Can I use geotagged Android photos to add location data to DSLR photos taken at the same time?

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I returned from a trip with many DSLR photos and some Android phone photos. I didn’t record a GPX tracklog, but most of the phone images already contain GPS coordinates in their EXIF data.

Is there a way to use those geotagged phone photos to add location information to DSLR photos taken around the same time? Alternatively, can I generate a GPX tracklog from the geotagged Android photos and use that for matching in Lightroom or other software?

user7718 · Accepted Answer

It seems that there is no way to create a tracklog from within Lightroom. I just did a Google search on that and looked in Lightroom 4 for options.

You can create a tracklog from your geotagged pictures using exiftools.

Save the following print configuration to a file named gpx.fmt in your working directory.

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# File:         gpx.fmt
#
# Description:  Example ExifTool print format file for generating GPX track log
#
# Usage:        exiftool -p gpx.fmt FILE [...] > out.gpx
#
# Requires:     ExifTool version 10.49 or later
#
# Revisions:    2010/02/05 - P. Harvey created
#               2018/01/03 - PH Added IF to be sure position exists
#               2018/01/06 - PH Use DateFmt function instead of -d option
#
# Notes:     1) Input files must contain GPSLatitude and GPSLongitude.
#            2) Add the -ee option to extract the full track from video files.
#            3) The -fileOrder option may be used to control the order of the
#               generated track points when processing multiple files.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#[HEAD]
#[HEAD]
#[HEAD]
#[HEAD]1
#[HEAD]
#[IF]  $gpslatitude $gpslongitude
#[BODY]
#[BODY]  $gpsaltitude#
#[BODY]  ${gpsdatetime#;DateFmt("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")}
#[BODY]
#[TAIL]
#[TAIL]
#[TAIL]

Run the following command. It will read all the geo information out of the exif data from the android pictures and create a XML document formatted in the GPX way.

exiftool -fileOrder gpsdatetime -p gpx.fmt -ext jpg . > out.gpx

Can I use geotagged Android photos to add location data to DSLR photos taken at the same time?

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