![]() ![]() I advise you to make a backup copy of your files before executing it. You will only need to run this step once on your photos from the command line. In a previous post I described how to use exiftool for accessing Windows Photo Gallery. To make GeoSetter read any existing WPG Geotag – You will need to copy any saved “geotag” information from the IPTC Extension, to the equivalent IPTC Core fields using an exiftool command. Luckily, Geosetter is versatile enough to provide a means for a workaround. ![]() The IPTC Photo Metadata User Guide, explains the reasoning of creating the IPTC Extension fields. This is not just an issue with Geosetter, other photo management tools, like XnView MP, still primarily use the IPTC Core “legacy” Location fields, instead of the newer IPTC Extension Location fields. However, as good as the Geosetter is, there is a slight catch – Geosetter by default does not read nor write to the newer 2008 IPTC Extension format which Windows Photo Gallery writes to. GeoSetter’s Edit Data dialog allows users to edit EXIF GPS as well as IPTC Location fields. GeoSetter also allows one to edit the latitude and longitude info, which I was unable to do so in WPG. I exclusively have been using GeoSetter for some time, which unlike WPG it will always save the information back to the photo file. Geosetter uses a service from, in a similar fashion which WPG did, to aid in finding location info as well it allows users to edit them manually. Hence, exiftool, Lightroom or other photo management applications will only be able to show you geotag information if it was written within the file.Īs a workaround, I rely on a freeware application called GeoSetter (which internally uses exiftool). Given that Microsoft decided to discontinue WPG last year, the service which determines the geotags is no longer working, so holdout users may find these fields empty or have trouble adding new geotags. These fields are detailed in the 2008 IPTC Extension Spec, further discussion on how this information is handled by certain applications can be found on the Metadata Working Group Spec. ![]() You will note multiple fields which may seem to contain redundant information, but the ones WPG would write to are just four which start with “Location Created”. Here is an example of the metadata from one of my photos. When edited, the information is saved back to the file to the IPTC Extension “Location Created” fields. Windows Photo Gallery “Geotag” rename dialog box. WPG uses the “IPTC Extension- Location Created” fields to store the “Geotags” info within the photo. However, here it is where it gets a bit tricky- There are multiple Location, City, State/Province, Country fields among the different metadata standards (IPTC and within XMP). If you, the user, edit a Geotag in WPG manually, it will be saved back to the file and that information becomes the “geotag”. It will not however, write the “Geotag” information back to the file, unless they are edited manually by the user.ģ. If a photo has GPS Latitude and Longitude, but no City, State/Province, or Country information in the fields described in (1), then WPG would consult a Microsoft web service to determine the “Geotag” based on latitude and longitude, this process is called reverse geocoding. It would display the IPTC Extension fields as the first choice (if available) and the IPTC Core “legacy” fields (if available) as the second option.Ģ. If a photo already contains Location, City, State/Province and Country fields filled in, WPG would use the information it has to display as the Geotag. Here is the general logic behind Windows Photo Gallery’s Geotags (in order):ġ. The fields which Windows Photo Gallery uses for geotags are: IPTC Core and Extension Location Fields (Location, City, State/Providence, Country) and EXIF GPS Latitude, GPS Longitude. Placing the mouse over the geotag would reveal all the geotag information. A photo taken at the Seattle Central Library shown in Windows Photo Gallery. ![]() Think of it as paper forms with fields (such as date, time, caption, locations) to fill in, which are added to a photo. There are multiple ways (formats) of writing this information known as EXIF, IPTC, XMP. The best analogy for understanding what metadata is by imagining a printed picture with written information written on the back. So I am writing this post to provide a way to access and maintain the geo location information in your photos.įirst, a quick explainer on how geotags are saved in image files and used to work in Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) – As you may know, photo files such as JPG can store additional information called metadata. Windows Photo Gallery “Geotags” was a nice feature for adding location information to photos. It is no longer supported and has caused some angst among some users. ![]()
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