Geotagging old photos with Google Maps and Street View

    You may have noticed that I started to share some photos from Crete, the beautiful (and largest) Greek island.

    In fact, these photos come from a travel we made almost 20 years ago! Need I specify that these photos were not geotagged at all? 😅

    The fact is I really want all photos I share to be geotagged[1], so they are shown on the georgous map view.

    So as I already did several times in the past, I used my memory of the places, and I wandered through the Google Maps 3D view and Street View photos to find their location.

    Just for the nice city of Chania, I found 79 exact locations[2], to the meter. 😍

    Screenshot of the Map module inside Adobe Lightroom, showing photo pins on a Google Map satellite view

    Screenshot of the Map module inside Adobe Lightroom, showing photo pins on a Google Map satellite view

    It took a few hours, I admit, but it was worth spending part of my vacation time on it!

    1. Unless they were taken in a private location I don't want to disclose, of course. ↩ī¸Ž

    2. I won't share all of them here, just a few, but I like to already have the locations in my Lightroom library, I might share more later. ↩ī¸Ž