{"id":1358,"date":"2023-08-23T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2023-08-23T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:15:44","slug":"add-geolocation-data-to-photos-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/add-geolocation-data-to-photos-the-easy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Geolocation data to photos the easy way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A long time ago I wrote a blog post<\/a> about how to add location data to photos using a tool called GPSLogger to record your location, as well as GeoSetter<\/a> to take that data and apply it to photos. It’s been a long time since that blog post, and I was looking to do the same thing recently. A couple of phones later I no longer had GPSLogger (and forgot to check my blog to remember what I used to use), but since I was using Google Fit to track my location, I figured it would be easy to use that data to do the same thing. And it was! Continue reading to see how…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first thing I had to do was to get the location data from Google. There is no direct way to export a workout from Google Fit, so that wouldn’t work. However, Google makes it easy to get your data using Google Takeout<\/a>. Simply select fit and the data you want to get : you’ll want the “Activities” at least since that’s where the location data is located. Submit the request and a short time later you’ll be able to download the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After unzipping and finding the Activities folder, you can go to the activity you recorded, such as a hike, and find the right TCX file. I had a problem using the TCX file format with GeoSetter, but I found a way around that: I converted the TCX files to GPX using the handy converter at GPS Visualizer<\/a>. It can even merge multiple TCX files into one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I had converted the file, I used GeoSetter to sync the data by clicking on “Edit”, then “Synchronize with GPS Data Files…” after selecting the appropriate photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once the proper data is applied to your photos, just save and you are done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One final note: in order to get support for CR3 files I had to download the beta of GeoSetter here: https:\/\/geosetter.de\/geosetter_beta.exe<\/a>. It’s beta but I’ve had no problems with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you can track your photo walks with Google Fit AND make it easy to add location data at the same time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn how to use location data from Google Fit and GeoSetter to easily add location data to photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t