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Just want to reinforce what James_N has recommended in a couple places scattered in the forums for geotagging photographs.
Jeffrey Fiedl's Genecoding Plugin for Lightroom II is a very easy way to geotag photographs with GPS data. It includes location, direction, speed and possibly other items.
It is independent of image file type or camera manufacturer:
Jeff Friedl's Geoencode plugin for Lightroom II
It uses an interpolation method. It reads a GPS tracking log and and processes it against a set of selected photographs from within LR. When it has a hit it creates a sidecar file that holds "shadow" GPS data.
It is not as nice as geotagging directly into the EXIF at shutter time but is a very reasonable and dirt cheap alternative. (Friedl requires registration after 6 weeks that you purchase with a donation... that donation can be 1 cent)
Once setup it all works neatly and quickly from within Lightroom II.
If you always use a default folder to hold your incoming tracking log then geotagging is as easy as selecting the photographs you want to geotag, selecting "Geoencode..." in "Plugin Extras" under the "Edit" menu and clicking the "Geoencode Images" button. Geoencode does the rest.
Geoencode reads the tracking log right out of my GPS without the hassle of a GPSBabel translation or any other file manipulation. I simply upload the tracking log at the same time as I upload the pictures. Then after importing the pictures into LR I simply select them all and run the Geoencode Plugin. I have not used it extensively with hundreds of photos yet so can't tell if it is industrial strength, but it has worked like a charm so far.
Geoencode gets a big thumbs up from me.
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