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 comments 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

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