Step by Step Guide in Importing Geotagged Photos into QGIS.

This activity assumes that you’re already familiar with GEOCam Pro. Geotagged photos used in this activity were generated using GEOCam Pro. For more information about the app you can download Geocam Pro at google play. There is a free version of the app but if you want an add. free application you can purchase the pro version.

A.) Importing Geotagphotos

There are several ways of importing geotagged photos within QGIS. Among them is the built-in plugins called Import Geotagged photos or by installing a plugins called Import Photos. For this activity, will try to import geotagged photos using Import Geotagged Photos which is a core plugin within QGIS. We import geotagged photos by first opening the QGIS software.

1. On the Menu toolbar, click the Processing Toolbox.

NOTE If you cannot see the processing toolbox on the Menu Toolbar try restarting your QGIS.

2. Type Import geotagged photos on the Search bar.

3. Double-click on Import geotagged photos and a dialog box will appear.

1. On the input folder, click on the button with three dots... to open the folder where geotagged photos are saved.

2. You may enable the Scan Recursively option to scan all the picture to make sure all geotagged pictures have location information.

3. You may also opt to save the result Photos as temporary files or you can save it permanently.

4. After saving the Photos make sure to enable the Open Output after running algrithm then hit Run.

Import Geotagged Photos - Creates a point layer corresponding to the geotagged locations from JPEG images from a source folder. Optionally the folder can be recursively scanned.

B.) Exporting the Geotagged Photos to Shape files.

After Importing the geotagged photos into QGIS, the resulting layer can now be save into vector format. The following are the steps to export the Photos layer into vector.

1. Rigth-click on the resulting layer.

2. Select Export then click Save feature As, a dialogbox will appear.

3. On the Format select Shapefiles.

4. Click the button with ..., to rename the output from Photos to whatever name you like.

5. After specifying the filename and the folder location hit Ok.

6. A new layer will be loaded with the name you specify.

7. You can now remove the Photos layer by rigth-clicking it and hit Remove layer....

Repeat all the procedures when importing picture into QGIS with spatial information.