Below is an example code of how to extract this information.
The following code opens the image file with PIL.Image.open , then read the info with ._getexif(), naming and extracting the proper information with the functions TAGS and GPSTAGS.
The following code also includes a simple function for converting the degres minutes seconds format to decimal degrees.
from PIL import Image
import PIL.Image
from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS, GPSTAGS
def get_exif_data(image):
"""Returns a dictionary from the exif data of an PIL Image item. Also converts the GPS Tags"""
exif_data = {}
info = image._getexif()
if info:
for tag, value in info.items():
decoded = TAGS.get(tag, tag)
if decoded == "GPSInfo":
gps_data = {}
for t in value:
sub_decoded = GPSTAGS.get(t, t)
gps_data[sub_decoded] = value[t]
exif_data[decoded] = gps_data
else:
exif_data[decoded] = value
return exif_data
def _get_if_exist(data, key):
if key in data:
return data[key]
return None
def _convert_to_degress(value):
"""Helper function to convert the GPS coordinates stored in the EXIF to degress in float format"""
d0 = value[0][0]
d1 = value[0][1]
d = float(d0) / float(d1)
m0 = value[1][0]
m1 = value[1][1]
m = float(m0) / float(m1)
s0 = value[2][0]
s1 = value[2][1]
s = float(s0) / float(s1)
return d + (m / 60.0) + (s / 3600.0)
def get_lat_lon(exif_data):
"""Returns the latitude and longitude, if available, from the provided exif_data (obtained through get_exif_data above)"""
lat = None
lon = None
if "GPSInfo" in exif_data:
gps_info = exif_data["GPSInfo"]
gps_latitude = _get_if_exist(gps_info, "GPSLatitude")
gps_latitude_ref = _get_if_exist(gps_info, 'GPSLatitudeRef')
gps_longitude = _get_if_exist(gps_info, 'GPSLongitude')
gps_longitude_ref = _get_if_exist(gps_info, 'GPSLongitudeRef')
if gps_latitude and gps_latitude_ref and gps_longitude and gps_longitude_ref:
lat = _convert_to_degress(gps_latitude)
if gps_latitude_ref != "N":
lat = 0 - lat
lon = _convert_to_degress(gps_longitude)
if gps_longitude_ref != "E":
lon = 0 - lon
return lat, lon
###EXAMPLE CODE
filename = '//path//to//image.jpg'
image = PIL.Image.open(filename)
exif_data = get_exif_data(image)
latlong = get_lat_lon(exif_data)
