how do I extract GPS coordinates from the EXIF metadata of a JPEG?

[nicholas....@tmr.qld.gov.au]

Hello Mappers,

I have just acquired a Lumix camera with a built in GPS.

How do I extract GPS coordinates from the EXIF metadata of a JPEG?

I would like to eventually have an automatic process for building a points dataset in mapinfo representing the locations of photos.

Kind Regards,

Nicholas Lawrence
Geographic Information Systems Coordinator | Geospatial Technologies
Engineering & Technology / Design, Environment & Stewardship Division | Department of Transport and Main Roads

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[Noli Sicad]

Hi Nicholas,

Visit this website:

http://www.drewnoakes.com/drewnoakes.com/code/exif/

And have a look at Languages other than Java, the python and C#, looks
interesting.

* Ferret Renaud has ported this library to C#
* exifdump.py for Python

Noli

On 1/19/11, nicholas....@tmr.qld.gov.au

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[Timothy Mashford]

Hi Nicholas,

 

I posted this tool + code a few months ago, when I also got a Lumix ZS7/TZ10. It extracts the GPS coordinates, and builds a point file with hotlinks to the original JPG images. It seems to work well so far!

 

Just download + unzip ExifTool from http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ and place it in the same folder as the MBX. You'll also have to rename the file from 'ExifTool(-k).exe' to 'ExifTool.exe' i.e. remove the (-k) from the filename.

Tim Mashford

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[911mapper]

Try
oPanda - www.opanda.com
irfanview - www.irfanview.com

basically it is a real pain in the back side of mule.
but these work well

-Trey Pattillo aka 911mapper

On Jan 18, 6:38 pm, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
> Hello Mappers,I have just acquired a Lumix camera with a built in GPS.How do I extract GPS coordinates from the EXIF metadata of a JPEG?I would like to eventually have an automatic process for building a points dataset in mapinfo representing the locations of photos.

>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Nicholas Lawrence
> Geographic Information Systems Coordinator| Geospatial Technologies

> Engineering & Technology / Design, Environment & StewardshipDivision | Department of Transport and Main RoadsFloor 6 | Spring Hill Office Complex | 477 Boundary Street | Spring Hill Qld 4000

[college.atlas]

Similar to Tim. I used EXIFUTILS and used the DOS batch functionality.

I'm working on a DLL at the moment so I don't have to rely on 3rd
party tools and can call the functions directly.

On Jan 19, 12:50 pm, 911mapper <mil...@wap3.com> wrote:
> Try
> oPanda -www.opanda.com
> irfanview -www.irfanview.com

>
> basically it is a real pain in the back side of mule.
> but these work well
>
> -Trey Pattillo aka 911mapper
>
> On Jan 18, 6:38 pm, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
>
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>
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> > Hello Mappers,I have just acquired a Lumix camera with a built in GPS.How do I extract GPS coordinates from the EXIF metadata of a JPEG?I would like to eventually have an automatic process for building a points dataset in mapinfo representing the locations of photos.
>
> > Kind Regards,
> > Nicholas Lawrence
> > Geographic Information Systems Coordinator| Geospatial Technologies
> > Engineering & Technology / Design, Environment & StewardshipDivision | Department of Transport and Main RoadsFloor 6 | Spring Hill Office Complex | 477 Boundary Street | Spring Hill Qld 4000
> > GPO Box 1412 | Brisbane Qld 4001
> > P:(07) 38342477 |F:(07) 38342998

> > E:nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au

[Cummings, Mike]

I think you can export with MS photo tools.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=184075d2-40b5-4172-88ae-878f81896d4d

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[nicholas....@tmr.qld.gov.au]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

At the moment I'm looking at a small bit of software called jhead.exe

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

which is a command line tool that interrogates a jpeg file and outputs a text file with the exif metadata.

But I'll look at your other suggestions as well.