[GIS] Exporting geotagged photos from Google Earth Pro

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I have a project and I am assessing social media based landscape photographs. How can I download photos as point shapefile and export them from Google Earth Pro to ArcMap?

Best Answer

In Google earth you can right click on the location of the image then save as

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Once you are done with your photos, you save them in a folder in MyPlaces. You can give them the same names as the photos.Then right click on the folder name and select "Save Place As..."

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Choose the KMZ or KML Format and load it to your software.

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If your photos are Geotagged, I would simply use GPSBabel to load the photos and export the EXIF info (the coordinates) as Shapefiles.

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I hope this helps.

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