Trouble Shooting

GPicSync stops?

Verify that your paths/names to the pictures and gpx files are ASCII (English characters) as Unicode support is not complete. Alternatively you may try version 1.28.

GPicSync geocoding went fine but location wasn't written in pictures metadata

Another software you've used may have altered or "corrupted" the picture metadata in a way that EXIFtool (library used by GPicSync) can't handle. Try geocoding with the original file coming from the camera to check.

No indications of localization appears

Check your gpx file first then your pictures this way.

You can open and modify your GPX file easily in a text editor: it has plenty of tags

<tag>
....
</tag>

Gpx files have one or more

<trkseg>
...
</trkseg>

which contain plenty of trackpoints

<trkpt>
...
</trkpt>

which says at which location you were at a precise time.

...
<trkseg>
  ... 
  <trkpt lat="48.50517319" lon="7.13916969">
    <ele>700.46</ele>
    <time>2007-03-04T12:05:16Z</time>
  </trkpt>
  <trkpt lat="48.50517286" lon="7.13916759">
    <ele>704.30</ele>
    <time>2007-03-04T12:05:18Z</time>
  </trkpt>
  <trkpt lat="48.50517294" lon="7.13916550">
    <ele>708.15</ele>
    <time>2007-03-04T12:05:20Z</time>
  </trkpt
  ... 
</trkseg>
...

In GPicSync use "Tools"->"GPX Inspector" to quickly see the data GPicSync finds.

If your gpx file seems fine use "Tools"->"EXIF Reader" and check now if your photos contain a 'Date/Time Original' field like (Date/Time Original : 2007:04:06 14:41:02). Some image processing software may erase metadata.

Geonames doesn't work

GPicSync can automatically retrieve "geonames" from www.geonames.org and add them to the EXIF metadata and a customized summary to the IPTC section.Many software will read those metadata and Flickr will use them to automatically to generate tags or description from the picture (IPTC summary).

To use the default Geonames settings check "add geonames and geotagged" in the interface and select either "Geonames in EXIF keywords + HTML sumarize in IPTC caption" or "Geonames in Keywords".

For better Geonames disponibility it is highly recommended to get your own free username account at http://www.geonames.org.

Your username can then be set in Menu option > configuration file > geonames_username=YourUserName. Save in Notepad, then 'quit' gpicsync (not 'quit and save settings') and reload. You can then test if geonames works for you by trying this URL and changing "demo" by the name of your login: http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?postalcode=9011&maxRows=10&username=demo More informations for the Geonames webservice can be find at http://www.geonames.org/export/

Customizing the geonames via the configuration file

You can further customize the geonames by editing and saving your configuration file:

• in GPicSync, "Options"->"Configuration file"

• edit, save your modification and quit your text editor

• click on the "quit" button of GPicSync

• reload GPicSync for the modification to take effect

This is the relevant section in the configuration file:

#Add geonames and geotagged in EXIF by default (True or False) and select the ones you want
geonamestags=True
geoname_nearbyplace=True
geoname_region=True
geoname_country=True
geoname_summary=True
geoname_userdefine=

#Add summary in IPTC with the following variables (if you use quotes escape them: \"  ):
#{LATITUDE} {LONGITUDE} {DISTANCETO} {NEARBYPLACE} {REGION} {COUNTRY}
geoname_caption=True
geoname_IPTCsummary=Taken at Latitude/Longitude:{LATITUDE}/{LONGITUDE} Near {NEARBYPLACE} {REGION} {COUNTRY} <a href=\"http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_{LATITUDE}_{LONGITUDE}.html\"> (Map link)</a>