Geotag and Import Photos plugin

20.07.2012 19:09 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins

One type of data used in GIS is geotagged photos, i.e., photos whose metadata includes the coordinates of the location where the photo was taken. But there are not many tools for working with such photos in QGIS: all that comes to mind are eVis, photo2shape and its little-known ideological parent, ImagesToShape. In principle, these two modules are sufficient for many tasks. You can use photo2shape to map the locations of photos and use eVis to view geotagged photos and link them or other documents to features of a vector layer. Sooner or later, however, a task will arise for which the capabilities of the existing tools are not sufficient.

Geotag and Import Photos is a new QGIS plugin developed for NaturalGIS. It allows you to process geotagged photos, geotag them and create a point shapefile from them.

Key features:

• batch geotagging photos using a point shapefile or manually defined coordinates
• add custom tags and/or modify existing tags in batch mode
• create a point shapefile with a fully customisable list of attributes from a set of geotagged photos
• ability to append data to an existing shapefile