Photos badly positioned in Panoramio

[riri]

Hello Phil, hello to you all, bunch of Einsteins !

Is there an ExifTool book for stupid ?   

I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm lost : I mean * my English is not that good * I understand double zero on that matter you all seem to handle so easily * I live in an 4X4 expedition vehicle since 17 years (http://gallery.me.com/rdsck)  sooooooooo, very alone in the best locations of planet hearth
The problem : I  post some of my photos in Panoramio, (http://www.panoramio.com/user/823582) photos taken in the middle of nowhere. This helps people who like to travel 4X4, understand the difficulties they might  encounter.
just coming back from N-W Bolivia ( volcanoes region ). I noticed that when I upload some photos in Panoramio, they are wrongly positionned. A RAW photo taken in Bolivia, with my Nikon D2X + GPS, is shown in North Chile.
I went to the Panoramio forum, and the people told me kindly to download ExifTool. Then for the first time of my life, I opened a terminal on my MacBook Pro. After searching one day, the only thing I've got is a headache.

May I very kindly ask you what's to be done ?

I have RAW photos that I reduce in jpg with Lightroom. OK I have a file with jpg (with the "good" metadata ) What do I do ?

I tell you frankly, that I'm here to suck an info. When I have it I'll say thanks ( and good bye ) is that fair ?   

Thanks for your time and patience

Richard Desomme ( there is always a fresh beer for you in my Unimog, I'm in San Pedro Atacama for the moment )  ;-))
ps tomatoes can be sent to  rdsckriri@gmail.com

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Richard,

After reading your post I now know more about Unimogs and Bolivia, but still not much about the metadata you want to manipulate with ExifTool.

It sounds like you want to geotag some photos, but I don't know where you plan to get the GPS information from.  If you have another geotagged image from the same location, you can copy it from that image with a command like this:

exiftool -tagsfromfile SOURCE.jpg -gps:all DESTINATION.jpg

or you can manually write the GPS coordinates like this:

exiftool -gpslatitude=43.24524 -gpslongitude=75.34123 DST.jpg

Maybe we are lucky and one of these will help.  But if not, please explain what information you want to write and where it is coming from.

By the way, the above commands assume the images are in your home directory.  If they are anywhere else you will have to put the path name in front of the file name, like this for your Desktop for example: /Users/myname/Desktop/myimage.jpg.

- Phil

[riri]

Hello Phil,

Thanks for your patience ! . I'll start to explain again, in my best English :-)

History :
I have a Nikon D2X coupled with the Nikon GPS. I take photos in RAW. I  post some of these photos in Panoramio, for this, I reduce the photo from RAW to jpg with Lightroom.
Last year all my uploaded photos were well positioned in Panoramio. But last week I noticed that -for instance- a photo taken in Bolivia was positioned in Chile !
I went to the panoramio forum. And I kindly received some infos from Tomas, Draken and David:
http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31796
http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=364824#364824

Am I right ? :
I understood that if my jpg photos are "treated" by ExifTool, they will be postitioned in the right "place" in Panoramio. Tomas said that ExifTool will  "normalize" photo's exif into the form understandable for Panoramio.

My question :
to "normalise" a file of 40 jpg photos -taken in different locations-,  what do I have to type in Terminal of my MacBook Pro ?
I will transfer your answer to the Panoramio forum. I presume there are other people (like myself) who just doesnt understand what's going on with Panoramio, and like to solve that problem.

Thanks again for your patience. And congrats for your creativity and magic job. My respects to you and all the Einsteins who read and help you !

Richard

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for explaining.

After sifting through the Panoramio forum it seems that the XMP GPS information is causing the problem for Panoramio.  To remove this information, install the Mac version of ExifTool then type the following command in a Terminal window:

exiftool -xmp:geotag= -ext jpg DIR

where DIR is the name of the directory containing your JPG images.  On the Mac, "~" (tilde) is a short form for your home directory, so the command

exiftool -xmp:geotag= -ext jpg ~/Desktop

will fix all JPG images on your desktop, or

exiftool -xmp:geotag= -ext jpg ~/Pictures

will fix all JPG images in your Pictures folder.

After you run this command, you will find that exiftool saves the original images by adding "_original" to the file extension.  You should make sure the edited images are OK before you delete these backups, just in case the command didn't do exactly what you wanted.

- Phil

[riri]

THANKS PHIL !    problem solved  :-)))