osde8info / geotagger

📸 🗺 Geotag your photos from GPS-less cameras with your phone's location history data

GeoTagger

Geotag your photos from GPS-less cameras with your phone's location history data.

Is it for me?

• Do you take photos with a camera without a GPS tracking feature?
• Do you have a mobile with a GPS tracking app (ie wigle)
• Do you want to have your photos geotagged?

…if your answer is 3x yes, then this tool is for you.

How does it work?

• You already walk around with your location-aware phone and Moves records your location.
• You snap photos with your GPS-less camera.
• GeoTagger uses the creation timestamps from photos to find your location at the time of taking by matching times in your GPX file.
• GeoTagger is able to retrospectively add GEO tags to even old photos as long as you have a GPX file for that period.

How is it implemented?

When you ask GeoTagger to tag your photos, this process takes places:

1. Unique creation dates are extracted from the photo files. 3. Create a GPX file from you GPS tracking app 4. exiftool -geotag is used behind to scene to apply that location

log to your photos.

Status

Beta quality.

Installation

1. Install exiftool, for example, with: $ brew install exiftool
2. Install geotagger from PyPi with: $ pip install geotagger

Usage

See $ geotagger --help and $ geotagger sub-command --help.

Moves authentication

1. Create a new app under your Moves account: https://dev.moves-app.com/apps/new
2. Specify http://127.0.0.1:7777/redirect as Redirect URI.
3. Create ~/.geotagger.json with credentials for your app: {"MOVES_ID": "<CLIENT_ID>", "MOVES_SECRET": "<CLIENT_SECRET>"}
4. Run geotagger auth and follow the instruction to authenticate the app.

Geotagging

Geotag all images in a folder:

$ geotagger tag ./photos

You can also just generate a GPX log for the dates without applying it:

$ geotagger gpx ./photos > log.gpx

The tag sub-command also optionally accepts a path to a GPX log file:

$ geotagger tag ./photos log.gpx

TODO

• Improve UX: simplify installation and setup
• Make the external metadata updates play well with photos already imported to Lightroom
• Add Geosync support http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html#geosync
• Consider Electron-based GUI app
• Consider additional GPS log sources than Moves

Changelog

0.0.3 (2017-09-09)

• Fixed missing configuration: MOVES__ID #1

2024.10.10

• Remove MOVEs

Contact

Jakub Roztocil

• https://github.com/jakubroztocil
• https://twitter.com/jakubroztocil
• https://roztocil.co

Clive Darra

• https://github.com/osde8info

Contribute

• https://github.com/jakubroztocil/geotagger

Licence

MIT. See LICENCE.