Export Orthomosaic as JPG - No location data?

[ashalota]

I am using Photoscan 1.2.

When I export an orthomosaic as TIFF (any compression), I am able to load the resulting files into a GIS with location data perfectly.

However, if I try with JPG, there is no location data associated. I also see there is no location data in the exifdata for the JPG either.

I can use the "create KML" option to get a kml for each jpg image which I can then use to locate the JPG, but I really want to have the data included with the JPG as soon as I export.

Is this possible? What am I missing here??

I want to use JPG format because the file size is so much smaller and still looks great compared to even the JPG-compressed TIFF files.

[ashalota]

Agisoft support team informed me that JPG generally cannot hold location data. Darn.

[Packy_GIS]

You have to check the option "write world file" - it will create the *.jgw file, that holds the georeferencing information:
Cell size in X
Rotation
Rotation
Celly size in Y

You must have the *.jpg and *.jgw in the same folder

Jan

[rossnixon]

ECW can hold location data, and is maybe half the size of a jpeg, with similar quality.
I'm not sure of the best way to get the data in from a worldfile though.

[Packy_GIS]

The "world file" is a widely used standard for georeferenced rasters (JPGs, GIFs and even TIFFs) in many GIS softwares (ie ArcGIS).
So far I prefer the TIFF format, as I can export "large tiff" and I am not limited with the maximum size of a JPG. The last time, I was exporting a 101GB TIFF orthophoto The size of the tiff is bigger but if you then use this big file in ArcGIS (in my case) the work with such large dataset is much faster.

Jan