geo-rename

Adds IPTC geographic metadata to photos by reverse geocoding from lat/lon, the following IPTC tags are added:

• Country
• State
• City
• Location

Installation

0. Install Node
1. Install ExifTool
2. Run npm install -g geo-rename (or yarn global add geo-rename if you have Yarn)

Usage

geo-rename [OPTIONS] [FILES]

Options:

  --cache-folder <path>
  -f, --force
  -h, --help
  --offline
  -q, --quiet
  -s, --skip-backup
  -v, --verbose
  -V, --version

Warning

• I have not tested this other than with my own photos. May or may not work with your photos. Use at your own risk.
• Google only allows 15,000 requests per IP per day. Script uses a local cache, but if you have many unique locations and photos, you may run over this limit.

Renaming via exiftool

Fails if one of these isn't defined though:

exiftool nontagged.jpg '-testname<${CreateDate;%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S} ${Location;}-${City;}-${State;}-${Country}%-c.%le' 

Changelog

• 0.0.0: Poor quality code sitting on GitHub for the world to see

Roadmap / TODO

• [x] Query Google
• [x] Cache in db
• [x] Write to files
• [x] Support reading directories
• [ ] Write tests
• [ ] Consider exiftool-vendored (check performance)
• [ ] Setup code auto-formatting & lint
• [ ] Consider using flow https://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2017/01/npm-flowjs-javascript/
• [ ] Allow configuring Google API key
• [ ] Renaming
  • [ ] Preview
  • [ ] Allow output to destination directory
• [ ] Bash completion via tabtab or other
• [ ] Ditch debug for verbose output for better output
• [ ] Progress bar
• [ ] Emoji / prettier output? https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#command-line-utilities
• [ ] Update notification https://github.com/yeoman/update-notifier

License

MIT