topic Re: How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility in Camera Software

How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility

murphyrl — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 01:44:36 GMT

I am using a 6D to create a GPS log file but I want to geotag images from other cameras. According to the manual and help files there should be an automatic way to geotag these images based on their time stamp. Unfortunately, I can not get the "fourth" icon on the bottom left corner of the image tab to show up so I can click it -- see page 12 of the manual for version 1.4 (this icon has a pin & + with AUTO underneath it).

Re: How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility

hsbn — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:43:18 GMT

I've never used Map Utility to do it. I use Geosetter (free for PC), it's fast and free. But you will need to convert LOG file from the camera to standard GPX file.

Re: How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility

murphyrl — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:53:00 GMT

Thanks, I will give it a try if I can't get Map Utility to work

Re: How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility

murphyrl — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:37:26 GMT

I had several conversations with Canon and seems Canon's Map Utility will not automatically geo-tag images so I switched to Geotag. It was a little tricky to get set up right (also needs GPSBabel, exiftool, and dcraw to be fully functional). I also wrote a little C-program to automatically run GPSBabel to convert Canon's log file to .gpx format and then execute Geotag. Everything works pretty smooth now and does what Map Utility should do.

Murf

Re: How do you automatically geotag images using Map Utility

hsbn — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:57:43 GMT

I use Lightroom, so I use Jeffrey plug in to reverse geotag. It also supports log file.