DIY - Geolocate and map from images

DIY Citizen Solutions
1

Problem you might want to solve
you have a lot of hyperlocal data you want to map and you dont want to use a bot or any such system.

Necessary Conditions

  1. You have a phone which can capture location with image, and you turn that setting on in your camera app
  2. You are able to go to that spot and take pictures
  3. Number of locations you want to map is greater than 10

How you can solve
You need:

  1. Images with geolocation info
  2. exiftool - available at exiftool.org

follow these instructions - run this command “exiftool -filename -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -T -n $PWD > filename.csv”

1 Like