Fire Medic57 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Hello all, First post here. I do a fair amount of motorcycle touring and general travel photography and have been uploading pictures to Panoramio. I would like to be able to GEO tag the images. Is this something that any of you do on a regular basis? I know of one camera that is GPS enabled, the Nikon P6000. Are there any others? Also, have any of you used any of the GEO tagging devices like these: http://tiny.cc/wWlyN Thanks in advance, Steve Quote Link to comment
Fire Medic57 Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 Well... I just figured out that my 3G iPhone is Geo-Tagging all of the photos I have taken with it. I am sure that location services must be turned on for this to work. Quote Link to comment
Bob Morphew Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I use GPicSync - a free download from Google - to geocode my motorcycling pics and then display them on Picasa, also a free Google application. Bob Quote Link to comment
+scubahhh Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Topo7 has it built in, but I guess that won't help you if you don't have the good sense to use a Delorme GPSr! Quote Link to comment
NordicMan Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Hello all, First post here. I do a fair amount of motorcycle touring and general travel photography and have been uploading pictures to Panoramio. I would like to be able to GEO tag the images. Is this something that any of you do on a regular basis? I know of one camera that is GPS enabled, the Nikon P6000. Are there any others? Also, have any of you used any of the GEO tagging devices like these: http://tiny.cc/wWlyN Thanks in advance, Steve My girlfriend has a Nikon D90, for it there is an external accessory that will Geotag photos. I think a similar external device is available for most Nikon and Canon DSLR's Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 The garmin Oregon series will soon (reportedly) have a camera built into the unit. Quote Link to comment
+Redwoods Mtn Biker Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Here's a Nikon GP-1 review. If you have a GPS, you can use any of a number of utilities to geotag photos. Basically, they compare the timestamps on the GPS to those on the images. Quote Link to comment
NordicMan Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 As a poor-man's option, right after taking a nice nature photo I will snap a picture of my GPSrs display lol easy to match up later when post processing the pictures Quote Link to comment
-Oz- Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 I use GPicSync - a free download from Google - to geocode my motorcycling pics and then display them on Picasa, also a free Google application. Bob i also use that; works great. I even wrote; a tutorial: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-...-with-gpicsync/ Quote Link to comment
Barnie's Band of Gold Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Many camera phones have the ability to geotag photos. I have to be careful I'm not using one on a puzzle or multi cache and inadvertently give away the location(s) in the exif file. The Nokia N95 is great for tracking hikes/fishing trips etc. Use Sportstracker and the geotag function to link track logs and photos plus share on-line. Quote Link to comment
Orion84 Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I use the free GeoSetter software to combine the tracks from my Garmin Vista HCx and the pictures from my Nikon D40. Works like a charm Quote Link to comment
+iamasmith Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 And BaseCamp lets you Geotag photos from a track that has timing that you can correlate to to your photo timing (you can adjust the offset). But you will need a Garmin unit and a topo product to be able to use it. Quote Link to comment
Fire Medic57 Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 I forgot to mention that I am running a MacBook. I just found out the iPhoto 09 has support for geotagging. Quote Link to comment
+user13371 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 (edited) iPhoto 09 has support for geotagging.Also, the Preview application in Mac OS X has had geotagging support for quite while. Take any image that's already geotagged (e.g., anything you snapped with your iPhone) and view it in Preview. Pull down the Tools menu and select Inspector. The middle "Info" tab shows the geotag info for the photo and has a "Locate" button that will open the location in Google Maps. Edited April 5, 2009 by lee_rimar Quote Link to comment
+TeamAldridge Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Fire Medic, I think I can help you out with this. Actually the way I found out about GeoCaching was because I was looking into Geotagging and kept running into the term Geocache. On a mac there's a free program GPSPhotoLinker that will take your recorded track from your GPS and will automatically place the tags on the photo based on the time stamp. I hope this isn't confusing, but basically you record your track on your GPS, and export it to a GPX file. From there you pull the GPX file and your pictures into the program and it will place the coordinates based on time stamps. You just need to make sure the time is accurately set on your camera. I hope this helps, it is a really easy to use program. Quote Link to comment
britops Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Fire Medic, I think I can help you out with this. Actually the way I found out about GeoCaching was because I was looking into Geotagging and kept running into the term Geocache. On a mac there's a free program GPSPhotoLinker that will take your recorded track from your GPS and will automatically place the tags on the photo based on the time stamp. I hope this isn't confusing, but basically you record your track on your GPS, and export it to a GPX file. From there you pull the GPX file and your pictures into the program and it will place the coordinates based on time stamps. You just need to make sure the time is accurately set on your camera. I hope this helps, it is a really easy to use program. Thanks, GPSPhotoLinker is just what I needed. Quote Link to comment
Fire Medic57 Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Fire Medic, I think I can help you out with this. Actually the way I found out about GeoCaching was because I was looking into Geotagging and kept running into the term Geocache. On a mac there's a free program GPSPhotoLinker that will take your recorded track from your GPS and will automatically place the tags on the photo based on the time stamp. I hope this isn't confusing, but basically you record your track on your GPS, and export it to a GPX file. From there you pull the GPX file and your pictures into the program and it will place the coordinates based on time stamps. You just need to make sure the time is accurately set on your camera. I hope this helps, it is a really easy to use program. Thanks, GPSPhotoLinker is just what I needed. This sounds good! Quote Link to comment
+Jeep4two Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Fire Medic, I think I can help you out with this. Actually the way I found out about GeoCaching was because I was looking into Geotagging and kept running into the term Geocache. On a mac there's a free program GPSPhotoLinker that will take your recorded track from your GPS and will automatically place the tags on the photo based on the time stamp. I hope this isn't confusing, but basically you record your track on your GPS, and export it to a GPX file. From there you pull the GPX file and your pictures into the program and it will place the coordinates based on time stamps. You just need to make sure the time is accurately set on your camera. I hope this helps, it is a really easy to use program. Thanks, GPSPhotoLinker is just what I needed. This sounds good! Seems to be a lot of faith being placed in the camera's ability to have an accurate clock. I guess if you sync your clock at the beginning of your shoot day you should be reasonably close. . . I'll have to give this a shot - using different software since I'm a PC... Quote Link to comment
Orion84 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 You can also take a picture of your GPS clock during the trip. In that way you can calculate the offset (timestamp in picture metadata vs. gps clock in the picture) and often the geotagging software enables you to take this offset into account. This is especially useful if you have a camera of which you can only set the hours and minutes, not the seconds. And after all, gps and camera do not need to be synced to the second, of course. Usually you will be standing at the same spot for quite a while to take a picture. Quote Link to comment
Fire Medic57 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 I also found this, http://www.jobo.com/web/photoGPS.447.0.html Quote Link to comment
+TeamAldridge Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I also found this, http://www.jobo.com/web/photoGPS.447.0.html The problem I found with that is that it's pretty expensive for what it is. It costs around $175 (I'm sure there's a better deal around). Its use is limited to sitting on top of your camera, occupying your flash socket, and on that note, you NEED a flash socket. What if you don't feel like lugging around your DSLR and just want to take your point and shoot along? Quote Link to comment
britops Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Fire Medic, I think I can help you out with this. Actually the way I found out about GeoCaching was because I was looking into Geotagging and kept running into the term Geocache. On a mac there's a free program GPSPhotoLinker that will take your recorded track from your GPS and will automatically place the tags on the photo based on the time stamp. I hope this isn't confusing, but basically you record your track on your GPS, and export it to a GPX file. From there you pull the GPX file and your pictures into the program and it will place the coordinates based on time stamps. You just need to make sure the time is accurately set on your camera. I hope this helps, it is a really easy to use program. Thanks, GPSPhotoLinker is just what I needed. Tested it with my Oregon & Canon ixus and it worked as advertised. Quote Link to comment
+iamasmith Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 (edited) Tested it with my Oregon & Canon ixus and it worked as advertised. I have an ixus 750 (won't change soon because I have a Dive Housing for it too) and an Oregon.. does that bit of software allow you to Geotag photos that already made it into iPhoto '09? I found with Basecamp you had to copy them out (from the original locations to avoid iPhoto re-orientating the portrait shots and screwing the file time), delete them and put them back to get places to recognise the co-ordinates. Edited April 21, 2009 by iamasmith Quote Link to comment
+TeamAldridge Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Tested it with my Oregon & Canon ixus and it worked as advertised. I have an ixus 750 (won't change soon because I have a Dive Housing for it too) and an Oregon.. does that bit of software allow you to Geotag photos that already made it into iPhoto '09? I found with Basecamp you had to copy them out (from the original locations to avoid iPhoto re-orientating the portrait shots and screwing the file time), delete them and put them back to get places to recognise the co-ordinates. I'm not entirely sure, but it's a free program, so there's nothing to lose by trying. Quote Link to comment
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