Sunday, May 1, 2011

How I added GPS info to my pictures

No, my Canon t2i cannot record GPS coordinates, so I used my Droid phone with Google My Tracks to record our trail. After done, I could export the data from the program in KML or GPX file. For Adobe Lightroom there're two great plugins available:

1) GPS plugin at: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/gps This little plugin uses the exif date field of the pictures to match with the GPS coordinates and add GPS shadow information to the pictures. Unfortunately with normal export, this information is not attached to the created files, that's why you need another plugin:
2) http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/picasaweb This will export your geotagged images to Picasa, so you can have the map!

Now, there's a map with the pictures. For that you need a little trick: In Picasa klick on the 'View in Google Earth' link, that will give you a KMZ file. If you have a Google acccount, you have access to Google Sites, where in Manage Site you can add attachments to your webpages. Ergo free hosting for your KMZ file. If you type the URL to the KMZ file in Google Maps, you get the map with the pictures :) Tadam.

Neat trick!

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