Geotag2kml: python script to create a KML file from geotagged pictures

Sometimes it's not the photo itself that matters, but where the photo was taken.

I needed a tool to parse thousands of geotagged pictures and show them on Google Earth. I wrote a Python script based in part on what was posted years ago in the ExifTool Forum.

My script was written to:

• parse recursively geotagged pictures
• create a KML file to show geotagged pictures on Google Earth
• group and sort GPS data by date
• show visually for each date where the first geotagged picture was taken. Each first GPS point is indicated by the icon of a small man
• connect the GPS points of each date with a colored line
• get the preview of a picture when clicking on a placemark
• list make and model information of each digital camera used to take and geotag the analyzed photos
• speed up my analysis ;)

Prerequisites

• Python v2.7
• Exiftool (rename the executable to "exiftool.exe" and put it in the same folder of the script)
• Google Earth

Usage

Run the script and type the absolute path of the directory containing your pictures. The script will create and save in this path a file named "GoogleEarth.kml".

Download

geotag2kml v0.1

Here are a couple of screenshots.