Portrait photos - display correct orientation?

[DotHelm]

I'm using a Garmin GPSmap 62sc for geotagged photos of trail resources, in particular sign posts so vertical/portrait orientation makes the most sense. They display ok in the GPS, and the Orientation flag in the EXIF fields appears to be set properly.

I've used RoboGeo to generate a .kmz file with the photos (partly because I did this before I had this gps, but with this I'm not writing anything to EXIF fields) and I've also added a couple photos directly to ArcGIS Explorer, but they all end up with landscape orientation  -with posts laying on their sides.

While I could take the pics in landscape mode then crop, the direction of the photo is incorrect. (Antenna pointing to left generates a pic that shows correctly in ArcGIS Explorer, but has incorrect Direction for photo. Antenna pointing up has correct Direction, but picture is horizontal.)

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

[EdanCain]

Dot,
thanks for the post. There is nothing that you are doing wrong, the code simply isn't reading the orientation of the image from the exif data. I hadn't thought to check the orientation within the exif when writing the code.

I hope to get time to work on a fix for this and have it in for our next release.

Kind regards,
Edan

[DotHelm]

Thanks, Edan. That will simplify things for one of our users - and me - who would like to just add individual photos occasionally.

In the meantime, I discovered an option in RoboGeo which flips the images appropriately. So my .kmz files come out with the photos correctly oriented. That has over 230 photos spread in 5 files.

Dot