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[kwake]

Hi all, I just purchased a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 which has a GPS receiver and noticed that the GPS coordinates recorded with my pictures don't seem to be showing up anywhere when looking at the tags within MC17.

Can anyone enlighten me on if this is possible, and if not, if it's being planned for a future update?

Thanks,
Kwake

[Phil LD]

+1

[Matt]

It's already supported.  You should be able to right-click any geo tagged images and pick the option to show on Google Maps.

[kwake]

I'm not sure that we're talking about 'GeoTagged' in my case - it's most likely Panasonic's proprietary tagging of the coordinates that isn't being picked up by MC at all. There is no evidence of a tag containing the coordinates data, and no option to display in Google Maps on a right click.

Any chance this can be added in a future update?

Thanks,
Kwake

[Scolex]

Have you checked the latitude and longitude tags?

[rick.ca]

I just purchased a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 which has a GPS receiver...

Are you sure? Googling for specs on that model provides nothing to suggest it has GPS. Also, the camera saves images as JPEG. It seems unlikely proprietary tags would be used instead of standard EXIF.

[Scolex]

Are you sure? Googling for specs on that model provides nothing to suggest it has GPS. Also, the camera saves images as JPEG. It seems unlikely proprietary tags would be used instead of standard EXIF.

Even a search in the user manual comes up empty when searching for GPS or geo.

[kwake]

Sorry everyone, I made a mistake, it's actually the TZ20! (I have an older TZ-5 and got mixed up).

[rick.ca]

Can you post an screenshot of the 'detailed format information' displayed by clicking the first line in the tag window? It should look something like the attached. Or downsize an image so it's less than 700 KB and upload it—so we can examine the file tags.

[syndromeofadown]

The tag fields you should be looking for are [Latitude] and [Longitude].
They are EXIF.
Make sure GPS is enabled in your camera.

I use a Panasonic DCM-TS4 that has GPS and compass.
To view the Lat, Long and Direction values, i either import my images or drag them into playing now.
Then after highlighting them i click tag in the lower left corner of MC.
I then click the 'Format' field to show a list of values.
Below is one i Just copied:

Code: [Select]

4000 x 3000 - 4.7 MB
7/20/2012 1:57 PM
Panasonic DMC-TS4
ISO-100 - F/5.9 - 1/60 sec.
Focal Length: 22.8 mm
Metering: Matrix
White Balance: Incandescent
Flash: Yes
JPEG Quality: Fine
Orientation: Normal
Exposure Bias: 0
GPS Latitude: 60°20'25"N
GPS Longitude: 134°30'36"W
GPS Altitude: 1240
GPS TimeStamp: 21:52:46
GPS Direction: T225


If the GPS position was fixed the the direction has a 'T' prefix for true because the camera can calculate the declination.

If the GPS position is not fixed the direction has an 'M' for magnetic(uncorrected) bearing.

I use these fields to rename my images to something more useful than the default naming.
To do this i select my images, right click, and choose 'Rename, Move & Copy Files'
then i paste the following in the filename box

Code: [Select]

=FormatDate([Date modified,0],yyyy-MM-dd@HH.mm.ss,No Date),replace(replace([Direction],M,Mag Bearing-),T,True Bearing-)°,Lat replace([Latitude],",s),Long replace([Longitude],",s)
The resulting files names look like this:
2012-07-20@12.43.24,True Bearing-0°,Lat 60°20'27sN,Long 134°30'34sW
2012-07-20@13.49.42,Mag Bearing-45°,Lat 60°20'27sN,Long 134°30'34sW
2012-07-18@13.24.50,True Bearing-180°,Lat 60°21'29sN,Long 134°31'6sW

Note that file names cannot contain quotes/seconds(") so i replace them with 's'.

Something for the developers to consider is that 1 second of latitude equals about 100 feet or 30 metres on the ground.
If the Lat and Long values were shown in MC to 1 decimal place, the position would be shown at an accuracy equal the the gps measurement.
Please consider changing this.


One more thing.
When i right click my images in windows 7 and choose details the lat and long are shown there.

[kwake]

Thanks rick.ca and Syndromeofadown!

I had thought the GPS coordinates would be displayed in fields showing by default when selecting "Show all Tags".

So I followed your instructions and clicked both the 'Detailed Format Information' and the 'Format' tag and see all the GPS information recorded into the JPG by my camera.

Thanks again for the guidance - now I'm going to check if Google Picasa will make use of this information to automatically create the link to Google Maps within my photo albums.

Cheers,
Kwake