karlchu / test_picture_location

Simple python script to test whether a picture was taken near a GPS location.

test_picture_location

This is a simple python script that uses exiftool to read the GPS location from an image file and test if it is near a given location within a given radius.

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7
• exiftool available on the path.

Usage

$ ./test_picture_location.py <image_file_path> <latitude> <longitude> <radius>

Where...

• image_file_path -- Path to the file which location you want to test.
• latitude -- Latitude of the target location in decimal format (e.g. -37.1234567)
• longitude -- Longitude of the target location in decimal format (e.g. 145.7654321)
• radius -- The radius from the target location. If the image file was taken within this radius, the file is considered a match.

If the file matches, it outputs the path of the file to stdout, and the script exits with a 0 exit code.

If the file does not match, nothing is output to stdout, and the script exits with a non-zero exit code.

Example #1

The following command tests if IMG_1234.JPG was taken within one kilometer of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne Australia.

$ ./test_picture_location.py ~/Picture/IMG_1234.JPG -37.821638 144.9645348 1

Example #2

The following command finds all the JPEG pictures in the Pictures folder that were taken within one kilometer of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne Australia.

find ~/Pictures -iname '*.jpg' -exec ./test_picture_location.py {} -37.821638 144.9645348 1 \;