Issue while geotagging my photos

[rhino]

Hi all!

I'm trying to geotag my photos through command line exiftool, and i'm facing an unexpected behaviour.

I have some Lisbon photos without gps coordinates and I wanna set them properly so I'm using:

exiftool.exe -n "-gpslatitude=38.7436882" "-gpslongitude=-9.1952232" "PATH_TO_MY_PHOTO"

It seems everything is OK, because exiftool tell me

1 image file updated

But when I check that the coordinates were setted properly, I find that the negative sign doesn't exist:

exiftool.exe -n -gpslatitude -gpslongitude "PATH_TO_MY_PHOTO"
GPS Latitude : 38.7436882
GPS Longitude : 9.1952232

I've tried to escape the minus sign, and I've tried to set the longitude with:

-gpslongitude-=gpslongitude

Any of them worked fine

I have read the exiftool documentation and also the FAQ section but i couldn't find what i'm doing wrong.

Could anyone help me identifying what is my mistake?

Thank you in advance.

BR,

Rhino.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Rhino,

You need to also write the reference directions for EXIF GPS tags.  See FAQ 14 for details.

- Phil

[rhino]

Hi Phil!

Thanks a lot. It works fine!

Rhino.

[Milo]

I'm having trouble geotagging photos.  I have already used EXIFtool to set the time of each photo to the GPS time from a csv file.  exiftool -csv+='csvfile.csv' *.tiff

Now I'm trying to geotag each photo with unique location data for a large sea-floor mosaicking project.  I had luck with geotagging one image
exiftool -GPSLongitudeRef=W -GPSLongitude=88.0163671 -GPSLatitudeRef=N -GPSLatitude=29.1710418 sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff

I have tried every iteration of KML, CSV, and GPX file I can produce with no luck.  Here is my latest KML file that I converted online somewhere and then edited to match the desired format. 

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<Placemark>
<name>sentry.20140429.001644015121.11.acun.tiff</name>
<TimeStamp><when>2014-04-29T00:16:44.015-4:00</when></TimeStamp>
<Point><coordinates>-88.0163671,29.1710418</coordinates></Point>
</Placemark>


I attempt to geotag the KML file with this command line
exiftool -geotag 231Sentry.kml *tiff
I'm in directory the has all the images and the KML file, and it errors out with Warning: No writable tags set from sentry.20140429.001633998951.10.acun.tiff for each image.

Thank you for your response.

[Phil Harvey]

What is the output this command?:

exiftool -geotag 231Sentry.kml -v2 sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff

My guess is that this is troubleshooting problem 2.

- Phil

[Milo]

Argument "-Geotime<DateTimeOriginal" is assumed
Loaded 8395 points from GPS track log file '231Sentry.kml'
  GPS track start: 2014:04:29 04:16:23 UTC
  GPS track end:   2014:04:29 14:59:59 UTC
Writing File:Geotag
======== sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff
Setting new values from sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff
Warning: No writable tags set from sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff
Nothing changed in sentry.20140429.001623959568.9.acun.tiff
    0 image files updated
    1 image files unchanged


This is interesting as it appears that the kml files is read and all points are found, the date and time is being read.  I added the time zone info to match the output of exiftool -s image after changing all dates from the csv.  Would it better to remove the timezone information and have it assume local?

[Phil Harvey]

It is troubleshooting problem number 2 as I guessed.  Try following those instructions.

- Phil

[Milo]

Interesting!

Thank you, I had tried that awhile ago, before I had a properly formatted KML.  It appears to be running through the ~8400 images now and re-writing them to the directory.  Is there a way to just append the geotagging?  This is already a working dataset with no need to preserve the originals. 

Now on to the larger task!
Thank you Phil!
Milo

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Milo,

Great.

Add the -overwrite_original option if you don't want to preserve the originals.

- Phil