Step-by-step guides on adding GPS location coordinates to digital photos.
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Geotagging a photo means writing a latitude and longitude into the file itself. Here are the four steps, what the photo actually stores, and the one missing field that sends a correct coordinate to the wrong hemisphere.
Windows will show a photo's location but will not let you add one, and the Mac Photos app can accept a location that never reaches the exported file. Here is what each actually does, and the browser route that avoids both.
A first-party walkthrough that takes one photo from loaded to finished: the pin on the map, the copyright and licence fields most tutorials skip, batch tagging, and the check that confirms the location actually reached the file.