How-to Guides
Practical, opinionated guides that cover everything from a single mystery photo to a 5,000-photo library.
How to Add GPS Coordinates to a Photo
Four ways to write a known location into a photo's EXIF data — on your phone, with a desktop map, with ExifTool, or a whole folder at once — so every app shows the place.
How to Add GPS Location to Scanned Photos
Two ways to add GPS to scanned photos: write known coordinates with your phone or ExifTool, or let AI infer the location from what the image shows.
How to Add or Fix Location in Apple Photos (Including Scanned & Imported Photos)
Apple Photos keeps location in its own library, not in the file — so it doesn't follow your photos elsewhere. Here's how to embed real GPS that shows up everywhere.
How to Add or Edit Location in Google Photos
Add, edit, or fix a missing location in Google Photos on desktop, Android, and iPhone — and why the location field is sometimes greyed out.
How to Batch Geotag Photos
Geotagging hundreds or thousands of photos without clicking each one. The method splits on one question — do you know the locations? Known: ExifTool and a CSV. Unknown: AI batch suggestions.
How to Find Where a Photo Was Taken
Three practical ways to identify the location of a single photo — checking the EXIF data first, reverse image search for famous places, and AI visual recognition for everything else.
How to Geotag DSLR Photos Retroactively (When You Forgot to Record GPS)
Most DSLRs don't record GPS, and a tracker only helps if you ran one at the time. Here's how to add location to DSLR photos you already shot — even with no track log.
How to Geotag Photos from a GPX Track
Sync a GPX tracklog to your photos in Lightroom or ExifTool, handle the camera-clock offset that trips most people, and what to do when there's no track.
How to Add Location to iPhone Photos
Why iPhone photos sometimes have no location, how to add or fix it one photo at a time with the built-in editor, and how to handle a whole batch on a Mac.
How to Geotag Old Photos Without GPS Data
Three honest methods for adding location to old photos with no GPS metadata — manual map tagging, AI visual recognition, and GPS-track matching. Compared side-by-side.
How to Geotag Photos with ExifTool (Without the Headache)
Write GPS coordinates into any photo's EXIF with ExifTool — single files, GPX tracks, or a whole folder — and verify they landed correctly.
How to Geotag Photos in Lightroom Classic
Step-by-step: geotag photos in Lightroom Classic with the Map module — manual pin drop and GPX tracklog Auto-Tag — plus what to do when you don't know where a photo was taken.