GPS tagging for EOS70D using smartphone

[Galactic Engineer]

I've been reading through the various threads about the lack of native GPS capability in the EOS 70D. In those threads, I've seen comments that suggest that it may be possible to use the GPS device in your smartphone to geotag the pictures in the camera, but so far, I haven't found anything that says for sure that you can or can't do that, or if so, how.

Ideally, I would prefer a solution that uses a Wi-fi connection to the phone, but I'd even consider a tethered solution if that was the only one available.

So, please, if anyone knows that it is, or is not possible with the 70D, please tell me.

Thanks,

Galactic Engineer

 

[johna]

A Galactic Engineer should that kind of thing! Anyways, I saw a comment somewhere about using his phone for that. But, his suggestion was to take a picture with his phone at his photo location and enter that gps data manually later into the metadata of his photos. Not too convenient but a cheap workaound. I'm not exactly sure how to do it. It seems like the idea is to open the Phone location coordinates in the Library view or to look up the location in Maps and synch the location data. Sorry i'm not very precise. I'm jut trying to mention the idea.

 

[Stakeouttoo]

if Canon can put GPS in their 6d as well as their Point & Shoot cameras they could have put it in the 70d rather than Wifi.. since we travel a lot I'd like to see GPS included when I upgrade from my 60d.. maybe in the 7dMkII if there ever will be one

 

[Jens Mogensen]

Well i have been using an app for my Iphone that records my position and then later when you are uploading yor shots to the computer it is possible to write the gps positions into the photo files. Works fine for me. You need to make shure that the time is acurate on your camera because thats what the app uses for placing the photos. The app is called gps4cam. You can find it in Appstore

 

[Galactic Engineer]

Well i have been using an app for my Iphone that records my position and then later when you are uploading yor shots to the computer it is possible to write the gps positions into the photo files. Works fine for me. You need to make shure that the time is acurate on your camera because thats what the app uses for placing the photos. The app is called gps4cam. You can find it in Appstore

Thanks Jens. I use an android phone now, but I just looked in the App store and there is a version of gps4cam for it as well. This is a clever solution to the problem that I hadn't considered. I knew I didn't want to manually edit the GPS info into the exif data, but if this app can do it automatically for me, that sounds like a good solution. Not as good as having the camera record the GPS info itself when it takes the shot, but not a bad compromise.

Thanks again,

Galactic Engineer (Bob)

 

[Neal Bkk]

I use GPX Master with my iPhone, only tricky part is making sure the times and timezone all match up.

I then import the gfx file into Lightroom to set the GPS on the photos.

 

[bigfatron]

Well i have been using an app for my Iphone that records my position and then later when you are uploading yor shots to the computer it is possible to write the gps positions into the photo files. Works fine for me. You need to make shure that the time is acurate on your camera because thats what the app uses for placing the photos. The app is called gps4cam. You can find it in Appstore

Thanks Jens. I use an android phone now, but I just looked in the App store and there is a version of gps4cam for it as well. This is a clever solution to the problem that I hadn't considered. I knew I didn't want to manually edit the GPS info into the exif data, but if this app can do it automatically for me, that sounds like a good solution. Not as good as having the camera record the GPS info itself when it takes the shot, but not a bad compromise.

Thanks again,

Galactic Engineer (Bob)

If you don't like hammering your phone battery by having the GPS on constantly then another option is a dedicated GPS recorder devices like http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS Products/BT-Q1000XT-F.htm

Not cheap, but more palatable than the ridiculously overpriced Canon accessory.

 

[Witstert]

Well i have been using an app for my Iphone that records my position and then later when you are uploading yor shots to the computer it is possible to write the gps positions into the photo files. Works fine for me. You need to make shure that the time is acurate on your camera because thats what the app uses for placing the photos. The app is called gps4cam. You can find it in Appstore

The same app is available in Google Play Store. It claims it is not necessary to synchronise the camera to the mobile device and that it will work with all cameras (DSLR?). Will be interesting to see comments