![]() For Picasa Web Albums users, select a gallery, select an Album and find the "RSS" link.Be sure you have relevant location sharing options turned on. You'll need to copy this URL and use it later in ArcGIS Explorer. GPSPhotoLinker adds GPS position and location data to your photos.Open ArcGIS Explorer and press "Add Content".Note that you must have created an "Album Map" in order for the RSS feed to contain geographic data. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit are linked and saved to your photos.Ĭhange Server Type to "GeoRSS" and paste your geoFeed or RSS URL from Flickr or Picasa Web Albums. ![]() GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state and country into the metadata. ![]() If you receive an error, the first and most likely problem is that all proper location sharing options in Flickr or Picasa Web Albums are not enabled.Adding geographic information to an item is known as geotagging. You can repeat the above process until you've added all the geotagged photos you want. Change your base maps and add more geo data to make it yours. Lastly, if you want to share your ArcGIS Explorer file, save your work as an. Non-GPS-enabled cameras are starting to feel broken.The accounts are free and take only a second to set up. While I'm keen to buy a new camera myself, I'm now thinking I should wait until the ones I want have GPS built in. She soon stopped using it.Įventually she upgraded her old camera and, after much reading of reviews, bought one of the few smallish cameras with built-in GPS, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V: She used it recently and it Just Worked - she uploaded photos to Flickr and, with no manual intervention, they were all positioned on the map. She found it a pain to set up on a Mac and never had much success getting useful data to match up with photos. After much frustration she tried one of the GPS trackers - the film-canister size ones - mentioned by others. My wife does a lot of travelling to out-of-the-way parts of the world that have poor coverage on online maps (particularly those on Flickr), which makes positioning photos tricky. Obviously, it's far from an ideal solution. I currently rely on taking a photo with my iPhone at the same time and using that photo's data to position my "real" camera's photo on Flickr (or, very recently, in Lightroom 4). My wife and I have tried a few solutions. However, the benefit is that you most likely carry your phone with you all the time, and subsequently the best geotagger will be the one you have with you. In the woods, especially under dense canopy, it can take a frustratingly long time to get an accurate position. Again, the major limitation here is the accuracy of the iPhone 4s GPS. There are a bevy of geotagging apps specifically for the iPhone and Android like GeoTag Photos ( ) which in particular has received significant praise but I have yet to try out because I find the iPhone camera to do a perfectly acceptable job. The kludge solution that I have been using recently when mushroom foraging is to take a geotagged photo with my gps-enabled iPhone 4, and use that as a time-dated reference for any subsequent photos I take in the area (it also means that next year I know where to forage). It looks like there are cheaper (and well reviewed) third party solutions that use the same physical hardware connection (Promote Systems GPS) but I haven't heard much about them. In terms of physical GPS units, if you shoot with a prosumer Nikon dSLR (d200/d300/d700/d90/d7000/d5000/d5100) you're in luck as they make the GP1 which mates natively and plops the data directly into the Exif (which is by far the most painless method, and well worth the added expense in terms of reducing man hours and processing alone). ![]() I know Aperture also deals with GPS data natively, but I don't have as much experience with it. 4) which has a map module built in which is more robust than any other I've seen (it also makes it easy to amend geotagging data if you know cross streets/addresses). Most recently with Lightroom's newest update (v. This has all since been rendered antique and newer software has since gotten a lot better. The benefit of using a higher end GPS is the accuracy of the data, which I know is a problem with some of the cheaper, lighter weight units like the one you mentioned. I used GPS Babel ( ) to convert all the tracks to a useable format, and then used an older piece of freeware called GPS Photo Linker ( ) that I believe was developed at Oregon State. My original solution was to use my Garmin 60 CSx and manually transfer the files and waypoints, which as you pointed out is a pain in the butt. It's been fun to watch geotagging photos gain in popularity over the past few years. ![]()
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