Geotagging, for some reason I thought it was built in...

what with all the wifi and stuff on the a6000. Alas, it turns out it isn't, and id love to have it, but how do I go about it? I have a Samsung Note 4, so I wont be buying an extra GPS transmitter.

Any experiences would be great! What I want to have is the ability to basically go for a walk, take photos and be able to see on google maps the route, the locations of the pics taken with little thumbnails and the time.

GPS is consumes an enormous amount of power for any camera, significantly more than a periodically activated WiFi does. Still, Sony had it on their first high-end translucent APS-C dSLR, the SLT-A55, then the A77, and the A99, i.e. you had to be going ever higher in the class to get it. The NEX range has even smaller batteries, so it is understandable it is not included.

Please note that a mobile phone can operate it with less because it does not power down, and it already has an approximate location thanks to knowing exactly where every mobile base tower and most wifi networks are located around the globe. knowing your approximate position down to a city block is a very big help for a GPS.

As a compromise, there are apps out there that will help you, tracking your time and movement through the GPS, and later assigning it to pictures. I haven't used any of them, but I know they exist for this very reason.

timatkins said:

what with all the wifi and stuff on the a6000. Alas, it turns out it isn't, and id love to have it, but how do I go about it? I have a Samsung Note 4, so I wont be buying an extra GPS transmitter.

Any experiences would be great! What I want to have is the ability to basically go for a walk, take photos and be able to see on google maps the route, the locations of the pics taken with little thumbnails and the time.

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What I do this :

• I use the Moves app to track my location
• I export my location tracks as GPX files using this site
• I then use Lightroom to tag my photos using the GPX files.

It's super easy and very accurate. The only thing to remember is to make sure that you've synchronized the time and date between your camera and your phone as these are the common data points used for geo-tagging by Lightroom.

Thanks Christopher for the reply! I find it mindboggling that with the wifi capabilities sony haven't released an app that would do this. Its seems like its the perfect reason for it!

I will check out moves, cheers! Any other options out there?

I have heard good things about geotag photos II as well.

I use Google "tracks" to save and export gpx. I use geotagger freeware to tag photos. I usually just take a photo of gps time on my phone when I get back and use that to handle any camera clock errors comparing that photo's exif time to the image. Geotagger offers time adjustment, and tons of other features.

Just an option, the older EyeFi Pro X2 SD cards can geotag. I do not think the newer Mobi cards will (not too sure).

Use remote shooting with your phone, enable GPS that way for the first few pics you take. Then copy that location data to the rest of the images in Lightroom. Relatively easy.

Is geotagging turn on automatic if you are in a public wifi spot? What I noticed that my recent trips to Korea and Bali, when I put the photos to my iPhone, it has location marked on quite a few of the photos.

This is for the Nex 6 camera.

There are probably lots of good solutions, but one popular one, which I use, is Geotag Photos Pro. I use the iOS version, but I see that it is also available for Android. It syncs data with Dropbox which is pretty convenient.

nagi603 said:

GPS is consumes an enormous amount of power for any camera... Sony had it on their first high-end translucent APS-C dSLR, the SLT-A55, then the A77, and the A99...

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It does not consume an enormous amount of power. It's very frugal with power consumption, though people who have no direct experience with it often assume otherwise. Testimonials to the low power consumption exist in Sony's user manuals (compare the A55 against the A55v and see how minor a difference GPS makes for tested battery life) and also in direct reports from owners of those cameras who actually use GPS.

nagi603 said:

... you had to be going ever higher in the class to get it.

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Or you could (and still can) move down in the product line to get it. For years, many of Sony's low-end Cyber-shot cameras had good implementations of GPS, and a couple of today's models do as well.