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5 CommentsDoes anyone else geotag their photographs?
In the past I have done it - I used to take a GPS with me on cycling days out and it would record a tracklog - you could then match this up using the time with the time your photos were taken and work out where each photo was taken and stamp it accordingly.
I've also manually added some photos on to the right place on Flickr using it's tools, but that's difficult because most of the bits of the UK I'm interesting it have really crap maps.
So, the other day I got a little GPS tracker thing that I can just chuck in my camera bag and it records a tracklog.
This is a screenshot of my walk around Clumber Park earlier today - all of those little markers are where I took photos...
It'll be nice when mainstream cameras have this kind of thing built in by default.
Ozone42
Written Nov. 17, 2007 / Report /
I've only done it using tools like flickr (and google earth.)
Haven't picked up a gps yet, though they are rather tempting, especially the handheld units with maps!
publicenergy
Written Nov. 17, 2007 / Report /
Well, the one I've had for a few years is a Garmin eTrex and it is great for navigation but I didn't use it much for geotagging because it needed to be out with a clear view of the sky. The Gisteq Phototracker thing I've just got hold of doesn't have a display at all - it just records where you are - and it's very sensitive, so today while it was recording that track, it was actually sat in my shirt pocket. Obviously it's not much use for navigation though!
jchristopher
Written Nov. 18, 2007 / Report /
I really think it's a great idea -- but I never got into it simply because I know I'd forget to keep track of the exact points I took a shot. I think it will be great when many cameras begin embedding GPS chips which record the information right in the EXIF data, automating the whole process.
publicenergy
Written Jan. 20, 2008 / Report /
I noticed one of the things on show at CES was a little box with a GPS receiver inside it and a memory card slot. So, after a day out taking photos, you took your memory card out of the camea, popped it in to this device and it matched up the times and embedded the locations in to the EXIF data. So, no computer or software required to do it at all.
That's probably the next best thing to having it all built in to a camera.
ericastjohn
Written Feb. 11, 2008 / Report /
When I uploaded my pics to google Picasa.. it used the exif data to tag it on a map as it was.. I didn't have to manually enter it.