How do I find the correct coordinates to enter?

Right-click the spot on Google Maps and copy the latitude/longitude from the context menu. Paste them into the coordinate fields and click Apply, or drag the marker on the editor's map to the right place — the values update automatically.

Geo Tag Editor — Change or Fix GPS Coordinates in a Photo

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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. The most common reasons coordinates end up off:

Indoor and urban canyon shots. Walls and tall buildings 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 JPEGs that have no GPS data at all.
Geotag photos online — for tagging a batch of photos from the same location.
Remove geotag from a photo — for stripping GPS for privacy before sharing.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Geo Tag Editor — Fix or Change a Photo's GPS Coordinates

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