topic Re: Add Geographic Coordinates to Image's EXIF Metadata in Geodatabase Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856296#M5500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Make sure to check out <A href="https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html">https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html</A>, the author has created lots of options for dealing with this issue.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:29:50 GMT JoshuaBixby 2019-10-06T20:29:50Z Add Geographic Coordinates to Image's EXIF Metadata https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856293#M5497 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm about to embark on an 18 day raft trip on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. (Can you say bucket list?)&nbsp; My phone is a battery hog and even if it weren't I'm not sure a solid view of the GPS satelites will be available from the bottom of the canyon.&nbsp; Consequently, I'll be using two point and shoot digital cameras to capture my adventures.</P><P></P><P>I've been searching the web for some sort of EXIF editior with which to add Geographic Coordinates to my images.&nbsp; It's sort of a mixed bag.&nbsp; I downloaded one to my android tablet, only to find that in order to geotag an image, one navigates on a google map to the 'location' and with a finger press (or mouse click) you choose that location.&nbsp; Pretty clunky at best.&nbsp; <A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.esri.com/message/833169-re-changing-coordinates-of-geottaged-photos?commentID=833169#comment-833169">This recent geonet post provides a python solution</A>.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone know of a way to actually open the image metadata and enter the Lat Long pair needed for a geotag?</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:32:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856293#M5497 JoeBorgione 2019-10-06T14:32:12Z Re: Add Geographic Coordinates to Image's EXIF Metadata https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856294#M5498 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I you already have the coordinates in a separate list and want to embed them in the image metadata, then I suggest <A class="link-titled" href="https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool" title="https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool">GitHub - exiftool/exiftool: ExifTool meta information reader/writer</A> .&nbsp; If you need to actually georeference the photos first, then there are likely better tools available.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Oct 2019 16:16:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856294#M5498 JoshuaBixby 2019-10-06T16:16:01Z Re: Add Geographic Coordinates to Image's EXIF Metadata https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856295#M5499 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I've actually considered&nbsp; creating a file of xy coordinates to reference against. I don't need absolute precision; close enough is good enough.&nbsp; I found a feature layer on AGOL of river miles which may work as a source.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:44:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856295#M5499 JoeBorgione 2019-10-06T17:44:40Z Re: Add Geographic Coordinates to Image's EXIF Metadata https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856296#M5500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Make sure to check out <A href="https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html">https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/geotag.html</A>, the author has created lots of options for dealing with this issue.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:29:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geodatabase-questions/add-geographic-coordinates-to-image-s-exif/m-p/856296#M5500 JoshuaBixby 2019-10-06T20:29:50Z