Comments on: Copying geo data from one image to another.

By: Phil Harvey

Phil Harvey — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:59:07 +0000

This is along the lines of Jeffrey’s comment, but not quite to the point of copying everything. You could make use of the ExifTool groups to copy a number of tags at once. For instance, you could use “-GPS:all” instead of listing the EXIF GPS tags individually — it is a bit easier, and ensures that you get all the EXIF GPS tags.

By: bzimmer

bzimmer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:43:17 +0000

I think for the synthetic photos using explicit deletes make sense. I actually started looking at the GPS related fields because I had some photos from the Marmot Pass hike which didn’t fit the track log (I forgot to turn on the GPS) but were taken from the same spot as other photos for which I did have accurate data.

Do any of your plugins support copying metadata from a source to a destination image? The meta data wrangler appears to be a post-filtering plugin and the geo-encoding plugin doesn’t look like it supports it either. I downloaded the SDK today, perhaps I’ll give it a try.

By: Jeffrey Friedl

Jeffrey Friedl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:22:12 +0000

You might find it easier to omit the “-@ geotags” bit and just copy over all the data, then adding explicit deletes for the items you don’t want (such as, perhaps, exposure information).