Creating a map image from a geotagged image?

July 23, 2009 10:12 AM

Is there a Windows or OS X utility that takes a geotagged JPEG image and generates an image of a map containing a pushpin or dot showing the location where the image was taken?

Also, it would be nice to control the size of the output image and the map scale.

I'm planning on taking a sequence of still images, geotagging them, stitching them together to create a movie (like this), but adding an overlay of a map image on the lower right corner showing the current location.

That's where this utility would come in - to generate the map overlay images.

posted by jaimev to computers & internet (6 comments total)

onAround's Immageo will do this.
posted by kenchie at 10:35 AM on July 23

To elaborate, it will let you export a folder of tagged images as a Google Earth .kmz file. This will then show all pics in the appropriate position in Google Earth. Are your pics being tagged in camera or are you using a GPS tracker?
posted by kenchie at 10:59 AM on July 23

kenchie - not quite what the end result I had in mind, but that's an interesting feature.

I'm using a GPS tracker to geotag my images.
posted by jaimev at 11:13 AM on July 23

You could upload them to PicasaWeb.google.com, and it will generate that map for you.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:23 AM on July 23

Prune could probably do this, and it's a cross-platform Java app. It will at least create a KMZ with image thumbnails.
posted by scruss at 2:08 PM on July 23

iPhoto 09 will do pushpins on a map. If you bring photos into iMovie, you can create a very cool Indiana Jones style travel map.
posted by nathan_teske at 7:44 PM on July 23