Generating place name from long and lat question

[BrooksR]

Can Exiftool read long and lat Exif data and come up with a place name like 'Mount Maunganui' or 'Viaduct Harbour Marina'?  (www.iMazing.com does it somehow)  Thank you.  Brooks  (P.S. I know Exiftool can do country, state, city but am looking for something more specific)

[Phil Harvey]

As shipped, ExifTool has the ability to give you the nearest city with a population of 2000 or greater, but it may be customized to include any place names in the geonames.org database.

See the Geolocation page for more details.

- Phil

[BrooksR]

Thank you for the information, Phil.  I read the Geolocation page.  A lot of information there!  Can you give an example of how I would customize to return a place name within a city, like a museum?  - Brooks (I'm 71 and was writing FORTRAN when I was 17, but what you've done here with ExifTool is amazing.  And you've done it in a way that others have built from it.  Quite an accomplishment!)

[StarGeek]

You might first look at the alternate database file, which is larger and covers cities down to 500 population.

For further customization, create a text file called .ExifTool_config in the same directory as exiftool. Copy/paste the code listed under Customization into the file and save it.

You can then add you're own places using the format listed there.

[Phil Harvey]

User-defined locations as StarGeek mentioned are possible, but only feasible for a small number of locations.

The larger picture would require some work to understand what geonames offers, then construct a custom database containing your desired feature codes using the build_geolocation script mentioned in the Alternate databases section of the Geolocation page

- Phil