A specific GUI for multiple GPS sources

[rt]

Hi! In my workflow, I typically have a folder with photos taken on a certain date. I need to geotag them (embed GPS coordinates in metadata), the coordinates themselves come from a GPX file or need to be entered manually -- typically it is a combination of both. I am currently doing this in command line with exiftool which works great however it is very tedious and time consuming to first separate the photos into groups that will be tagged with file1.gpx ... filen.gpx, [coords-1] ... [coords-m]. I do this by reviewing the photos by content, putting them into subfolders, and then running exiftool on a subfolder with a specific gpx or coordinates set.

Is there a GUI tool that would allow me to quickly see the list of photos in a folder (can be just file names, thumbnails beside them would be a plus of course), select them in groups and assign a coordinates source to each group?

This can be either a dedicated geotagging tool (in which case I would expect it could e.g. automatically preselect photos covered by the GPX I provide ) or something that would just allow me to run exiftool with easily modifiable params against each of the groups I select.

Basically, it is the operation of presenting a list of photos and allowing me to easily select groups of them and running an easily customised operation against them that I am looking for.

I'd love the backend to be based on exiftool, as this is the only one that I trust to modify my proprietary RAW photos.

I am hoping anyone who is using one of the available GUIs could point me in the right direction...

Thanks in advance!

[StarGeek]

If you're running windows, check out Geosetter.  It uses ExifTool on the backend and I've found it quite useful.

[Alan Clifford]

Nikon View NX 2 will let you geotag a set of photos with gps data.  You get a (google) map that you can click on to set the location.  The only raw it will do is Nikon but I use it if necessary for jpegs from my Fuji cameras.  It does have a facility to pick up locations from a tracking log but I have never used that as I do it another way with my gps logs.

Don't trust it with original files! I only modify copies.

[rt]

If you're running windows, check out Geosetter.  It uses ExifTool on the backend and I've found it quite useful.

Thanks, will check it out!

[rt]

Nikon View NX 2 will let you geotag a set of photos with gps data.  You get a (google) map that you can click on to set the location.  The only raw it will do is Nikon but I use it if necessary for jpegs from my Fuji cameras.

Thanks but this won't work for me -- I have at least Canon's CR2 at the moment, possibly more in the future.

Don't trust it with original files! I only modify copies.

I was extra careful about that and have long deliberated whether to modify the originals or not. I've chosen exiftool as the most reliable processor that won't modify or drop exif data it doesn't understand and will just add the GPS tags. I've extensively tested the CR2s geotagged with exiftool with various pieces of software that reads RAWs, focusing on Canon's own (DPP and ZoomBrowser) -- all looks fine, no side effects noted and the GPS coords are read correctly.

Then again, my workflow currently involves running bsdiff between the original "original" and the geotagged version -- the bspatch files are tiny and will allow me to return to the genuine photo if anything turns out to be wrong in the future. However, I am now considering dropping this practice as it is takes a very long time to finish (hours, for a folder). Will still need to think about it.

[rt]

Lastly, I forgot to mention: I've found a nice app called simply Geotag which does exactly what I need. The only shortcoming is that it doesn't let me predefine locations and quickly use them later.

I will check Geosetter recommended earlier, maybe it does that as well.

[StarGeek]

While I haven't used the feature, GeoSetter does seem to allow predefined locations, which it calls Favorites.