Re: [OM] GPS wrist watches for tracking photo locations

[Jim Couch]

No need for LR at Bill! I use a free program called Picmeta Photo 
Tracker Select a directory of photos and a gpx file and it tags all the 
photos based on matching time stamps.
https://www.picmeta.com/products/picmeta-phototracker.htm

Jim


On 12/29/2017 10:25 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Aw crap, I must use LR?
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> From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 4:23:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] GPS wrist watches for tracking photo locations
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> On 12/29/2017 12:50 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> > I've thought of this process for some time, but I always get up against one 
> > thing. For me, having lat-lon numbers for me is no better than nothing. How do 
> > you decode this into a location like Bezerkly, Chicago, etc. using only basic 
> > arithmetic and first two weeks of Jr. High algebra?
> Unless it's some sort of Zen or ascetic exercise, you don't.
>
> If your camera/phone/tablet doesn't auto tag, you use one of many apps that use 
> time matching to insert the location
> information into the images by matching the time taken with trackpoints.
>
> Then it all depends on how you look at or display your images. In LR, select 
> the image, select Metadata in the right
> info panel. to the left of the title "Metadata", is a drop down menu. Select 
> "Location" to get a display of, for an
> image I was just looking at:
>
> Sublocation: Brooklyn
> City: New York
> State/Province: New York
> Country: United States
> ISO Country: US
>
> Also, in LR, select image(s) and click on "Map", upper right, to get a map with 
> the image location(s) shown. Hover
> cursor over a flag to see thumbnail(s).
>
> In FastStone, press 'i', to get the EXIF details panel and click on the Google 
> Maps or Earth icons at the bottom.
>
> If you show photos in Google Photos, click on the "i" icon to see place name 
> and map, as with this critter.
> <https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMYjr0sL1Gw5fD7MSlXJ8vCHC-asvw1t1i3aj6EhucXtCtq7yE-_TZJLeML_bzjRw/photo/AF1QipNfU8V0huiHAaII07tuSQ7S-b6WUUOgV8m94hKa?key=REpuLU1nTzRCTl8xTXdwV0JVRENILUJXQ19URVhB>
> Many of the other photo display gallery sites will also "do the math" and 
> display place name and/or map. I just don't
> remember which do what.
>
> I modified the Singapore Gallery to add a "Map" button that opens the location 
> in Google Maps.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2016/Assabet%20River%20NWR&image=_A007286oof50.jpg>
>
> No Math Moose
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