Geo Tags Editor is a complete, browser-based GPS metadata toolkit. Add coordinates, edit existing geotags, remove location data for privacy, and inspect full EXIF — all without installing software, signing up, or uploading a single image.
Most online geotagging tools force you to choose between power and privacy. Either you get a stripped-down web app that can only show coordinates, or you get a full desktop program that takes hours to learn and costs money. Geo Tags Editor is built around a different principle: every feature you would expect from professional EXIF software, delivered through a clean web interface that processes your photos locally on your device.
Below is a complete breakdown of what the editor can do, who each feature is built for, and how it compares to the alternatives. If you're new to photo metadata, the EXIF Data Ultimate Guide and What is Geotagging? articles are good companion reads.
Embed precise latitude and longitude into any JPEG that doesn't have location data — scanned photos, studio shots, drone exports, or images from cameras without GPS.
Open any geotagged photo, see its current coordinates, and overwrite them with corrected values. Perfect for fixing GPS drift or relocating photos in your library.
Use the built-in OpenStreetMap to pinpoint any location on Earth. Click, drag the marker, or search — coordinates fill in automatically.
Strip every byte of GPS data from a photo before posting it online. Protect your home address, travel patterns, and personal locations.
Inspect every EXIF tag in your image: camera make and model, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, lens, date taken, image dimensions, and full GPS coordinates.
Upload multiple photos at once and apply the same GPS coordinates — or strip GPS from all of them — in a single action. Built for real workflows.
All processing happens inside your browser using JavaScript. Your photos are never uploaded to any server, never logged, and never stored.
No account, no email, no watermark, no subscription. Open the page, use the tool, download your photo. That's it.
Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone, and iPad. Anything with a modern browser becomes a full GPS photo editor.
Adding GPS data to a photograph is one of the most common tasks Geo Tags Editor handles. The need shows up in dozens of situations: a real estate agent has interior shots from a DSLR without GPS, a small business owner has product photos taken in a studio, a journalist needs to attach a verified location to a freelance image, or a hobbyist photographer wants to back-fill missing locations on scanned film negatives.
In each case, the workflow is identical and takes under a minute. Drop your JPEG into the upload area, type the latitude and longitude into the coordinate fields (or pick the spot on the map), then click Apply Coordinates. The editor writes new GPS tags into the EXIF block of the file and gives you back a fresh JPEG that's pixel-identical to the original — only the metadata has changed.
If you want a deeper walkthrough with screenshots, the Add GPS to Photo Ultimate Guide covers every option in detail, including how to convert addresses to coordinates and how to verify your geotag worked correctly.
Editing existing geotags is the second most common workflow, and it's something most online tools simply cannot do. When you upload a photo that already has GPS metadata, Geo Tags Editor automatically reads the existing latitude and longitude, displays them in the coordinate fields, and drops a marker on the map at that exact spot. You can then nudge the marker, type new values, or completely replace the location.
This matters for photographers whose camera GPS drifted, travelers whose phone reported the wrong city, or anyone migrating an old photo library where decades-old location data needs to be cleaned up. The full step-by-step process is documented in How to Change Photo Location and GPS Coordinates.
The privacy use case is just as important as the SEO use case. Photos uploaded to forums, marketplaces, dating apps, classified ads, and many social networks can leak your home coordinates, the street where your child's school is, or the gym you visit every morning. Removing geotags before sharing is one of the simplest, highest-impact privacy habits anyone can build.
Geo Tags Editor offers a one-click Remove Geotag action that strips the GPS IFD from your image while leaving all other EXIF (camera settings, dates, dimensions) intact. If you want to remove every trace of metadata, see How to Remove Metadata from Images. For a privacy-focused walkthrough, read the GPS Photo Privacy Protection Guide.
Typing latitude and longitude is fine when you have the numbers in front of you, but most people think in places, not coordinates. The built-in map picker lets you find a location visually: scroll, zoom, and click anywhere on Earth — the coordinates auto-fill in the form. You can also drag the existing marker to fine-tune the position street-by-street.
Map data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, the world's largest open-source mapping project. Tiles load directly from OpenStreetMap servers and are not proxied through Geo Tags Editor, so the editor itself never even sees the location you're picking.
Beyond GPS, every JPEG carries a wealth of metadata: the camera and lens model, ISO and shutter speed, the date and time of capture, color profile, image orientation, and more. Geo Tags Editor displays all of this in a clean, readable table the moment you upload an image. Use it to verify that an edit actually changed the right tags, to recover the original capture date when a file's modification time is wrong, or simply to inspect a photo's history.
If you want to understand the difference between EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata, the EXIF vs Metadata explainer covers it in plain language.
Editing one photo at a time is fine for casual use, but real workflows involve dozens or hundreds of images. Geo Tags Editor lets you upload multiple JPEGs together and apply the same GPS coordinates to all of them — perfect for a real estate agent geotagging an entire property shoot to the listing address, or a local business owner tagging every product photo with the storefront location.
Batch removal works the same way: drop in a folder of vacation photos and strip GPS from every one of them in a single click before posting. No retries, no re-uploads, no waiting on a slow server.
This is the feature that matters most. Almost every other "online" GPS editor uploads your image to a remote server, processes it there, and sends the result back. That means a stranger's machine has had a copy of your photo, your location, your camera details, and the original capture timestamp.
Geo Tags Editor does not work that way. The editor is a static page plus JavaScript. When you upload a file, the browser reads it locally, the JavaScript edits the EXIF bytes locally, and the download you receive is generated locally. There is no upload endpoint. There is no log file. There is no cookie that records which images you opened. You can confirm this yourself by opening your browser's network inspector while you use the tool — you'll see no image traffic leaving your device.
The feature set is intentionally broad because the user base is broad:
There are roughly three categories of GPS metadata tools, and each has trade-offs:
Geo Tags Editor sits in a fourth category: a browser-based tool that combines desktop-grade editing power with the privacy of a fully offline workflow. For a longer comparison, see Best GPS Photo Editing Software Comparison 2026.
The editor runs on every modern browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, Brave, and most Chromium derivatives. Because all processing is JavaScript-based, it works identically on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS. There's no separate mobile app to install — open the website, drop in a photo, edit, and download.
Performance scales with your device. Editing a single image is instant on any phone. Batch processing of 50+ high-resolution photos runs comfortably on a mid-range laptop in under a minute.