OJW's image locator script

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Introduction

This script can combine a directory full of JPEG images, with a GPX tracklog, to produce a list of latitude/longitudes for each photo.

It takes into account the differences between your camera's clock and the GPS clock if you know them - one way to find this out is to take a photo of the GPS while it's displaying a clock.

Currently, it creates an HTML file showing thumbnails of each photo, with latitude/longitude, time, and the error (the difference in seconds between photo and the nearest GPS timestamp found)

Source code

OJW's image locator script - source code

Usage

perl ImageLocator.pl [Tracklog file] [Image directory] [GPS time] [Camera time] > output.html

Running the program

• ImageLocator.pl is the perl script (follow the source code link, and save it as a text file called ImageLocator.pl)

Options:

• Tracklog file is a GPX with tracklogs
• Image directory contains a load of JPEGs
• GPS time and camera time refer to the timestamps from GPS and camera respectively, for the same instant.
• GPS and camera times are in the format hh:mm:ss
• GPS time is likely to be using UT, so adjust accordingly.
• Output is to STDOUT as HTML, so > output.html stores that output in a file

Sample data

Example output

Bugs

• Not XML-aware, relies on gpsbabel's particular GPX output format
• Only searches backwards in time (i.e. the tracklog just before the photo was taken)
• Complete lack of commenting or neat headers

See also

• Photo mapping