GeoTagging Photos on a Mac
Nobody needs me to monitor news about geotagging, but I have to mention that it’s finally gotten very easy to tag photos with spatial attributes on a Mac. Like it should be. Ogle Earth reports that iPhotoToGoogleEarth’s Craig Stanton has recently and quickly taken advantage of AppleScript support in Google Earth. The result is a small .app called Geotagger that takes a dragged image and ascribes coordinates to its exif fields based on where your also-running Google Earth is centered. Very easy, and a great, great way to tag photos (if you don’t already have a GPS track available to sync to).
And it works, too. Below this is a screencap of four shows’ worth of album art from Tom Waits’ tour through the midwest/east. It proves Geotagger works, yes, but it also reinforces my disappointment at not being able to attend any of these shows (I was busy starting a new job, see, and traveling across the country). I’m almost the centroid of the polygon these four corners would create.
October 1st, 2006 at 8:20 am
Hi there,
I’m listening to suggestions so if you think there is a feature it needs then let me know.
Thanks for the positive review
~Craig
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:46 am
Craig, you’re most certainly welcome. It’s real swell, and goes no small distance toward getting good, usable geo* tools on the Mac. Where they should be. Good work, and thanks.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I’ve used Geotagger with mixed results. I’ve been dragging groups of photos at a time to be geotagged. Sometimes when i I then upload them to Flickr they are not recognized as being geotagged as Flickr lists the data as: Latitude: 43° 39′ 827785216″ Longitude: 79° 21′ 1692073984″, instead of: Latitude: N 43° 39′ 52.845″ Longitude: W 79° 22′ 26.926″. It seems to be hit and miss. Sometimes it gets the right info, and sometimes it doesn’t. Just curious if others have seen this.
December 28th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
I haven’t experienced this, no, but I don’t often use Flickr. I don’t suppose the coordinates are still right outside of Flickr. That is, can you verify them in some other environment to make sure it’s Geotagger and not Flickr?