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Set Up GeoTag to Add Location to Your Photos

It's quite fun, exciting, and memorable to keep track of where your photos are taken. A handful of digital camera have built-in GPS today. Many high-end SmartPhones, such as Android and iPhone, already track location on every photo taken with its build-in camera. But if your camera doesn't already track location, you can still track your location with a separate GPS. For example, you can use your Android phone track as shown in our "How to Use GPSLogger to Track Photo Locations" article. Once you have the GPS location file, you can use it to geotag with your photos. This article will help you set-up your computer to geotag your photos based on GPS logs. After setting up your computer to geotag, read the "How to Add Location to Your Photos with Geotag" article to start geotagging your exciting photo adventuress.

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This article is currently written for Windows users. In the future, we may expand this article for Mac users or write a separate article explicitly for Mac users.

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Setting Up Java Runtime Environment

Before you can geotag your photos, you'll need to set-up the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). That is because the "Geotag" software you will be using to geotag your photos requires JRE to run. Luckily, it's not too hard to set-up JRE. Follow the instructions in the "Easiest Way to Install Java for a Browser" article to set-up JRE.

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Setting Up ExifTool

The "Geotag" software also need the ExifTool to write the GPS coordinate into your photographs. ExifTool is a separately downloadable software, so you will need to get it. You can get the ExifTool on the ExifTool by Phil Harvey web site.

At this writing ExifTool is version 9.37. So, you will download "exiftool-9.37.zip" from the web site. For the sake of simplicity, you will save the file to your desktop (or your browser's download directory). After saving the ZIP archive, open it to find "exiftool(-k).exe". Drag this binary executable to the desktop. If you are an advanced user, you can drag it anywhere. But for this article, we'll use to the desktop. You can delete the ZIP archive once you have extracted the binary executable.

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Setting Up Geotag

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