2008-08-05

Geotag your photos easily from the shell

http://namakajiri.net/code/geotag-exif

This is a simple wrapper over exiftool (debian/ubuntu: in package libimage-exiftool-perl) to make it easy to set EXIF geographic information (GPS tags). It is able to understand the decimal format for latitude/longitude that you can get from google maps, wikimapia etc.

With exiftool:

  exiftool \
      -GPSLatitudeRef=South \
      -GPSLatitude=23.88 \
      -GPSLongitudeRef=West \
      -GPSLongitude=49.81 \
      pic.jpeg

With geotag-exif:

  geotag-exif pic.jpeg -23.88 -49.81

It won’t touch your EXIF tags other than the GPS tags and the FileLastModified timestamp.

— leoboiko, 18:42:17