Geotags are metadata information added to a file, in our case an image file. They usually take the form of GPS coordinates. Additionally, location names like city, state and country can be written to metadata.
By adding geotags to your photos, you basically “pin” them to the places they were taken. There are good reasons to consider geotagging your photos:
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Geotags create a permanent record of where a photo was taken. They allow photo cataloging tools like Apple Photos, Aperture, iPhoto, or Adobe Lightroom to organize photos by location.
Years from now, you may not remember when you took the photo you are looking for. But you will remember roughly where you took it.
Sometimes, you need to find a good picture of a specific spot. For example, you want to illustrate a blog post on the Golden Gate Bridge. Over the past years, you’ve visited the site several times and took a lot of different pictures. In this case, searching by date will prove arduous. Consulting a map with all your images represented by pins is a lot more efficient.
Geotags add to the “story” of a photo. A photo pinned to a map – at the exact spot where it was taken – has context. A series of tagged photos documents the path taken. There are several options to share your photos with their geoinformation. Google Photos and Flickr for example can show their location an map. With Google My Maps or Google Earth, you can display a series of photos pinned to their locations.
HoudahGeo is able to geotag your photos by matching photos to GPS track logs or by allowing you to pinpoint locations on a map. Moreover, you may also provide the longitude and latitude coordinates. Luxembourg - Houdah Software today is proud to announce HoudahGeo 6.0, a major upgrade to the photo geotagging tool for Mac. HoudahGeo tags photos with location coordinates, names, and related metadata. It's been 4 years since the release of HoudahGeo 5.0. We invested a significant part of that time into the file search tool HoudahSpot.
Photos taken with iPhone are geotagged in-camera. Photos taken with regular digital cameras – sometimes our best photos and most precious memories – lack geotags. This is where geotagging solutions like HoudahGeo step in.
Geotags can be added using different methods. The easiest way is to provide a track log from a GPS device. In HoudahGeo, geocoding is automatic when a track log is supplied. Alternatively, HoudahGeo lets you use reference photos taken with a smartphone or pick locations on the built-in map.
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To permanently attach the geotags to your photos, HoudahGeo writes future-proof EXIF and XMP tags to JPEG and RAW image files. Just like a GPS-enabled camera. HoudahGeo’s sharing options include creating Google Earth KML and KMZ files from GPS tracks and photos.
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- JPEG + RAW pairs: HoudahGeo treats JPEG + RAW pairs as a single photo
- Time zone for EXIF / XMP export: Specify how dates and times should appear in image metadata
- Media library import: HoudahGeo now imports much more location data from the recesses of media libraries
- Aperture migration: Write imported metadata to image files for future-proof storage and to prepare migration
- XMP sidecar writing: Use, ignore, create. Set separate strategies for handling sidecars to JPEG and RAW files
- Images needing export: Flags images where coordinates have changed or fail to match media library information
- “Automagic” camera clock setup: HoudahGeo can infer camera clock setup from a photo you place on a track log
- Enhanced “Places” feature: Configure individual places to apply only a subset of their properties to photos
- Lift & stamp metadata: Grab coordinates and metadata from one image. Apply to other images
- Support for weather data: Add weather information to your photos. HoudahGeo reads KESTREL weather log files
- Support for SCUBA dive logs: Add “depth below water” information to your photos. HoudahGeo reads UDDF log files
- Enhanced grid view: HoudahGeo can now show timestamps and coordinates along with image previews
- Easy import from Apple Photos: Grab and import the current selection from the Photos application
- Country codes: Add ISO country codes to photo metadata. HoudahGeo helps finding codes from country names
- Beautiful maps: Maps in HoudahGeo look better than ever, show more information, and are more interactive
- Much more: There are many more features and refinements that will make your geotagging workflow easier