Lightroom has excellent support for geotagged images as well.