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For DSLR users, I think Sony, Nikon and Canon all produce devices that can do this.

There are others options too - many PDA's have this capability, e.g. the iMate JAMin or the eten g500. Some mobile phones with location based services also provide this facility, although the accuracy depends on the location technology used (might not be that important for holiday snapshots?)

I agree though - with the cost of GPS these days, it should be a standard feature on pretty much all digital cameras - or at least implement bluetooth / usb connectivity to an external GPS receiver.

You know what I see it useful in? A camera, so that it could automatically add the location to the EXIF data of each photo taken. I would think Google and Apple would be all over that kind of thing, since it would have really cool possibilities for iPhoto and Google Image Search. Too bad neither of them makes cameras...

Geotagging would work better if cameras had GPS recievers built-in, or used a GPS equipped phone linked via bluetooth.

Why not use one? :)

I've gotten to play with them a bit. The cameras that support the GPS cards are nothing too amazing. But we are usually using them for geology field work and such to help locate where our pictures were taken when trudging through endless stretches of desert.

That (GPS coordinates of photos I take) is by far at the top of the list of things I miss in a camera (especially now that I finally got to buy a camera I'm satisfied with, an EOS 350D).

Such things apparently do exist, e.g. see http://www.geospatialexperts.com/, but alas, it's not wide-spread enough.

Maybe now that the GPS technology is getting more and more exposure, and maybe with the competition picking up from the European Union initiative, we'll see it in the nearer future?

These people are selling a GPS camera. It's not a phone, but it can send pictures with GPS data to your computer via bluetooth, WiFi, etc. I really hope more people jump on the bandwagon; it's a really cool bit of technology IMHO.

This isn't my web site but I wish it were:
http://www.geosnapper.com/

There exist Japan only (not ever marketed in the US) point and shoot cameras that already record GPS data directly. (Rioch... and some other brand I haven't heard of.)

And of course various Nikon pro models have this capacity, such as that used here:

http://www.californiacoastline.org/

In the same vein, check out:
http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/shorephotos/index.html

I haven't evaluated this: http://www.robogeo.com/home/

But I do own this, and it works well, as advertised to get a GPS read for each time at which you take a picture: http://www.geospatialexperts.com/

At the above location, they happen to sell the Ricoh model that can record GPS out of the box.

Here's "your" idea " http://www.geospatialexperts.com/

Screw M$. If you have a GPS and a digital camera, you can make your own site using GPS Photo Link.gpsphotolink I've used it on numerous ocassions and it works like a charm. It uses the time stamp on your digital photos to relate to the nearest waypoint or position in your GPS tracklog to generate GIS data for your photo points. It then creates HTML that links your photos to map graphics of your location.
Check out the sample sites at SAMPLES

Screw M$. If you have a GPS and a digital camera, you can make your own site using GPS Photo Link.gpsphotolink I've used it on numerous ocassions and it works like a charm. It uses the time stamp on your digital photos to relate to the nearest waypoint or position in your GPS tracklog to generate GIS data for your photo points. It then creates HTML that links your photos to map graphics of your location.
Check out the sample sites at SAMPLES