Geolocating photos

Photos that are taken with GPS-enabled cameras, including smartphones, store location information in the header of the file in a format called EXIF tags. These tags are based largely on the same header tags that are used by the TIFF image standard. In this example, we'll use those tags to create a shapefile with point locations for the photos, and file paths to the photos, as attributes.

We’ll use the PIL in this example because it has the ability to extract EXIF data. Most photos that are taken with smartphones are geotagged images; however, you can download the set used in this example from https://git.io/vczR0:

1. First, we'll import the libraries that we need, including PIL for the image metadata and PyShp for the shapefiles:

import glob
import os
try:
 import Image
 import ImageDraw
except ImportError:
 from PIL import Image
 from PIL.ExifTags...