Phone GPS reference photos
Copy GPS from iPhone photos to camera photos
If your iPhone captured location but your DSLR or mirrorless camera did not, GeoTagCopy can use the iPhone photos as GPS donors for nearby camera photos from the same trip or shoot.
When this works well
It works best when you took a few iPhone photos in the same places where you used your camera. GeoTagCopy reads the timestamps, finds nearby untagged photos, and lets you check the matches before it writes metadata.
Why not use a GPX file?
GPX tracklogs are useful, but you have to start them before the shoot. GeoTagCopy is for the less tidy version of events: the phone photos have GPS, the camera photos do not, and you are fixing it later.
Basic steps
- Pick the folder that contains geotagged iPhone photos.
- Pick the folder with camera photos that need GPS.
- Check the timestamp and location groups.
- Use GeoTagCopy to write the coordinates with ExifTool.