Free Online Geo Tag Editor

How the Geo Tag Editor Works in 3 Steps

No signup. No upload. Works straight in your browser on phone or desktop.

Built for local businesses, property listings, and any photo that needs an accurate GPS coordinate in its metadata.

Why a Photo's GPS Is Often Wrong

A camera's GPS reading is a best guess, not a measurement. The accuracy depends on how good the satellite fix was at the moment the shutter fired, and that's affected by a long list of things you have no control over at the time. When coordinates end up off, an online gps photo editor can be a lifesaver. Here are the most common reasons coordinates end up off:

• Indoor and urban canyon shots. Walls and tall buildings near Main Street shops, the riverfront bridge, or the market hall can block satellite signals; the phone falls back to Wi-Fi or cell-tower triangulation, which can be off by 50–500 metres.
• Cold-start GPS. If the phone hasn't had a fix recently, the first photo of the session may use the last known location instead of the current one.
• Assisted GPS errors. Some phones write a coordinate before they've actually locked on, leaving early shots from a trip tagged at home or at the airport.
• Time-zone and clock drift. If the camera's clock is wrong, a tracker-based geotagging workflow (matching photos to a GPX log) snaps to the wrong point on the route.
• Imported tags from other software. Some apps round coordinates aggressively or apply them at the album level, leaving every photo at a single approximate point.

How the Editor Handles Existing GPS

When you drop a JPEG into the tool, it reads the file's EXIF segment and looks for the GPS IFD. If coordinates are present, the latitude and longitude inputs are pre-filled with the existing values and the map marker is placed at that point. From there you have three options:

• Drag the marker to the correct location, then click Apply. The new coordinates overwrite the old GPS values; the rest of the EXIF (camera, lens, timestamp) is left intact.
• Type new latitude/longitude directly - useful if you have the precise coordinates from another source (a survey, a Google Maps pin, a GPX waypoint).
• Remove the GPS block entirely with the Remove Geotag button if the original is wrong but you don't have a correct value to replace it with.

The image pixels are not touched. The output JPEG has the same resolution and visual quality as the input - only the GPS bytes in the metadata are rewritten.

Useful Companion Pages

• Add GPS to a photo - For JPEG images that have no location data at all.
• Remove geotag from a photo - Instantly strip all GPS coordinates from your photos before sharing online.

Frequently Asked Questions