Managing Location/GPS Metadata

[John Perry]

This is really a question for the larger community of Nitro users. In summary, I shoot RAW photos on my Sony camera, import them to Nitro (often initially ‘in the field’ on my iPad). I need to add location to the photos, and at the moment tend to do that to the processed .HEIC files (often in Apple Photos). My question is, does anyone have a workflow that adds location to the RAW files and preferably on an iPad. This would allow me to include the location in the processed .HEIC file, and importantly, if I reprocess the RAW (maybe when back at home-base), I don’t have to re-enter location data for ‘version 2’.

A subsidiary question… I like to keep the RAW file untouched (which I think is also the philosophy of Nitro). By adding location to the RAW file does it get saved in the sidecar file or am I likely to ‘update’ the RAW file.

Thank you for any thoughts and guidance, and apologies if this is already addressed elsewhere and I have missed it…
John Perry

[Nik Bhatt]

I do know of people who use various apps to write GPS into RAW files, so it’s not uncommon. Right now Nitro doesn’t have a feature to add location to an image. If / when I do add that, then where to store it will be an issue – some will want it in XMP (there is a spot for it) or written back to the file.

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