Software for geotagging photos using Google Maps
Asked 10/19/2016
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I want to geotag photos by choosing a location directly on Google Maps rather than using OpenStreetMap or Bing Maps. I don’t use Lightroom. Are there any apps or workflows that support this on Windows, macOS, or Linux?
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The maps module in Darktable can use Google Maps, OSM, and several other sources. It is free and open source and runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Photos can be geotagged by dragging and dropping.
Since Darktable is a non-destructive editor, photos must be exported to have the additional information encoded. With JPEG images, it might make sense to consider a workflow that minimizes quality potential issues caused by multiple compression cycles.
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Yes. A few options mentioned are:
- Darktable: free, open source, and available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its map module can use Google Maps as well as other map sources, and you can geotag images by drag-and-drop. Since Darktable is non-destructive, you may need to export files for the GPS metadata to be written into the output.
- ACDSee and Photo Mechanic: both were noted as supporting image placement/geotagging with Google Maps.
- Manual workflow with Google Maps + ExifTool: click a location in Google Maps, copy the latitude/longitude from the URL, then write GPS tags with ExifTool. If you have Google Location History, you can also export KML from Google Timeline/Takeout and geotag photos automatically with ExifTool based on capture time.
One caveat: changes to Google Maps API pricing made native Google Maps support less common in geotagging software, so availability may vary by version.
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