Maybe I've been sleeping under a rock for a while or something, but I just noticed a new feature on flickr when going through my old photos to add some tags and descriptions. Apparently it is now possible to tag each photo with a latitude and longitude (either you could record this from your GPS, or just use the obviously Google Maps inspired UI to find the location after the fact). This is pretty cool because you can then look at a map of all your photos and see where they all are throughout the world.
So far I just tagged a couple photos from my recent Angel Island trip... the main problem I see with this is that it's a bit labor intensive to go back through a thousand photos and try to reconstruct where they were all taken... perhaps we need some way for a camera and GPS to communicate over BlueTooth and store this data in the image file. Or, better yet, have some sort of combined device that was both a GPS and a camera that could automatically geotag your photos for you.
Singapore Zoo
7 years ago
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I just realized you can add the location in Flickr's Organize. Sweet! I just Googled "gps camera" and it looks like there may be some gps cameras already available. Not sure whether the gps data goes in with the jpg data or not though.
Speaking about "geotagging": do you know locr?
locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don't know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.
For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.
Use the "Show in Google Earth" button to view your photos in Google Earth.
With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.
Have a look at www.locr.com.
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