Quick Start

A quick introduction to using GPSPhotoLinker.

  1. Download Tracks: Connect your GPS to your computer by USB or USB-Serial adapter and select "Download" from the toolbar. Choose your GPS reciever type, the serial adapter you used to connect and click the "Download" button. If you have previously downloaded tracks, click "Load Tracks" and locate a GPX format track file. Once loaded, the program will indicate how many tracks with time/date information were found.
  2. Load Photos: Click Load photos and locate photos you would like to link to the track data.
  3. Set Photos' Time Zone: Choose the appropriate GMT Offset (time zone) for the time stamp on the photos.
  4. Choose a track point: If you select one photo, Single mode will display the two track points closest in time to the time/stamp on your photo. The "Preceding point" is the closest track point in time prior to the time stamp on the photo. Similarly, the "Next point" is the closest track point in time after the time stamp on the photo. Although not a real track point, there is also a "Time weighted average point" latitude/longitude you can choose to save to the photo. Clicking Save to photo on any of these options will immediately save the latitude, longitude, city, state, and country to the photo.
  5. Next Photo or use batch mode: Select the next photo and continue or use batch mode to automatically link all of the loaded photos.

Example files

Here are a few examples files that you can download and use for testing with GPSPhotoLinker.

Additional topics

Choosing a track point

Before saving a track point to the photo, consider the following.