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Geotag job-site photos for contractors and field teams

Roofers, plumbers, electricians and landscapers photograph the work they do. Geotagr adds the job location and a clear description to each photo so a folder of images still makes sense months later and shows where the work was done.

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What you can do

Fix missing GPS

If a phone had location off, place photos on the map afterwards. If it was on, Geotagr reads the existing coordinates and shows them.

Service-area proof

Keep before-and-after photos with the town, region and country filled in alongside the coordinates.

Rename on export

Use a file-name pattern so downloads are easy to find, for example by job or by place.

Built for teams

Business plans add team workspaces with shared presets and pooled usage.

How it works

Add the photos from the job.
Search the site address or click the map.
Describe the work: title, description and keywords such as the service and town.
Write the tags and download the photos.

Good to know: Embedded metadata is not tamper-proof evidence. Anyone with the right tool can edit it, so keep your original files if you need them for records.

What to write for job photos

Title: the job, the stage and the place, for example "Before: roof repair, Oak Street" or "After: new patio, Hill Farm". Marking before, during and after in the title keeps pairs together when you sort or search later.

Description: what was done and with what, in a sentence or two: "Replaced 40 damaged slate tiles and new lead flashing around the chimney." This is the detail you will want when a customer calls back a year later.

Keywords: the service, the main materials, the town and your business name, such as "roof repair, slate, chimney flashing, Millbrook". Keep them to what the photo shows.

Business details: your business name, phone and website, written the same way every time, so a photo forwarded by a customer still says who did the work.

A worked example

A roofer comes back with thirty photos from three jobs. In Geotagr they add all thirty and work job by job: select the ten photos from the first job, search the address, check the pin is on the right building and write the shared description and keywords. Then they mark the before and after shots in their titles, write the tags, and move on to the next group.

If the phone's location was off for one job, nothing is lost: the photos are placed on the map by hand. If it was on, Geotagr shows the coordinates already in the files, which is a quick way to spot a photo that ended up in the wrong job folder. On plans with renaming, a file-name pattern with the city, title and a number keeps the downloads sorted by job.

Customer address or business address?

Decide what the photo is for. A photo that documents work at a customer's property is most useful with the location of that property. A photo for your own marketing, published where anyone can download it, may be better placed at neighbourhood or town level, or without a location, so you are not publishing a customer's home address. Ask the customer if you are unsure.

Photos of your workshop, yard or showroom belong at your business address. Avoid writing your business address into photos taken somewhere else just to make them look local; the coordinates should say where the photo was actually taken.

Common mistakes

Editing after tagging: some editing and collage apps save a new copy without the metadata, so add text or crop first and tag the final file. Sending photos through chat apps: most messaging apps remove metadata when they compress a photo, so share the tagged files as documents, email attachments or a cloud folder if the details matter. Treating tags as proof: metadata is easy to edit, so keep the untouched originals alongside the tagged copies.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use my phone to tag photos on site?

Geotagr runs in a mobile browser, so you can open it on your phone, add photos from your gallery and write the tags there.

Can I tag photos from many jobs at once?

Yes. Work in groups: select the photos from one job, set the location and text, write the tags, then move on to the next job.

My camera has no GPS. Can I still geotag the photos?

Yes. Search the job address or click the map and Geotagr writes those coordinates into the photos. On paid plans you can also match photos to a GPX track recorded on your phone.

Does writing tags change the photo itself?

For JPG files only the metadata is rewritten; the image data is kept as it is. HEIC, PNG and WebP photos are converted to JPG when you add them.

Are my photos uploaded to your servers?

No. Geotagr reads and writes photo metadata in your browser. The image files never leave your device; only account, quota and optional AI or place-search requests go to our servers.

Which file types can I use?

JPG, HEIC, PNG and WebP files can be opened. HEIC, PNG and WebP are converted and saved as JPG so the metadata is widely readable.

Try it on your own photos

No sign-up needed to start. Your photos stay on your device.

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