Geotagging images with Picasa 2.5 and GE

[Wilma_Sweden]

2.5 instructions

Open Picasa 2.5 Beta and select the album you wish to geotag.



Step # 2

Select Tools|Geotag|Geotag with Google Earth



Step # 3

Select the location and hit the Geotag Button. Repeat for each image. Then Select Done



The result is in the placemark above.




All Images Courtesy Wikipedia .

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[Valery35]

Great!
I like to Picasa services.

All large collections best stored by Http....
We can see this not only in GE. Now master include this pictures into KMZ.

If we can select: store pictures into KMZ or simple share this then it is best.

While i use flickr and make links by editor.

[noso]

In the process you have described, the taging of the images are done in the Picasa data base. The images do not contain the taging, and if you will end an image, rename, or save somwere else, it will lose its tag.

If you save the images ( or save as.. ) the tag will be embeded in the EXIF section of a JPG image. and it will go with the image whatever you will do with it.

I hope that Picasa would add not onlt the lat/ Long they embed now, but also the viewing engle, so the placemark would be more informative.

[GandalfTheGrey]

I checked this link and it goes to Picasa 2.2 only. It does not have geotag capabilities.

[PenguinOpus]

Try this:

http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasaweb-setup-beta.exe

[Forkboy2]

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In the process you have described, the taging of the images are done in the Picasa data base. The images do not contain the taging, and if you will end an image, rename, or save somwere else, it will lose its tag.

If you save the images ( or save as.. ) the tag will be embeded in the EXIF section of a JPG image. and it will go with the image whatever you will do with it.

I hope that Picasa would add not onlt the lat/ Long they embed now, but also the viewing engle, so the placemark would be more informative.

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Are you sure about that? I used the process described above and then uploaded a bunch of the images to Flickr, which was able to pick up the lat/lon data and display on the Yahoo Map that Flickr now provides.

I think being able to easily tag images with Picasa/Google Earth and then uploading them to Flickr is a very cool development.

The Google Earth interface to view the images could use some work. For example, it creates a new folder in GE for each new import instead of putting them all under a common folder. There is no way to go from one image to the next in the pop up baloon when you have a bunch at the same location, the icon doesn't scale so when you zoom out they all overlap, etc.

Matt

[Forkboy2]

Has anyone else been experimenting with Picasa beta and Google Earth?? I can't figure out how the lat/lon data is stored in the image. It must be stored somewhere because when you take the image and upload it to Flickr, Flickr is able to read the geocoding information. But, when I use ACDSEE to view the EXIF data, the Lat/Lon fields are blank.

Anyone know what's going on? Before I go through all the trouble of geocoding my pictures I want to know that the geocoding can be read in the future by other programs.

Matt

[Forkboy2]

Nevermind, figured it out. Looks like Picasa definately does write to the GPS Lat/Lon fields of the EXIF data. I think I just needed to do a refresh to get them to show up since they are there now.

Matt

[Valery35]

While i see best solution http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/06/digital_camera.html
for geophotos.
Photos can have direction, cones, heigth ...
Very interests. Thanks, Wilma! Great discussion.

[Forkboy2]

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Until you start looking into how much the GPS enabled cameras cost Hopefully in a few years they will get cheaper. I'm thinking in 10 years our cameras will take the picture, use facial recognition to automatically tag the photo with thes names of the peple in the photo and then hunt for a wi-fi connection to automatically transfer them to your flickr account.

The Google Earth/Picasa option is actually pretty quick for geotagging. I finally figured out how to use ACDSEE to tag the keywords into the IPTC fields. Last night I was able to tag about 700 photos with geo-info and keywords in a couple hours.

Now only 3 or 4 thousand left to go

Matt

[Forkboy2]

A bit of a warning to anyone trying this. I went to open Google Earth this morning and it hung up. It looks like the problem was because I had too many images imported from Picasa into Google Earth (about 700). I ended up having to manually delete a bunch of the imported Picasa photos out of the myplaces.kml before I could get GE to work again. I think a better method would be to move the Picasa photos out of the myplaces.kml and into a network link and add Regions.

Matt

[Valery35]

Yes. For users not need include images to kml. Need links only.
And best see this with "superoverlay" LOD tags.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/542547
In this example i include raster to kmz. This not need for Picasa, Flickr, Imagehack etc.

Oops. I not see your post before http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/560751
Very good! This tags can include to masters.


Need additional near this to master by queries: Center (now maked) Radius, Min zoom, max zoom ... Store only duplicates of images local in kml it is not best solution.

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<Region>
<LatLonAltBox>
<north>60.0520181272527</north>
<south>59.2887765230505</south>
<east>55.0977189469305</east>
<west>53.8967949259901</west>
<minAltitude>0</minAltitude>
<maxAltitude>0</maxAltitude>
</LatLonAltBox>
<Lod>
<minLodPixels>128</minLodPixels>
<maxLodPixels>-1</maxLodPixels>
<minFadeExtent>128</minFadeExtent>
<maxFadeExtent>128</maxFadeExtent>
</Lod>
</Region>

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[noso]

One way of having albums of photos connected to GE is by saving each album (a folder in GE) as a separate .KMZ file, but not under "My Places".
under "My Places" you can hold "Pointers" to these KMZ files, i.e when you select the "Pointer" the album will be loaded.

That way you can have as many photos as you like, without the need to preload them every time GE is starting.

[JMiddleton]

Excuse me if i've come in at the wrong place or the wrong time only this is my first try at this. my question is having muddled through the process of geo tagging with piccasa and getting the tag mark left showing on the picture in overview i didn't name my photo's how i would best like them to be. how can i change the name now that they are on google earth showing as small pictures.
J Middleton

[Forkboy2]

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Excuse me if i've come in at the wrong place or the wrong time only this is my first try at this. my question is having muddled through the process of geo tagging with piccasa and getting the tag mark left showing on the picture in overview i didn't name my photo's how i would best like them to be. how can i change the name now that they are on google earth showing as small pictures.
J Middleton

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I think you can just delete them all from Google Earth and then rename them, then drag them back over into Google Earth. Changing the name shouldn't affect the geotag.

But try this on one picture before you do all of them just in case I'm wrong.