Right click to drop a pin at the spot you’re interested in.

Here are the steps to get the latitude and longitude: Apple, of course, likes to hide such complicated technical information from its users, but there’s a way around the obfuscation. So I’d prefer to get the coordinates from Apple Maps. And I’m sick of having Google+ pushed at me. I know it has more and better information than Apple Maps, but its user interface has gotten worse over the years as Google has tried to squeeze more functionality into what is, when all is said and done, still just a web page. The thing is, I’ve come to hate Google Maps. Both the Drop LatLng Marker (enabled through Maps Labs) and the What’s Here context menu items will show the coordinates.

If I didn’t have such a photo, I could provide the latitude and longitude on the command line.Īt the time, the easiest way for me to get latitude and longitude (if I didn’t have an iPhone photo with it) was to go to Google Maps, find the spot where the photos were taken, and right click on it.

If I had a photo that already included GPS coordinates (one taken with an iPhone, for example), the script would extract that information and apply it to the non-GPS photos.

Next post Previous post Extracting coordinates from Apple MapsĪ couple of years ago, I wrote a script called coordinate that inserted latitude and longitude into the metadata of photographs I took with my regular, non-GPS-equipped, camera.

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