I'm trying to help a guy with photos from his Nikon Coolpix P6000 that are supposedly geotagged. I told him at first I'd just run them through the GeotaggedPhotosToPoints tool in Arc Desktop 10.2, but each time I try this I can only get the very unhelpful Error 999999 and "Failed to execute"
I set up the tool to take all the files from his directory and put the output FC into a new 10.2 file geodatabase.
Examining the directory I was given, each phot has a jpg, a aux.xml file that seems to contain just some metadata parameters, and an .ovr that seems to be a pyramid file. I don't see where the coordinates are stored. I wonder if he hasn't set up his camera correctly to geotag his photos, or is this format not recognized by Arc Desktop.
Update: Nikon has a photo viewing utility ViewNX2 that shows the coordinates and a map with photo locations for almost all these photos. I just don't see where these coordinates are stored, and apparently, neither does GeotaggedPhotosToPoints.
Update 2: The Coolpix P6000 pdf manual says files are "DCF, Exif2.2, and DPOF compliant" (p.211) EXIF is supposed to be the format The ArcMap tool is looking for.