Vlad

Wikipedia:

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media…

Let’s see how this works for pictures. There are several reasons for doing that:

• You want to remember where was it that  you took some great picture.
• Or, you want to brag about it and show your friends the places you’ve visited.

I won’t question your reasons; if you’ve read so far, I assume you’re really interested in how to do it. It’s quite easy: buy yourself a camera with integrated GPS. A phone (or an iPhone). It will automatically add geotags to your photos’ EXIF information.

Or, if you already have a camera (or phone) and a GPS receiver, why not use the data recorded by the GPS and cross-reference it with your photos’ date and time. You only need to:

• download and install Copiks PhotoMapper (it’s free and it works on Windows)
• export the track data from your GPS receiver
• (optional) convert it to .gpx format
• start PhotoMapper
• import GPS data
• import photos and select those you want to geotag
• (optional) adjust time difference between your camera and GPS receiver data
• tag the pictures
• manually adjust further information
• save tags
• publish your photo (most photo hosting sites automatically place the picture on a map based on geotags)

One more tip: If you’re using Flickr, make sure you’ve enabled automatic import of GPS location data from EXIF data: http://flickr.com/account/geo/exif/

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