Hallo,
I have LOTS of images in diverse subdirectories.
Is there a way to use
exiftool -r -if "$gpsdatetime" -ee3 -progress -p b:\GPXDATA\gpx.fmt . > b:\GPXDATA\out1.gpx
first (i.e. w/o "-fileOrder $gpsdatetime") so that exiftool does not need to sorting first,
and afterwards sort the file separately, possibly by exporting to some format readable by EXCEL, sorting there, and then re-export to a GPX-file?
Thanks in advance
W
Exiftool can't re-combine GPX files, so you would have to look elsewhere for a program to do that.
Are you creating a geotrack from individual images or from videos? If from a bunch of images, I'd say your stuck with using -FileOrder option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#fileOrder-NUM---TAG). It might be hard to create a CSV out of a lot of images as -csv option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#csv-CSVFILE) needs to buffer all the data, which can lead to memory problems. See the last paragraph in that link.
If you're extracting tracks from videos, then you can add the -w (-TextOut) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#w-EXT-or-FMT--textOut) to create a separate track for each video. With the -geotag option, you can specify multiple tracks, including by using a wildcard. Put them all in the same directory and call it like this
-geotag /path/to/*.gpx