How to Easily GeoTag Your Photographs

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I’ve had a comment on a recent photograph that I uploaded to my Flickr account, it was actually my Shoe Project photograph, and Neil Creek was asking me to Geotag it so he could see where it had been taken.

There was only one problem, I had no idea how to Geotag my photographs. I just never tried before because I thought you could only do it with special gear and a GPS, which I don’t have and I am not planning on getting.

What is Geotagging?

Simply put it is the process of adding geographical data to a photograph including longitude and latitude coordinates. Basically telling the world where you took that photo!

How do I do it?

So after this comment I decided I had to have a go. So that meant seeing what it was all about and how I could do it.

From what I can tell (on Flickr anyway) there’s two ways to Geotag photographs and I’m going to be looking at the second one, because I feel it’s the best method as anyone can use it:

1. Use a GPS device and associated kit adding it to the image file
2. Find the location manually on the Flickr map and add them yourself

Aah, so there is another way! And whats more it’s really easy to do with no special gear required. There’s even a handy video to show you how you can Geotag your photos by adding them to the map. It’s basically just a drag and drop in the Map tab in the Organiser.

I didn’t know I could do this with Flickr (or even that the help section was so good) so it just shows how good it can be to have a little look around sometimes.

Geotagging is great fun, and another way for people to find your photographs. Give it a go!

Mandy

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Iron Chef Photography: Shoe Project

Do you enter Photography Projects?

There are lots of photography projects around to participate in covering just about everything. So far I’ve only submitted to one project back in March but I want to do more, I think they are a great way to learn and challenge myself. So I’ve entered another one…

Above is my entry for Neil Creek’s Iron Chef Photography: Shoe Project that he runs on his blog. Submissions have now closed for this one, but that means the voting is about to start (and will end on 29th June).

The aim of the project besides taking photographs of shoes was to tell a story with the photograph. And that is what I have tried to do. I did actually climb the hill, and then took my shoes off to take the photograph of them!

It was very simple to enter the project, I just had to upload the image to my flickr account and then enter the address on the form. But it could have been on my blog or on any other photo management site as well.

There’s a public vote for entries as well as the judges vote so you may like to drop by and take a look?

Mandy

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