General

CellPicGPS is a program to assist the geotagging of photos shot with a cell phone. Most of the times cell phones keep information about the connected cells in the EXIF data which can be used to find the exact location where the photo was taken. However, if your cell phone has a GPS receiver it's much better to use these data.

Technical information

The program is written in the perl programming language. Apart from the standard perl modules, Image::ExifTool must also be installed in order to extract the information from the photo.

There are four fields that are used to retrieve the necessary information:

• Cell ID
• Location Area Code (LAC)
• Mobile Country Code (MCC)
• Mobile Network Code (MNC)

These are used together with a service that can provide correlation information to find the correct geographical coordinates. Currently the program supports the following services:

• Google JSON API
• Google maps hidden API
• OpenCellID

Usage

Usage: ./cellpicgps.pl [OPTION] <input>
Where: input is the input image.

Valid options are:
        -service srv   Select service to use for retrieving coordinates
        -listsrv       List all valid services and exit
        -gmaps         Dump a google maps url
        -help          This help
        -version       Output version and exit
        

I believe it's pretty self explanatory!

Download

Version 1.1 is available here.

License

The program is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.