Hey there,
Does anyone know how to keep the geotag info on the GoPro Fusion 360 Pictures after they get rendered?
I have the geotag turned on, and the pictures show the geotag icon, however, after they get rendered by the Fusion Studio, the geotag info disappear.
Hi @Ohioin360 ,
Good question. I’m moving your post to the Photography board, as I think you will receive more accurate answers there.
Cheers,
Marin
Thanks!
@Csaba any ideas?
@Ohioin360 I’ve never used the fusion. Do you have access to the pre stitched originals on the card? It’s relatively easy to copy and paste the exif data back into the image if it has been stripped out in lightroom or exif editor. I use a hero 5 and the GPS bonks fairly regularly (it was convinced I was in Kazakhstan for months) . I try to take an iphone shot to record the location as a backup. Sometimes you just have to wait for a firmware update with Gopro to fix the glitches.
Thank you for your reply.
I do have access to the pictures. And maybe can stitch em together on a different software. I will lose the convenience of just importing em already rendered straight from the Fusion. The Fusion use two memory cards. And even tho it’s possible just to take the pictures out, it’s not as straightforward as with the Hero 5 or 6. On the Fusion, you always get two files for the same shot. Like IM12365F and IM12365B
@AGarner wrote:
@Csaba any ideas?
Unfortunately I have no personal experience with GoPro Fusion, @AGarner . In that other thread, I could only add an advice generally valid for every 360 camera that’s not directly compatible with the SV App.
Oh I see, thanks anyway @Csaba ! 
@Ohioin360 It’s simpler than that, open the stitched image, select all, copy.
Then open the raw file for the location, resize to the same pixel dimension as the stitched result. Paste the stitched image, flatten and save… done.
you could do a save-as and rename, the important part is that you copy-paste the stitched image into a resized original and save or save-as from that original as that will carry the original gps info.
Bo
Hey @Ohioin360 ,
As you probably know already, the GoPro Fusion has two cameras which each write simultaneously to separate SD cards while recording. All the metadata is stored in the images captured by the front-facing camera. You can see this if you inspect the photos/videos in the “Fusion Front” camera when the Fusion is plugged in to your computer.
The earlier versions of the Fusion Studio desktop app did not copy GPS data from the front-facing image into the stitched image. As of Fusion Studio 1.1 (Feb 2018) this is sort of fixed, except that the precision of the GPS data is downgraded during stitching, so you still don’t get a track that’s optimal for something like Street View. If you are comfortable with command-line tools, you can try this bash script to resynchronize the stitched photos with the original front-facing photos. Then you can load all the photos into Street View by uploading to Google Photos and importing with the SV app.
In the case of video, all metadata is still stored inside the front-facing recordings, but it is encoded in a proprietary GoPro format called GPMF. Fusion Studio does not currently copy this metadata through to stitched videos at all. If you want to play with the raw data, a great place to start is the open-source gopro2gpx tool, which will take the GPMF track and output a GPX file which you can visualize on a map using many tools including Google My Maps. If you want to do the same thing with a collection of geotagged photos (instead of videos) then you can use exif2gpx instead.
Remember that all these tools are external projects and aren’t supported by Google, always back up your data first, etc. Have fun!
waiting to see gopro fusion 360 photos
I have a bunch on my street view profile
Can you explain how to use the bash script?
