How to extract GPS coordinates from Images in Python
Geolocating Photos and Extracting Coordinates in Python.
The pictures you take with your smartphone or digital camera have rich metadata of additional information about the photo. They store this metadata in a format called EXIF, short for Exchangeable Image File Format, which has different standard versions.
Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras.
The EXIF metadata might have information about the model of the device, dimensions, the date of the picture, and its location.
This article will teach you how to extract the EXIF metadata from images using Python, including where that photo was taken. Extracting location information from Photos can help you as a Geospatial data scientist have additional information for your analysis or model.
EXIF in Python
We start with getting the EXIF metadata using the EXIF Python library. First, we open the image and pass it to exif.Image method.
