Software for reverse geocoding photo GPS data into addresses
Asked 3/4/2012
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I'm geotagging photos from GPX tracks by syncing camera time and writing GPS coordinates into the images. I used Microsoft Pro Photo Tools to convert the EXIF latitude/longitude into human-readable location text, but that feature no longer works for me.
Is there software that can batch reverse-geocode photo GPS coordinates into addresses and write the result back into the images' metadata?
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Jeffrey Friedl's Geooencoding plugin for Adobe Lightroom can do this. It achieves it by querying Google Maps.
There is a also a public beta test for Lightroom 4 (the full release of Lightroom 4 will presumably happen later this year), and it has some more abilities in the mapping area. I don't know how much it overlaps with Jeffrey's plugin. But it doesn't matter really, since Jeffrey's plugin is donationware anyway - you pay as much as you like for it.
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Yes. Community members suggested a few options:
- Jeffrey Friedl’s Geoencoding plugin for Adobe Lightroom: this can reverse-geocode coordinates by querying online map services and is designed to work with Lightroom metadata workflows.
- GeoSetter (Windows): recommended as a Windows-based geotagging tool with a strong feature set and user-friendly interface.
- PicGPS.com: a web-based option mentioned for extracting street addresses from geotagged photos.
In general, what you want is called reverse geocoding: converting GPS coordinates stored in EXIF into place names or addresses, then saving those fields back into metadata. Whether full street addresses are available depends on the map service the software uses and the precision of the GPS data.
If you want bulk processing with metadata editing, desktop tools like Lightroom with a geocoding plugin or GeoSetter are the most directly relevant suggestions from the answers.
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