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Locating Images by Geotagging

Geotagging refers to the attaching of geographic coordinate information to images, video, and other media recorded by smartphones or GPS-enabled electronic devices. Geotagged photographs, for example, contain geospatial metadata such as latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude, bearing, and more. There are also several websites that allow you to geotag your photographs.

The Tools>Locate>Locate Images by Geotagging command marries the Tools>Locate>Locate by Coordinate command with link fields, which allow you to link documents, programs, web sites, and more to map features (for more information, see Linking Documents, Files, & Web Sites to Map Features).

When you locate images by geotagging, Maptitude reads geotags from images and creates points in a geographic file based on the coordinate information in the images. Fields in the geographic file are populated with the image file name and other location information read from the geotags and you can access the images using the Info Link Info Link button icon tool.

Blue triangle iconTo Locate Images by Geotagging

  1. Choose Tools>Locate>Locate Images by Geotagging. Maptitude displays the Choose Images Folder dialog box.
  2. Choose a folder where the images are located and click Select Folder. Maptitude displays the Choose a File Name dialog box.
  3. Type a name for the new point geographic file in the File Name text box and click Save. Maptitude locates the images and displays the Locate by Coordinates dialog box to show the number of records located.
  4. Click OK.

Maptitude opens the geographic file in a new map.

Blue triangle iconTo Locate Images to a Layer that Contains Geotagged Images

  1. Make the layer that contains the geotagged images the working layer.
  2. Choose Tools>Locate>Locate Images by Geotagging. Maptitude displays the Locate Images by Geotagging dialog box.
  3. Click Yes. Maptitude locates the images and displays the Locate by Coordinates dialog box to show the number of records located.
  4. Click OK.

Maptitude adds the images to the working layer.
 

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