Garmin has a utility to geotag photos

Garmin BaseCamp has a utility to geotag photos using a track recorded with a Garmin GPS. I haven't used our GPS on an outing with the 7D, but used it a great deal last September while driving around the Yukon; so I wondered if BaseCamp would geotag the photos taken with a S5 or A70.

A Garmin eTrex Legend and the Canon A70 (small & doesn't matter if it breaks!) were used while on a trials motorcycle ride into a remote area bordering Kluane National Park. I loaded the GPS track into BaseCamp. Then browsed to the folder with the photos. BaseCamp put a thumbnail of the photo on the map in the location it was taken (and a waypoint). It also added the GPS data to the data file for the photo.

This is the new info added, viewed via PhotoShop's "File Info":

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

This is interesting, thanks for posting.

Any idea if it can work with RAW files? I suspect it can work but it will have to store the data in a sidecar (separate file) that would accompany the raw.

That's the same data that Downloader Pro or Breezebrowser Pro can extract from your Garmin tracks; it's added as part of the XMP sidecar to my RAW files using either of those. BreezeBrowser Pro will also display your track and the photos on Google Earth. I'll have to scout around for BaseCamp; it doesn't seem to be part of the software I got with my Oregon 400t, even though the 1:100 000 topos are supposed to include that. I've got a NC US 1:24 000 DVD; presumably it'll be available on that.

Does BaseCamp allow you to set a time offset if you know (or later determine) that the time of the camera and the time of the GPS differ? Most of my cameras were right, but I discovered after the fact in January that my A630 was 90 sec. off and just last weekend that my SX1 was 117 sec. off (corrections empirically determined by matching an aerial of a known location with Google Earth view of that location and applying corrections in BreezeBrowser until the camera position agreed with the photo composition). Such small corrections aren't a problem if you're on foot, but in a moving car it could be a problem and from an aircraft it's significant (which is what tipped me off).

OK - I finally found BaseCamp for the PC on the Garmin site. Go HERE to start the download process.