The rest of this article assumes that you have ExifTool installed and are familiar with Bash to some degree. 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.
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