Geotag Photos Online
Upload an existing photo and add or change its GPS location directly in EXIF metadata.
Your photo is processed locally in your browser.
Drag & drop a photo here, or click to choose a file
JPG only · up to 20MB · processed locally in your browser
JPG only — PNG, WebP and HEIC cannot reliably carry GPS EXIF that photo apps read. Why only JPG? See Supported Photo Formats below.
What Is Photo Geotagging?
Photo geotagging means storing the geographic position of a photo inside the file itself. When you geotag a photo, its GPS latitude and longitude are written into the EXIF metadata — a small data block embedded in the image file that cameras, phones and photo services read.
Latitude and longitude are the two numbers every mapping system understands: latitude describes the north–south position (from -90° at the south pole to +90° at the north pole), longitude the east–west position (from -180° to +180°). Once those coordinates are embedded, photo libraries such as Apple Photos or Google Photos can show the shot on a map, group pictures by place, and let you search your library by location.
A geotag is invisible by default: it lives in the metadata, not on the picture. Geotagging a photo changes where software thinks it was taken — not a single pixel of the visible image.
How to Geotag a Photo Online
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Upload Your Photo
Select or drag & drop a JPG photo into the tool above. The tool immediately reads the existing EXIF metadata and shows what it finds: GPS coordinates already stored in the file, the capture time and the camera make and model.
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Choose or Search for a Location
Set the new location however suits you: click a spot on the map, search for a city, address or landmark and pick a result, type latitude and longitude manually, or fill in your device's current location.
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Save GPS Location to EXIF
Click "Save GPS Location to EXIF". The tool writes your coordinates into the photo's GPS EXIF fields — if the photo already had a location, the old value is fully overwritten. The result is verified by re-reading the saved file before you can download it.
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Download the Geotagged Photo
Download the geotagged photo. It keeps the original resolution, orientation and visual content — only the GPS metadata has changed. To verify, drag the downloaded file back into the tool and watch the map jump to the new position.
Add or Change GPS Location
Plenty of photos have no location at all: shots from a camera without GPS, pictures stripped of metadata by messaging apps, scans of old film photos, screenshots. Geotagging adds GPS coordinates to those photos so your photo library can place and search them correctly.
If a photo already carries a GPS tag, the upload shows the stored coordinates and lets you correct them. Writing a new location replaces the old one completely — handy when a phone recorded the wrong spot, when you want to fix the place of a scanned or re-digitised photo, or when the saved position is off by a street or a whole city.
What GPS Data Is Added?
Saving a location writes the standard GPS fields defined by the EXIF specification:
- ✓GPS Latitude + GPS Latitude Ref — the north–south coordinate, stored with its hemisphere reference (N or S).
- ✓GPS Longitude + GPS Longitude Ref — the east–west coordinate, stored with its hemisphere reference (E or W).
- ✓GPS Map Datum — set to WGS-84, the global reference system used by GPS receivers and mainstream mapping services.
These are exactly the fields phones and photo platforms read when placing a photo on a map. Nothing else in the file is modified.
Does Geotagging Change the Photo?
It changes the file, not the picture. Geotagging writes GPS data into the EXIF metadata: the visible image stays exactly as it was — no text, badge, map or timestamp is drawn on the photo.
Geotag (this tool):
GPS coordinates are embedded invisibly in the EXIF metadata. The picture looks identical.
Visible GPS stamp:
The location, address or date is printed onto the image itself, so anyone who sees the photo can read it. That is a different job: it re-renders the picture.
If you actually want the place shown on the photo, that is the stamp tool — Add a visible GPS location stamp. Print the capture date on a photo.
Supported Photo Formats
JPEG / JPG photos are fully supported. JPEG stores metadata in a header block that can be replaced without touching the compressed image data, so reading and writing GPS EXIF is both reliable and lossless.
PNG, WebP and HEIC cannot be reliably geotagged here. PNG does define an optional EXIF chunk, but most photo apps and galleries ignore it, so a GPS tag written there is unreliable. HEIC is not decodable by most browsers, and rewriting WebP would require a re-encode that costs quality. The tool tells you clearly when a file is not a supported JPEG instead of failing silently — convert it to JPEG first, then geotag it.
Privacy
Geotagging happens locally in your browser. The photo is never uploaded to a server: reading the EXIF, picking the location, writing the GPS data and generating the download all run on your device, in memory.
GPS coordinates are sensitive — they reveal where you live, work and travel. Before publishing or sharing a photo, it is worth deciding deliberately whether it should carry its location. To share it without location, strip the GPS data first: Remove GPS and EXIF metadata.
How to Verify a Photo Geotag
The tool verifies itself: after saving, it re-reads the GPS fields from the generated file and only shows the success message when the embedded coordinates match the values you set. A download link appears only after that check passes.
You can verify independently too: drag the downloaded photo back into the tool above — or into any EXIF viewer — and the detected GPS position appears on the map and as latitude/longitude values. If the map jumps to your chosen spot, the geotag is correctly embedded in the file.
Geotag FAQ
- How to geotag a photo?
- Upload the photo to the tool above, choose a location on the map — or search for an address, type coordinates, or use your device location — then click "Save GPS Location to EXIF" and download the file. The coordinates are embedded in the photo's EXIF metadata.
- How do you geotag a photo online?
- Open this page, drop in a JPG, pick the location on the map and save. Everything runs in your browser: no account, no upload to a server, no software to install. The downloaded photo carries the new GPS location in its metadata.
- Can I geotag an existing photo?
- Yes — that is exactly what this tool does. It takes photos that already exist, from a camera, a scanner or a messaging app, and writes GPS coordinates into their EXIF metadata without altering the visible image.
- Can I change the GPS location already stored in a photo?
- Yes. When you upload a photo that has GPS data, the tool shows the stored coordinates and centres the map on them. Choosing a new location and saving overwrites the old GPS fields completely — the downloaded file only contains the new position.
- Does geotagging change how the photo looks?
- No. The GPS data is written into the file's metadata block, not onto the image. Resolution, colours, orientation and every visible pixel stay untouched, and no watermark or text is added.
- Can I geotag an old photo with no GPS data?
- Yes. Photos without any GPS metadata — scans, DSLR shots, images stripped by messaging apps — can be geotagged the same way: upload, pick a location, save. The tool creates the GPS EXIF fields for you.
- Will Google Photos recognize the new GPS location?
- The tool writes standard GPS EXIF fields, but individual photo services may handle metadata differently. Google Photos generally reads EXIF GPS on upload and shows the photo at that position; some services strip metadata for privacy. Check the result in the app you use.
- Are my photos uploaded to a server?
- No. The geotag tool runs entirely in your browser. The photo is read and modified in memory on your device and only leaves it when you save the download to your disk.
- Can I remove the GPS location later?
- Yes. If you want to share a photo without its location, use the Remove EXIF tool to delete the GPS data and other metadata first.