The GPS To Photo Project

Description:This small utility is to extract the GPS Latitude and Longitude information form a GPS track log file and imprint it to the digital JPEG pictures. Once the GPS Lat/Lon is stored into the picture, you can use third party software such like Opanda to view the location of the picture that was taken on Google Map.

Installation:1. Go to ActivePerl and download Windows version MSI (12.4M). Run ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.msi to install a PERL platform.

2. Download the application gps2Photo.zip. Unzip it to your C:\gps2Photo folder. Download from CNET 3. Usage: 1. From MapSource, upload tracks from your GPS device to MapSource. Click tab Tracks, select all tracks from the left panel. Click File->Save As and select Text(Tab delimilited) (*.txt) or GPX (.gpx) format.  Save the tracks to a new file at C:\gps2Photo\gps.txt or C:\gps2Photo\gps.gpx.  The gps.txt should look like this sample. 2. Copy JPEG pictures with file extension .jpg (eg. DSC_001.jpg) into folder C:\gps2Photo. 3. Open a DOS command window and run following commands: cd c:\gps2Photo perl gps2Photo.pl 4. After the execution, a new folder GPS is created. Under this folder, all JPEG files contain the GPS data. 5. Right click the new JPG file and select "Locate Spot on Map by GPS". The place where the picture was taken is displayed on Google Map. This function is provided by Opanda as described above. 6. Clean up folder C:\gps2Photo and leave only gps2Photo.pl and lib. Versions:0.4 July 12, 2006: Supported Time Zone parameter 0.3 October 15, 2005: Supported GPX tracklog format 0.2 October 09, 2005: Improved Accuracy Algorithm 0.1 October 06, 2005: Beta Test Copyright and Disclaimer:This program is copyrighted.  However you are free to download and use at your own risk. ActivePerl is registered under ww.activestate.com. Opanda is registered under www.opanda.com.  Library ExifTool belongs its own author.