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.

[John Perry]

Thank you, Nik. I’ll keep thinking it through!! …and see if others have workflows that might help.

[BenB]

Hello John.
Though I don’t use it that often the possibilities I use.
1. My camera (Panasonic) has an app for my iPhone and iPad that supports control for the camera. One of it’s functions is to register (on the iPhone, my iPad doesn’t support GPS) to register gps-location that I can batch transfer afterwards to the RAW-files in the camera.
As that consumes lot’s of battery consumption from my iPhone in practice I mostly use the following procedure:

2. If I like to have the gps data for my picture files (RAW HEIC or whatever) I tend to shoot a picture at that location with my iPhone (which automatically stores GPS-data) I then, either back home or during a trip on my iPad, I import the Raw-files into Apple Photos app as original RAW. And I import the relevant files from my iPhone. In Apple Photo’s I then “batch-copy” the location data to the relevant Raw file in Apple Photo’s Afterwards I use Nitro to do the edits.
i use the ability of Nitro to share the edits between iPad and iMac in either the (separately created Photo’s library) or Files).
Hope I pointed out clearly enough my workflow.
Of course you may find this cumbersome. But that’s the way I cope with it.

3. If I have forgotten to register the gos-data, I afterwards look up the location through maps of browser and then copy the gos data into Apple photo’s and do the batch editing to the files.

HtH
Ben

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