ExifTool Forum

[Originally posted by bogdan on 2008-11-20 17:30:35-08]

Hi,

I have XMP file, containing:
I can copy GPSLatitude from Src.XMP to Dst.JPG, for example:
-but when doing this, only Exif:GPSLatitude is copied from XMP. How do I copy "N" (in this case) into Exif:GPSLatitudeRef tag?

Just a though in this regard: if at all, then usually all GPS tags are needed to be copied. In such case, it would be great having something similar to "AllDates"... something like:


Thanks for answering.

Bogdan

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-11-20 19:23:29-08]

Hi Bogdan,

You need to also copy the GPSLatitudeRef, ie)


Doing this will copy the Composite:GPSLatitudeRef to EXIF:GPSLatitudeRef, which
is what you want.

The tag shortcuts wouldn't work for this purpose unfortunately.  In this
case, a .args file and the -@ option is the way to go, as is
done when translating IPTC to XMP.

- Phil

[Originally posted by bogdan on 2008-11-20 19:51:24-08]

Thank you very much -exactly what I needed :-)

Bogdan

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-11-21 02:05:48-08]

I just realized that you can do what you
want with just one argument:
"-all>gps:all".  I think this should copy
all xmp gps to the exif gps.  - Phil

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-11-21 17:09:04-08]

I had forgotten many of the details of these conversions since
I looked into them years ago.  (Perhaps I should document some
of this.)  But I forgot about the XMP:GPSDateTime difference,
so the Date/Time stamps must be handled specially.

# translate from XMP to EXIF GPS

exiftool "-gps:all<all" "-gpsdatestamp<gpsdatetime" "-gpstimestamp<gpsdatetime" ...

Note that exiftool will be smart and copy the date part of GPSDateTime
to GPSDateStamp, and the time part to GPSTimeStamp (a bit of magic here).

# or you could specify the "all" tags more explicitly to reduce the
work that exiftool must to to check all tag names:

exiftool "-gps:all<xmp-exif:all" "-gps:all<composite:all"
"-gpsdatestamp<gpsdatetime" "-gpstimestamp<gpsdatetime" ...

# or to copy from EXIF GPS to XMP:

exiftool "-xmp:all<gps:all" "-xmp:gpslatitude<gpslatitude"
"-xmp:gpslongitude<gpslongitude" "-gpsdatetime" ...

Here, the GPSLatitude, GPSLongitude and GPSDateTime must
be copied separately since these tags are different format in the XMP
but are provided as Composite tags for this specific purpose.

- Phil

[Originally posted by bogdan on 2008-11-21 18:51:27-08]

Thank you. This very usefull to know when dealing with GPS data -and my "examples" file is growing and growing :-)

Greetings,

Bogdan