Free Geo Tag Editor for JPEG Photos

Use our free geo tag editor to add, edit, or remove GPS coordinates from JPEG photos in seconds. It is helpful for photographers, real estate teams, and small businesses that want their images to reflect the correct place without uploading anything. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your images stay private and your workflow stays simple.

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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.

1

Upload your JPEG

Drag and drop, or tap to select a JPEG photo from your phone or computer.

2

Pin the location on the map

Drag the marker on the interactive map, or paste exact latitude and longitude values.

3

Download the updated photo

Save the corrected JPEG to your device. The original file stays untouched.

100% private - your photos never leave your browser. No upload, no server, no tracking.

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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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes - the Geo Tag Editor is 100% free to use, with no signup, no account, and no hidden limits. You can edit as many photos as you want. The tool runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript, so we don't pay for server processing and don't need to charge you for it.
No. Your photos never leave your browser. All EXIF reading, GPS editing, and re-saving happens locally on your device - nothing is uploaded, nothing is logged, and nothing is stored on our servers. You can verify this by opening your browser's Network tab while you use the tool: there are no image uploads.
Yes. The geo tagging editor works in any modern mobile browser - Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Samsung Internet - on both Android and iPhone. Tap to select a JPEG from your camera roll, drag the marker on the map, and download the updated photo to your device.
The geo editor supports JPEG / JPG photos (the format most phone cameras and DSLRs use by default). HEIC, PNG, RAW, and WebP files are not supported because the EXIF GPS standard is built around JPEG. If your photo is HEIC or PNG, convert it to JPEG first using a free online converter, then come back here to add or edit the GPS coordinates.
The easiest way is to right-click the spot on Google Maps and copy the latitude/longitude that appears in the context menu. Paste those numbers into the coordinate fields and click Apply. Alternatively, drag the marker on this page's map to the right place - the values update automatically.
No. The original file is never modified. The corrected version is offered as a new download - you choose where to save it. If you want to keep both versions, just save the download to a different folder.
No. Only the GPS sub-block of the EXIF is rewritten. Camera model, lens, exposure settings, capture date and time, and any other EXIF tags are preserved exactly as they were in the source file.
This editor focuses on latitude and longitude. Altitude is recorded as a separate EXIF tag and isn't editable in the on-page form; for altitude-specific fixes a desktop tool like ExifTool gives you per-tag control.
This page is the editing workflow - it assumes the photo already has GPS values that need correcting. If the photo has no GPS at all, the add GPS page is simpler. For batches, see geotag photos online. To strip GPS for privacy, use remove geotag.

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