I’m trying to get rid of iPhoto and Photos and wanted to have a little Perl script that would go through the image files in a folder and rename them using the creation date and the nearest city.
Sadly, I ran it on a directory full of pictures and it only found the necessary EXIF data in three files. Now I’m sad.
Here’s the Perl script, if you’re interested, on GitHub.
It uses `Image::ExifTool` to get at the meta data and it uses `Geo::Coder::OSM` to determine the nearest city based on GPS meta data. This means that your photos must be taken using a camera that embeds GPS coordinates in the file.
Use `--verbose` to get an explanation if nothing happens.
#Perl #Pictures
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I’m waiting for the day when I will read your blog post named “Importing your data from Google+” or something along the lines. 😄
– AlexDaniel 2016-05-16 17:21 UTC
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Daaaaaaamn! 😄
Actually, I try to copy longer stuff I write to the blog, just so that it’ll survive Google+’s sun-setting. Gah.
– Alex Schroeder 2016-05-16 19:15 UTC
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I like http://geotag.sourceforge.net/ to add missing locations to pictures.
http://geotag.sourceforge.net/
– Sam 2016-05-17 12:27 UTC
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To be honest, most of my nice pictures are made using a camera without GPS and I’m usually way too lazy to keep the companion app running on my phone when I’m on a hike.
And back when I had a camera with a built in GPS, it turned out that the GPS took waaaaay too long to start up, and I ended up no liking the colors the camera produced.
So, I guess this project was more of a time waster, flexing my programming muscles while waiting for Claudia...
– Alex Schroeder 2016-05-17 15:24 UTC