How to synchronize the Camera with UTC

One of the big issues with geotagging is, that the camera needs to be synchronized with UTC such that geoencoding works precise. Today I found a way to do precisely enough. I tried it with my 20d and my 5d: Weiter…

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A Big Step for Geotagging on Mac

This weekend saw a big step for geotagging on Mac – I might say for geotagging at all – GPSPhotolinker 2.0 Beta.

Even if I am somewhat enthusiastic on myTracks, GPSPhotolinker is still very good and it will get much better in Version 2.0. Both tools are really great but they narrow the issue from different ends. I really would like to see the combination of both:

  • GPSPhotolinker has its focus on photos. It provides different methods determining the GPS coordinates which shall be attached to the photos.
  • myTracks has its focus on Trackmanagement including editing trackpoints. Photos are bound to trackpoints. It does not know about photos without trackpoint. Even if non tagged photos are loaded, they are attached to a trackpoint of a new track.

GPSPhotolinker 2.0 Beta 5 is very stable and also pretty fast, in particular when dealing with RAW images. I wonder how Jeff achieved this. Besides Geotagging, GPSPhotolinker evolves to a good meta data editor as well. It implements the recommendations specified by http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org.

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Generating KMZ-File

I promised to finetune my Lightroom export setting and publish it here. Not that I am really satisfied with it, but as Tim asked for it, I publish the current status.

You need to install Lightroom Transporter.

Here is the Lightroom export preset (use context menu „save target to …“):
kml-export.lrtemplate

Note that this preset also moves camera settings as well as „IPTC Title“ and „IPTC Image Description“ to the KML-File.

I have to perform the following steps to create a kmz file:

  1. Select the geocoded photos in Lightrom
  2. Make sure that „IPTC Title“ and „IPTC Image Description“ are filled properly
  3. Export the photos using the preset above, you get a KML file named „summary.kml“
  4. Create a kml-file from the relevant tracks. I manage my tracks in MyTracks which provides an kml export feature.
  5. Open both kml-files in googleMaps, move the track to the temporary location with the photos
  6. Export the temporary location to a KMZ-File.

Known issues:

  • One has to click twice to an image to show the image in googleMaps properly. I gues this comes from the fact that I increased the size of theimages
  • I would love get rid of the manual steps

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Edit GPX files

I found a new tool to fix my GPX tracks. Have a look on http://sourceforge.net/projects/mytracks. It also supports combining Photos with GPS data. But I do not trust it. But for removing errornous trackpoints, it is pretty good.

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Meine Tools für Geotagging

Nun will ich doch mal zusammenstellen, wie das Geotaggen bei mir funktioniert … Weiter…

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