GPS2MapUrl.config

• Install
• Tag definitions
  • GoogleMapsUrl
  • BingMapsUrl
  • OpenStreetMapsUrl
  • MapquestMapsUrl
  • YandexMapsUrl
• User Parameters
  • Zoom
• Notes
• Revisions
• References:

GPS2MapUrl.config is a user-defined config file for exiftool. It creates composite tag definitions to create URLs for various map websites based upon GPS coordinates embedded in the file.

Install

Place this file in the same directory as exiftool.exe and start the command with -config GPS2MapUrl.config (requires exiftool v 10.70 or greater) or include the full path (relative or absolute) if saved elsewhere. Optionally, tags can be copied from this file (marked by the dash lines) and placed in the .exifTool_config file under the 'Image::ExifTool::Composite' => { line to have these tags available at all times.

Tag definitions

GoogleMapsUrl

This will create a link to Google maps based upon this StackOverflow answer

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32807681/3525475

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -GoogleMapsUrl FILE

BingMapsUrl

This will create a link to Bing maps based upon this page

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/articles/create-a-custom-map-url

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -BingMapsUrl FILE

OpenStreetMapsUrl

This will create a link to OpenStreetMap.org maps

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -OpenStreetMapsUrl FILE

MapquestMapsUrl

This will create a link to Mapquest maps

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -MapquestMapsUrl FILE

YandexMapsUrl

This will create a link to Yandex maps

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -YandexMapsUrl FILE

User Parameters

Zoom

This user parameter will add the level of zoom for the URL using the exiftool -userparam option. There is no check to verify that the parameter passed is a viable value for the zoom. The zoom value for most of these websites seems to be a number from 1 to 16-20, depending upon the site.

Example:

exiftool -config GPS2MapUrl.config -userparam Zoom=16 -BingMapsUrl FILE

Notes

• Bing Maps doesn't allow for the creation of push pins without an API key.
• Requires exiftool version to be before 11.54 or later than 11.57

Revisions

• Ver. 1.0 - 2019-02-04 - Bryan K. Williams (aka StarGeek) Created
• Ver. 1.1 - 2019-07-25 - Changed undef to empty string, fixed examples
• Ver. 1.2 - 2024-08-03 - Fixed MapQuest URL, note that MapQuest seems to have problems with some GPS Coordinates. For example, coordinates 40.6892, -74.0445 will not be found in MapQuest. Disabled Zoom in MapQuest as it no longer works. Removed "sp=point" from the Bing URL as it is ignored, Added default level 16 for Bing because without it Bing's default level of zoom shows to wide of an area

References:

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?msg=51226