idea Display Geotagged Photos on Map in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Display Geotagged Photos on Map

DouglasCaldwell — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:26:48 GMT

This enhancement would display geotagged photos on a map. Currently, it is possible to add an image as a map symbol, but this must be done symbol by symbol. The proposed enhancement would provide a database-driven solution, where the images (or thumbnails) would be displayed on the map, similar to Fotomaps (shown below) or Panoramio.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

DerekGliddon — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:16:55 GMT

Some cameras (such as our Ricoh) record a compass bearing (in addition to Lat/Long) to show the direction the camera was pointing when the photo was taken. Ideally this would be included as an arrow alongwith the photo.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

ErinAtkinson — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:39:16 GMT

If the photos are stored as attachments in the gdb it would also be nice to "label" the point with the attachment thumbnail.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

ÖmerÜNSAL — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:08:34 GMT

Yes, This subject very important., It must directly make. Another solution, some long, Photos can opened by ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, then save as layer package and open in ArcMap.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

JenniferCrosby — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:33:33 GMT

Yes! I would very much like to have this enhancement. I have a map, that will be used only as a printed version, for which I need to do exactly this. For now, I guess I can just manually place 100+ images.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

BertrandMARTINEZ1 — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:05:17 GMT

Hello,

I'm completely agree with you all.
Since 2012, ArcPhoto is no longer disponible in ArcMAP.

However, ArcPhoto had very usefull tools that the new toolbox (Import geotagged photos) doesn't have. It's a pity!
That would be great that ESRI developpers integrate this:
1/ SHOW THE ARROW of direction of the photo (include in EXIF).
2/ CREATE thumbnails automatically that could cross from Dataview To LayoutView ( I can't imagine place manually hundreds of photos!!!!!!!!).

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

WillyLynch2 — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:14:23 GMT

ArcPhoto is still available from Esri-- it is in ArcGIS Online at:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=578d358a575e4a8ea067a180e00b1325

Tom Emge (Esri superstar) last updated this January 6, 2017. Now I am looking to have the same tools in ArcGIS Pro-- will consider posting another idea for that.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map - Status changed to: Implemented

KoryKramer — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:35:19 GMT

This is implemented in ArcGIS Pro 2.7 through the following workflow:

When you run the GeoTagged Photos to Points tool, add the photos as attachments.
Join the resulting attachment table to the point feature class.
Symbolize the points with a picture marker symbol and use attribute-driven symbology to point to the image data field in the joined table.

Also see 7:11 in the Ideas in ArcGIS Pro 2.7 video.

This is summarized in the what's new help as:

The image used in a picture marker symbol layer can now be variable, set by an attribute.

Re: Display Geotagged Photos on Map

AB_SRLA — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:27:23 GMT

@KoryKramer that's pretty cool. Here I was thinking it wasn't possible and it is.

Performance isn't great when panning, the images aren't converted to a thumbnail cache, so the load times are poor.

What about taking this symbology to a web map? A 'Map Tour' story map template wants to use pin symbols.