Just found a spiffy little tool (Geosetter) which you can use for setting the coordinates where a picture was taken in case you don’t have a built-in GPS or an add-on GPS in/on your camera. A nice feature is that the tool can update the metadata sidecar (.xmp) files which Lightroom makes use of. And it does indeed seem to work! Clicking the coordinates button in Lightroom brings up a browser with Google Maps showing the correct coordinates. I did also test that the GPS information follows all the way through to Smugmug as well (using the export plugin for Lightroom built by Jeffrey Friedl) and it works there as well – mucho nice!

I’ll use this a lot I think. Just tagged 366 pictures with coordinates. =)

Update:
Does anyone know if there’s an equivalent software for Mac OS X? I might need one when I decide to switch over to a MacBook Pro at home.

Update 2:
Looks liks PhotoGPSEditor is what I’m looking for. Can’t really try it without a Mac though. ;)

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