Geotagging NEF files

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The problem is there seems to be no software which can do all the geotagging steps and work with NEF files (Nikon RAW files). So this is a multistep process

  1. Get GPS track from the unit into GPX format - since I'm using a Garmin GPS, I use Mapsource for this one
  2. Copy the photos from the card to the PC - automaticaly done with ACDSee or PhaseONE or something
  3. Convert all photos to JPG - this is a pain, easiest and fastest I found so far is BibblePro, I have it output a special batch job with small images and all EXIF data intact. These get outputed into a seperate directory from out NEF originals)
  4. Geotag the photos - for this Microsoft Labs Location Stamper seems best
  5. Now "copy" the GPS data from the JPGs to the NEF files. This is a pain and best done from command line using ((ExifTool)). the command is
perl \ExifTool\exiftool -TagsFromFile  ./gps/%f.JPG -GPS:all -r -ext NEF .

note: this needs Perl installed. In the command ./gps/ is the folder that contains the JPG files (they were put there automaticaly by Bibble) Now just elete thumbnail files (in gps folder) and anything *.NEF_original (these were created by the ExifTool program)

Done.

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