Map and GPX geotagging
See where photos were taken, fix a location by hand, or place a whole shoot from a GPS track.
The map
Click Map at the top. Every photo with GPS in the current folders and filters appears as a pin; nearby pins group into a numbered cluster until you zoom in. Zoom in far enough and pins turn into small round thumbnails. Hover a pin to see the photo.
- Click a pin to open the photo’s panel.
- ⌘-click a pin to select or deselect it, then use the bar at the bottom as in the library.
- The filter bar works here too.
- The arrow keys step through the located photos, and Space opens the full-screen view.
The heading shows how many of the photos have a location, so you can see at a glance how many are missing one.
Fixing one photo’s location
- On the map: open the photo, then drag its pin to the right spot.
- In the photo’s panel: click the small map to move the pin, drag it, or type the latitude and longitude.
- From another photo: drag GPS & location’s ⠿ drag group onto the photo (or onto a selection).
The place name updates by itself after a location changes. Remember to save.
Placing a whole shoot from a GPX track
If you recorded a track with a phone app, watch or GPS logger while shooting, ExifXplorer can give each photo the position you were at when it was taken.
- Select the photos, then click Geotag from GPX… in the bar at the bottom.
- Click Choose GPX file… and pick the track.
- Check the preview: each photo shows the coordinates it will get, or “no match”.
- Click Geotag to apply.
When the camera clock was off
GPS tracks always record exact time, while the camera’s clock may have been an hour off, or never changed for daylight saving or a new time zone. When the photos don’t line up with the track, ExifXplorer looks for the difference and suggests it (“Detected: camera clock 1h ahead the track”). Click Use this to accept it.
You can also set it yourself: choose Camera clock ahead or Camera clock behind and enter the hours and minutes. The preview updates as you type.
Match within (min) sets how far, in minutes, a photo can be from the nearest track point and still get a position. Photos taken further from the track than that, or with no date, are left alone rather than given a guessed location.
To correct the photos’ own times as well, use Shift timestamps…. See Editing many photos at once.