If you don’t own a camera with GPS, but you are in possession of a GPS tracker (such as Garmin Edge), you can still geo tag your pictures quite easily.
On the last excursion I tried to geotag my photos.
It didn’t work (on flickr), because you first have to activate your account to allow Flickr processing the GPS exif information. I don’t know why, flickr does not use that information from the beginning?!? Maybe some strange privacy thoughts…
I used my Garmin Edge 705 bicycle computer to geotag my photos as follows:
- Set the time of your camera as the one on the garmin. (Eventually you might set recording data to “1sec” instead of “automatic”, for better gps precision on the photos later)
- When you’re ready to shoot, just start your track on the garmin. (You might configure and select another “bike” definition to not fake your total distance count of your real bicycle)
- When finished shooting, just stop your track on the garmin.
- Use a software to automatically add the gps information to your pictures.
- Do whatever you want with them, i.e. upload them to flickr and check the map!
I use GPS Photo Linker for now on my mac. I’ll try with another photo session, if now also works on flickr, after I have activated my account for geotagging.