Windows Essentials

Windows Photo Gallery Automatic GPS Geotagging/Reverse Geocoding Not Working

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Archived post from April 3, 2014. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Apr 3, 2014

Windows Photo Gallery is not using the GPS data from my photos to create geotags.   Attached is a screenshot from Photo Gallery -- I took the photo using my iPhone 5.   Location Services were set to "on," and as you can see (lower right-hand side), the phone recorded latitude and longitude information.  However, when I imported the photo, Photo Gallery did not convert the latitude and longitude coordinates into a geotag (upper right-hand side).   The coordinates are not in some strange location; they are in downtown Los Angeles--at the very least, Photo Gallery should have used the geotag "Los Angeles."  I have similar photos from a trip to Vietnam that include latitude/longitude/GPS coordinates, but which Photo GAllery has not converted to geotags.   How can I get Photo Gallery to use the latitude/longitude information to create geotags?

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