Comments on: Geotagging Photos with Picasa and Google Earth

By: conrad@gmail.com

conrad@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:59:26 +0000

I use http://smartgpsworld.com/PhotoLocator/ to automatically geotag my photos. Safes the work of tagging every single one by hand, and works also if you have no gps, by using your cellphone coordinates.

By: Bar

Bar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:40:28 +0000

I’m not using locr …
I found this site http://www.trekinu.com much easy to share my album.
Trekinu site very neat and easy to use tools I like the idea and in 5 simple steps you have something to send to your friends or share in your site.
You can check this trek for example: http://www.trekinu.com/viewtrek.aspx?trkid=8h5b5glzsxa1h43

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:13:09 +0000

Nice review of the steps for geotagging. I prefer Flickr. You can read another comparison of the two here:
http://professionalsnapshots.com/blog/?p=46

Or, if you’re interested in trying to automatically geotag your photos (instead of tagging them through Picasa or Flickr), check out this:
http://professionalsnapshots.com/blog/?p=40

By: Shape

Shape — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:24:41 +0000

I use GPSed.com service for GPS tracking from my N95 and for photo geotagging. It is convenient to use one solution.
GPSed Photo Take’n'Pin is a simple and free Windows-based software that adds location coordinates (geotags) to your photos. Geotagged photos can be opened in one click in Google Earth on precise places they were taken at.
I recommend everyone to try it out: http://photo.gpsed.com

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:05:03 +0000

Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?

locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.

For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.

With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.

Use the "Show in Google Earth" button to view the photos in Google Earth.

Have a look at www.locr.com.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:03:48 +0000

Tried your procedure and it worked with no editing. I did the geotagging in Picasa and Google Earth. I then did the tools/export to Google Earth file. I ftp’ed the file to my server and put the link into Google Map. It worked. No editing or mods required. Cool.

http://www.bbbrown.com/images_general/Placemarks/Picasa Link.kmz

This is just a test image so the above URL will go stale pretty soon.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:25:03 +0000

Joey, glad to hear that the Maps & Picasa teams have worked out some of the kinks since last summer!

By: joey

joey — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:44:31 +0000

this website inspired me to try this for myself. i just today attempted getting geotagged picasa web photos into google maps, and it worked without having to do any editing to the doc.kml file. once i had the picasa-generated kmz file published to the web, google maps read it perfectly

By: Jeremiah Blatz

Jeremiah Blatz — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:38:44 +0000

Rumor has it that the next minor release of MacOS will support the little Sony thing, supposedly the newest MacBookPros already work with it. The supplied Windows software isn’t all that hot, anyway.

http://www.macgpscs1.com/
http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/

Of course, in order to achieve geotagging nirvana you still need some way to generate a proper KML file from an uploaded album. This part, of course, being frustratingly easy yet unavailable.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:38:09 +0000

Yeah, I really like the (lack of) interface on that thing–pity about the Windows-only software. It’d be nice if the same device could also act as a GPS mouse for bluetooth phones, too.