How (not) to Geo-Tag Your Images
Posted December 31st, 2008 in [hide]Click and drag the map for a location
I’ve been convinced of the value of geo-tagging my images for a long time now, as you can see from my fondness for maps. Over the holidays I picked up a GPS unit, in part to help with this in the future, but sadly most cameras - including my 5D - won’t talk to GPS hardware.
The map above gives the latitude and longitude for any point on the globe; every click shows the location in the center of the map. It works, but, as Google would say, it’s not a very ’scalable’ solution. I’m working on a software approach, to match up time stamps in the photos against time stamps in the GPX files with some fuzzy matching. Clearly, though, it won’t work for older shots that still warm the heart, and the interactive map is still useful for that.
