Problem with Geo tagging

I like to geo tag my photos, at least those taken away from home. Prior to our holiday next week I wanted to check I could do this with the K20D, since most of the photos taken thus far with it have been around my home town.

Yesterday we went to the bulb fields and took some photos. Once home I duly converted some of the photos to jpegs to tag, using locr which is what I always (successfully) used with the Ds. But it didn't work.

It would not tag the jpegs. All I got was a message asking whether I wanted the GPS coordinates removed from the exif. Even if I said yes to that I still couldn't tag my photos.

I even tried with jpegs straight from the camera, and they didn't work either.

I did nothing different to what I did with the Ds, so I am stumped.

Is there something different about K20D jpegs? Maybe they are just too big to be tagged? Any ideas welcome. I really would like to get this sorted before I go to the US on Saturday.

I have used photomapper (http://copiks.com/software/photomapper/) on my K200d jpegs. Just make sure that you set you camera time correctly (or else know the offset!)

Hope this helps
Tim

Thanks Tim, I've just tried Photomapper, but that doesn't work either for the K20D images. Both Photomapper and Locr work fine for the Ds images but not for the K20D images.
The camera time is set correctly.

Gwyn,

You could try Geosetter. This works with allmost every image file.
Be carefull though with geotagging RAW files, it works but in some occasions Silkypix doesn't like the Geotagged RAW files.

Geosetter is free software as well and it has frequent updates.
The user interface is available in: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Russian and Norwegian

It allso features a option to upload images to your Locr account.

Link: http://www.geosetter.de

/Remco

Another advantage of Geosetter is that you can include a lot of extra information as well. It features an option to download the altitude belonging to that location from the internet (GPS devices do not allways display the correct altitude).
It can allso retrieve Country, County, City and street information and add that to the EXIF data.

Hi Gwen,

Have you tried a couple of shots with reduced JPEG Mpixels on the K20D (from memory it does 6MP, 10MP, and 14MP) it may simply be that your software cannot cope with the larger size of file.
If it works at 6 or 10MP then it may be time to look at upgrading the program - or using one of the others already suggested.

Thanks everyone. I shall try Geosetter later this evening. Being able to tag the RAW files would be great.
The weather is too nice now to spend long indoors at the computer. If I don't get it sorted it isn't the end of the world. I can always manually tag them using my husbands photos as a reference. But given that we are away for 4 weeks that will be a lot of photos to tag,even if I only do the keepers
Who knows maybe one of those extra knobs and buttons on the mystery new camera is for geotagging . Another reason for me to buy it.

But a GPS receiver will increase the power usage and it will still take a while for it to get a fix on the position. When I go hiking for example I turn the logger on when I start so it is allways logging. When the GPS receiver is in the camera it will start looking for satellites the moment you turn the camera on. If you are unlucky it will take a couple of minutes for it to get a fix.

I personally prefer a normal GPS logger because it is allso usefull when you are not taking the camera with you. Because it records a complete track of where you have been. And with the 2GB of storage memory in my small logger (Columbus V900) I can store 24/7 for approx 260 days let alone when you use it about 5 hours a day. The battery lasts for about 24 hours.