There are many tools that can add GPS data to photos. But “Smart GPS Sync” is the first one, which makes it very easy to transfer GPS tags from one photo to another or even to another batch of photos. But why would this be useful if you can also use a GPS logger to log the entire track you traveled during your photo tour? Oftentimes several hundred photos are taken of a specific event in one location. Running a GPS logger during the entire time would make no sense in this case as the distance covered would be minimal and even irrelevant if the event took place indoors. It would be easier to quickly take a picture with a smartphone right at the current location and then use “Smart GPS Sync” by Picture Instruments to transfer the GPS data to all other photos.
To transfer the GPS data you can set whether GPS data will be transferred to photos that come chronologically before or after or are closest to the photo with the GPS tag. You can also define how far apart in time the photos with and without GPS tag can be for the GPS data to be transmitted.
Before the GPS data will actually be transmitted you can use the list preview to see which GPS tags will be transmitted to which photo. A left arrow marks a photo containing GPS data and arrows up and down point towards the photo containing GPS data, which will be transferred.
If no photo with GPS tag is currently available you can also copy latitude and longitude from Google Maps or Bing Maps and apply them to a whole batch of photos.
All in all it’s a very useful little helper for all wedding, event, architecture and on-location photographers as well as everybody who occasionally wants to geotag a photo from their camera without recording the entire trip.
If you work with software like Adobe Lightroom the use of Smart GPS Sync enables you to write the geodata into every single photo (JPG and RAW), which makes it unnecessary to reassign the photos for other programs at a later time.
If you want to remember where you took your best pictures in the years to come you should get this now!
Features:
- Transfers the GPS data from one photo to any number of photos
- Writes latitude and longitude information directly into the EXIF data of photos
- Geotagging without GPS logger
- Is able to remove GPS information from photos
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Reviews for Smart GPS Sync
Adding some GPS coordinates to your photos gives them some depth and help you save more memories at a snap. You won’t have to struggle finding out where the photo was taken or need to explain every photo to your friends and family. Smart GPS Sync will save you on two occasions. When you are shooting at one location and for some reason you don’t want to run your GPS logger continuously and when you took photos using a camera that has no GPS logger.
Pros
Track and harmonize existing log
Smart GPS Sync will look into your photos and extract existing GPS data. Couple this with the fact that it can let you apply this data to other photos in a batch and you get the ultimate location data editor that will can easily handle batch processes at a go.
Preview before applying
I found the preview feature quite useful – especially if one or two photos is out of place. The preview mode gives you the power to choose what photo will get the harmonized GPS data before committing. This is quite useful if you don’t want to mess things up.
Get provisional dimensions from maps
Smart GPS Sync’s ability to take in physical latitude and longitude feeds from Google or Bing maps solves the problem when there is no seed photo with GPS data. You can pinpoint the location where you took the photos on the maps and apply the GPS data to the photos.
Get rid of GPS data
You can get rid of the GPS logger data if you don’t want any on your photos. This is quite the sneaky tool that will help you hide and reveal locations as you please.
Verdict
I honestly couldn’t find anything functionally unsound with the Free Smart GPS Sync. It is the perfect tool to anyone who seeks to batch edit the GPS data on their photos. It’s light, super fast and easy to use making it a high quality precision tool.
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