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GeoTagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, QR Codes or RSS feeds

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How QGIS knows my photos were taken in the Southern Hemisphere

I have photos with EXIF data Long: 149.xxx, Lat: 35.xxx. I'm in Australia, so this latitude should actually be negative: -35.xxx. However, when I import these photos into QGIS using the "import ...
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QField Geotagged Photos with NULL direction field

I have some geotagged photos taken in QField on an Android device. Whenever I import these photos into QGIS using the "Import Geotagged Photos" tool, the "direction" field is NULL, ...
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Allow users to add and georeference photos in ArcGIS Online or Portal

Ideally a user could drag and drop a photo and then click on the map to georeference and add a photo to an online database for future reference. Is this possible with existing tools in ArcGIS Online ...
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Batch rename geotagged photos with QGIS python errors

Batch rename of geotagged photos taken inside a shapefile I have successfully created new name for the fid, but I have difficulties to pass forward. Everything went smooth, until the Python. I get ...
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Batch rename of geotagged photos taken inside a shapefile

I have hundreds of geotagged JPEG photos, with camera default naming, that are taken somewhere out there but always inside the borders of a shapefile. I need to rename them all with the shapefile id ...
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Import bulk geotagged images stored in web drive using table and convert this link into points

In the Excel sheet added. one column includes rows of links to geotagged images stored in webdrive. Is it possible to import from these links and convert it into point polygons? When the points are ...
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Is there any way to user input the folder path for the hyperlink to work properly?

So i have some geottagged photos and ive converted them to photos using the geotag photos to point tool. The hyperlink is also working as in the case the picture opens up when i click on the point. ...
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Adding GeoTag image details

I'm using QGIS 3.16 and I need to add some EXIF details to images, such as elevation or time. I am using the following code in Python console to add location to images, reading params from a table and ...
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ImportPhotos Plugin error - no new photos were added

I have 7 .JPG photos that I'm trying to import so that when I identify features, a photo will pop up on the feature that I click. I've been trying to use the ImportPhotos Plugin, but every time I ...
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QGIS: Importing geotagged photos 'Could not open' error

I am having a hard time importing geotagged photos using the 'Import geotagged photos' tool within QGIS 3.10. The photos I am importing do have GPS information within their properties, so I can't put ...
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How to geotag photos from KML files

I am using an application called Gaia GPS to analyze regions affected by large enterprises. So, when I travel to this specific places I mark waypoints and take pictures before, during and at the end ...
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Determining the camera direction of a geotagged image

Is there an easy way to determine the camera direction of a geotagged image? Maybe there are several methods for this.
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Using Photo points to "geotag" old images in QGIS

I have a bunch of old aerial images(in jpg format), however they do not contain any coordinates. I have a shape file which has the coordinates of the images and one of the attributes is the image file ...
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Extracting GPS coordinates from a large number of photos and then bring them into ArcMap as a shapefile

Long story short I'm doing surveying work and there is some debate on my team about whether or not pictures were taken in certain areas or if they were mislabeled and taken in the wrong sample area. ...
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QGIS: Add geotagged photos to already existing photos.gpkg file

I'm working with QGIS Desktop 3.4.12 Madeira, standalone. Operating System: Windows 10. Is it possible to add new geotagged images to an already existing „photos.gpkg“ file? If yes, how? The ...
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Is it possible to import movie into QGIS?

I would like to 'geotag' a movie in a QGIS layout. Is there a plugin that can accomplish this or have I missed something in the new release of QGIS?
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How to display a thumbnail of a geotagged photo in QGIS?

I am using Qgis 3.10 on windows. I have created a shapefile of geotagged photos using the 'Import photo's' plugin. This gives me a map with an icon at the location of each photo. The attribute table ...
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Hyperlinking images to geotagged photos in QGIS

How can I set up a geotagged photo on QGIS 3.4 to display the image? Currently it is just a geotagged point on the map without showing the photo.
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Create shapefile with images as attributes using JavaScript

I want to make a feature in a react.js web application where I can export/download shapefiles from the dashboard. I have implemented shp-write which takes a GeoJSON input. It is working fine with ...
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Viewing OSM tag information of known element

I'm trying to filter out all the lakes in an area using osmfilter with natural=water and water=lake. But some lakes are missing, so I want to view what tags are used for those missing lakes. For ...
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Coordinate tags of GeoTIFF are not recognized

I received a bunch of GeoTIFFs for which the location is not recognized. It think this is because the tags for storing the coordinates are not recognized as such. Is there a way to rename/convert ...
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Sentinel-1 SAR image is displayed upside down

I am looking at Sentinel-1 SAR image downloaded from ESA Copernicus - dhus location around south of Tokyo, Japan. File format is GeoTIFF. It looks good in QGIS. However, if I use SAGA, or SNAP, or ...
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Using ImportPhotos Plugin in QGIS

I have some geotagged photos saved on a network drive which I want to import into QGIS 3.2. I have installed the ImportPhotos Plugin. I have gone through the import photos process and selected the ...
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Changing coordinates of geotagged photos

I've geotagged photos stored locally on my computer, which were converted into points. But I am not happy about where those points are placed by (not very accurate GPS). On the map, I know for sure, ...
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Moving Multiple Points Into Single Polygon using ArcGIS Desktop?

I have several days worth of geotagged imagery to which I've attached a tree canopy mortality rating. The goal is to eventually join all of these classifications to a shapefile that contains watershed ...
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Using ArcPy with ArcMap Layout View to ExportToTiff with geotags?

I feel like this should be a lot easier than it is, all I am trying to do is create a geotiff that contains spatial referencing from arcmap in an automated manner as I have thousands to create. ...
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Adjust the time of the GPS

I'm taking some photos of my city and at the same time I'm recording the track so that I can geotag the images when done. The problem was that couldn't do it with all the software offered (HoudahGeo, ...
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how do I create a report with photos imported to my map?

How to create a report with geotagged photos printed after the map? I imported the photos using the processing toolbox and then used an HTML code in the map tips so they pop up when the cursor ...
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coordinates of objects from geo-tagged images

I have geo-tagged images (i.e have the latitude and longitude from where the images were taken) from a truck every 20 feet. I am trying to understand if it is possible to extract the latitude and ...
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Assigning an OSM originated tag to a Shapefile field in QGIS

I am using QGIS to do some basic data processing. I have a shapefile (originated from OSM data) that has a number of fields. One of those fields (tags) contains a bunch of tag data. Example of a "...
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Mapping relation nodes or way nodes to lat/lon coordinates?

The goal is to construct a data structure that takes the id of a node/way/relation and returns the pair of lat/lon or the collection of lat/lon coordinates assigned to it. So far, I have downloaded ...
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QGIS ImportPhotos plugin - north arrow

I'm using the QGIS ImportPhotos plugin to import photos taken on an iPhone and the coordinates of each photo displays as points based on the lat/long as expected. However what I would like to do is ...
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GeoTag and Import Photo Plugin ERROR what Caused?

An error occurred while executing the following Python code: KeyError: 'USERPROFILE' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/hermanguse/.qgis2/python/plugins/ImportPhotos/ImportPhotos.py", ...
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Empty error in ArcMap?

I used to run the GeoTagged Photos To Points tool fine. Now when I just open the tool window there is the red cross error next to the input field without me having added anything yet. When I try to ...
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photo georeferencing and python error [duplicate]

I write because I can’t use the plugin “Geotag and Import photos”. My version is 2.18.13 Las Palmas and it runs on WIN 7 Home. First of all, when I click on “Import photos” and specify the path to ...
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Calling and showing photo from layer shown in composer?

What I'm trying to do is to see images from photo-layer that are shown in the composer. There will be 6 images in each map. There will be a datatable from the point layer that contains the path and ...
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QGIS does not recognise coordinates from geotagged images

The issue is that geotagged images from thermal camera Flir Vue Pro R, as TIFF and sRGB, are not recognised by QGIS. The same applies to Parrot Sequoia images. The images are geotagged at shooting ...
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Deriving Topographic Information from Geotagged Photos?

I wish to extract elevation data from geotagged photos? I have worked with DEM's and the open source CLI program: GMT for my graduate studies. I own a DJI Phantom 3 and used the trial version of ...
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how do I view geotagged photos and audio points in qgis mac?

How can I view geotagged photos and play audio files in qgis? For photos, HTML map tooltips used to work in qgis, but don't as of 2.18.2. For audio, I don't know of a solution.
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Adding multiple Photos to ArcGIS Online?

I'm trying to add almost 400 geotagged photos to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) for a work project but with no avail. I've tried converting the geotagged photos to points in ArcMap and bringing this in to ...
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Reposition geotagged image on mapoeg [closed]

I am building a map in leaflet, rendering a variety of layers on top of the map. One layer contains geotagged images fetched from a folder (with Leaflet.Photo). Some of the images GPS locations are ...
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Can't upload Geotagged Photo folder in QGIS via Photo2KMZ?

I can't upload geotagged photos folder in QGIS via photo2KMZ. It's showing error as follows An error has occurred while executing Python code: KeyError: 'DateTime' Traceback (most recent call ...
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Sharing a QGIS project with geotagged images

I have a QGIS project file with geotagged images. Is there a simple way to share this with a client? We have come up with two possible solutions so far, which are not great: Prepare a QGIS project ...
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Geotagged photographs hosted on website and shared via KML

I have a database of about 500 geotagged photographs that I would like to host on my personal website, and then share as a KML to other users. They would get a relatively small KML file size (~1-2 MB) ...
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How can I store GPS and direction coordinates in EXIF data when geotagging photos on the Samsung S7

I am walking transects in the field for a research project and in addition to other GIS points I am loading photos as points into ArcMap using the Geotagged photos to points tool. I have found that a ...
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Clickable attributes with qgis2threejs

I have geotagged pictures which I have linked in QGIS to a point shapefile. In the attribute table of the shapefile, you can find the complete path to every picture, so theoretically it is clickable. ...
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Photos Map of a place on Instagram

Is there a method to display the photos map of a specific place posted on instagram? For example, i would to realize a photos map of my town Pietragalla with all photos posted on Instagram from all ...
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Why is the altitude information of the geotag from a drone/uav/uas/rpas (Phantom 3) so innaccurate?

I have a Phantom 3 4k and on examination of the geotag information the altitude reading is often inaccurate by 10-15 metres. Why is this? Is it because the drone only has a GPS rather than a DGPS unit?...
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Reproject Geotagged Photos

Having hard time on how to geotagged photos on the reprojected shapefile. I have these photos and waypoints with GCS_WGS_1984 projection, in which coordinates are on decimal degrees. In this ...
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Join/Link by date-time attribute

Using QGIS 2.14 I would need to join/link multiple layers with each a couple of hundred records with a georeferenced point layer - so basically much like geotagging of pictures. Do you have any idea ...
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