Geotagging Photos on Ubuntu

September 12, 2007 3:46 PM

How do I geotag photos on Ubuntu Linux?

Windows users can use Picasa + GoogleEarth, but this doesn't seem to be an option on Linux (the apps work, but there is no menu option for it). Is there a geotagging app that will attach Lat/Long to EXIF data in linux? I have many gigs of photos, so I want to do this locally, not upload all my photos to a web site. Suggestions?

posted by blue_beetle to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Some or one of these, with a little scripting glue?

$ apt-cache search jpeg |grep -i exif |visual-grep
exiv2 - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool
gpscorrelate - correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields
gpscorrelate-gui - correlates digital photos with GPS data filling EXIF fields
jhead - manipulate the non-image part of Exif compliant JPEG files
posted by cmiller at 4:40 PM on September 12, 2007

Best answer: I'm running Picasa 2.7 on Ubuntu linux with no problem and the geotagging is working perfectly for me. This is the windows version of Picasa that runs with wine. I think I had to uninstall the "linux" version of Picasa (also a windows app running with wine) to get it to work. There are people who have posted about this in the picasa for linux google group.

Luck!
posted by achmorrison at 7:05 PM on September 13, 2007