Geotagging

What is geotagging?

Geotagging is a term used for attaching a geographic location, usually latitude and longitude, to a digital image. This allows images to be mapped to the location where they were taken. I've been geotagging all of my digital images for over a year now. It's fun and can be very useful to know exactly where images were taken. You can also view the images in different applications like Google Earth.

There are many, many different ways to accomplish geotagging. Here's a sample of my geotagging workflow...

1. Turn on my Garmin eTrex Vista Csx and sync the built-in clock of my Canon 30D digital SLR to match the exact same time displayed on the GPS.
   
2. Clip the GPS (leaving it on for the duration of the shoot) to my backpack and hit the road or trail. Turn the GPS off when done shooting.
   
3. After returning home, download images from camera to computer.
4. Convert images from raw format to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter.
5. Start the RoboGeo software program (there are many similar programs now available - some free), load images, connect GPS to computer via USB, match images with lat/long using GPS tracklog, then write geo-info to each digital image EXIF data, and save. Exit RoboGeo (a project file can be saved if desired). The images are now geo-tagged!
   
6. Import geotagged images into Adobe Lightroom for processing.
   

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Welcome to my blog! So what's gonna happen here??

I'll post info on what's new in my photography world and other items of interest.

And, periodically, I plan to select an image from my galleries and delve into some of the details that went into making the photo - technique, composition, location, timing, etc. It will be good exercise for my brain and hopefully others will find it interesting...

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