Organizing photos by geolocation from the command line
Fri 21 June 2024
Want to organize your photos by gps/geolocation, but don't feel like dealing with a slow GUI app?
That's ok, you can do it from the command line!
precision=2
for file in *.jp*g
do
coord=$(exiftool -c "%.${precision}f" "$file" |grep GPS.Position |sed 's/^[^:]*:[[:space:]]*//')
dir="gps/$coord"
if mkdir -p "$dir"; then
mv "$file" "$dir/" || echo "ERROR moving $file"
else
echo "ERROR creating $dir"
fi
done
Note that the $precision variable defines how many decimals of precision to use when sorting the photos. I found that 2 is usually good to give an approximate location, but if you have several photos right next to each other, you may wish to run it again on the conjoined set with a higher precision. The default for exiftool is 6.
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