Sunday, February 21, 2010

Geotagging tools

Like all things linux, it takes some searching and fiddling around. But there are amazing geotagging tools around. I use

  • gpsbabel to convert NMEA files to gpx (or any format apparantly)
  • exiftool -geotag=FILE pictures exiftool correlate time between the NMEA or gpx or whatever file and geotag the photos.
  • GPSDings is a java library that can create kmz files with pictures placed on the map. I'm currently trying to figure out how I used GPSDings googlemaps last time.
Some command lines

exiftool -geotag=/home/fraco/NMEA.log /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_1*

gpsbabel -i NMEA -o gpx,gpxver=1.1 /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_WandelingLaHulpeNMEA.log /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_WandelingLaHulpeNMEA.gpx


java -jar gpsdings.jar exifloc -g /boellieslug/fotos/20100*.gpx -z /boellieslug/fotos/20100212_LaHulpe.kmz -i 1024 800 -y /tmp /boellieslug/fotos/20100221*Hulpen*.jpg


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