Copying geo data from one image to another.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In my last post I created a panorama by stitching a number of photographs together with DoubleTake. One problem with creating synthetic images is they lack the geo data I embed in the rest of the photographs from my GPS’ track log. I figured the always excellent exiftool could accomplish copying the data so it would be visible in Lightroom but I wasn’t entirely sure how. After some trial-and-error this worked:

$ exiftool -tagsfromfile Z09023676.dng -@ geotags.txt marmotpass.tiff

where geotags.txt is a list of all the tags to copy from the source image Z09023676.dng to the destination image marmotpass.tiff:

Exiftool on

Copying geo data from one image to another.