Saturday, April 28, 2007

Photo Exif Geotagger



I'm sorry it's been so long since the last update. Hope not all my readers have left me. It has been very busy lately because I've been working hard to finally finish the Photo Geotaggers software I've been working on for some time. At the same time I've also been working on then new PixFiler version 5.1 which also is beginning to become stable.

The Photo Geotagger, named PixGPS, has now been released as a beta (test version) and you can download a trial copy. What you need to use this is a GPS Receiver with tracking capabilities and a digital camera that stores EXIF (most do). The PixGPS software will compare the timestamps in the GPS track log with the timestamp in EXIF in your photo and calculate the exact latitude and longitude for the photo. This information will be stored as GPS-EXIF according to the EXIF standard. PixGPS Geotagger can also exsport the positions as CSV or KML files. This allows you to view the locations on your photos in other software, for example Google Earth.

I've been using the software myself for for some weeks now while testing it and I find it useful. I especially think it's nice to be able to view the locations for each photo in Google Earth. I think a lot of software will offer support for GPS data embedded in the EXIF meta data in the future so it will be more and more useful to have the GPS information there.