Assigns a GPS location to an image. Requires exiftool to be installed. Copy the GPS locations from Google Maps.

set-gps-location.sh

# Example usage: sh set-gps-location.sh test.JPG "-32.326510, 19.020942"

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
    echo 'Image filename needs to be provided. Exiting'
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ] ; then
    echo 'Comma-separated list of GPS coords ( lat,lng ) needs to be supplied. Exiting'
    exit 1
fi

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/918886/how-do-i-split-a-string-on-a-delimiter-in-bash
gpsLocationInput=$2
gpsLocationNoWhiteSpace=(${gpsLocationInput// /})
gpsLocationLatLng=(${gpsLocationNoWhiteSpace//,/ })
echo ${gpsLocationLatLng[0]}
echo ${gpsLocationLatLng[1]}

exiftool -GPSLatitude=${gpsLocationLatLng[0]} -GPSLongitude=${gpsLocationLatLng[1]} $1