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How to add GeoTIFF tags into EXIF image data in Python?

I wrote a script that gets an image as input and then convert it to tiff format. Now I need to add some GeoTIFF tags into the EXIF image data (e.g. pixel size, coordinates, etc) so I could work with this image in QGIS.

If Python doens't have any lib that can handle this I could migrate this script to C++. Anny suggestion?

Solution

  • You need use gdal library.

    import gdal

gdal.AllRegister()

inputImagePath = "your geotiff"
inputdataset = gdal.Open(inputImagePath)

inputdataset.SetMetadataItem("TEST","TEST METADATA")

inputdataset = None

    this code add a metadata item "TEST" in the image.