


What they are, why it makes sense to only use those tools, and how to install them on a recent Mac is described in article Why I Geotag My Photos. It’s just a bit more cumbersome.Īll you really need for the job is Bash and ExifTool. The good news is that it’s fairly easy to geotag a pile of photos without a GPS Track at hand. So, how to make sure those great photos are properly geotagged? All You Really Need is Bash… and ExifTool Because I forgot to bring my GPS Tracker, the photos predate the purchase of the GPS tracker, or any other excuse I could come up with. But the location information only in my head (and rapidly fading). Most of the time, I rely on my GPS tracker to provide me with a GPS track and then let Bash and ExifTool do all the heavy lifting as described in Why I Geotag My Photos.īut once in a while, I am faced with a problem I thought to belong to the dark ages. When All You Have is a Distant MemoryĮver since I discovered geotagging, I’ve never gone back - I make sure to geotag all my photos! This way, the information of where I took each photo is contained inside the photo itself. A pile of great photos at hand? But the locations only in your head? Here’s how to geotag those photos using Bash and ExifTool.
