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Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates

Posted by timothy on from the good-for-areas-51-through-67 dept.

ptorrone writes "As part of a camera mod project to make a low-cost aerial photography device we started finding other uses for the camera hack. This first part of this series is tagging photos with GPS coordinates by automating a camera and GPS unit, it's a DIY Black Box for now with interesting applications and other uses. Ideally, this may encourage the next EXIF data schema to support GPS and other information."

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  1. Great! by keiferb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now my insurance company will be able to take a picture of me when their little black box in my car senses I'm doing something illegal. Two shots that are both location and time stamped will provide exact proof of how fast I was going, nevermind the fact that there was a dead hooker in the back seat...

  2. Re:patent? by (54)T-Dub · · Score: 2, Funny

    There already is ... though they called it "float", don't ask me why.

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    "I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
  3. crime and porn by hugesmile · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've heard it stated that the porn industry drives a lot of technology and facilitates standards - GIFs and 900 numbers back in the 90's, Internet, file sharing, broadband (no pun intended), etc.

    The first thing I thought of when reading the article (I know.. I'm not supposed to read it before commenting...) was to imagine the chat-room housewife who doesn't realize that her camera is capturing her GPS coordinates as she does a strip show for the boys in a chatroom. Next thing you know, 100 local geeks converge on her house - "Is that your GPS in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

    Or the pervert who captures kiddie porn has inadvertantly given his location when he posts it on the web.

    It's a cool idea, and obviously could be spoofed to avoid such problems. I just don't look forward to the pop-ups on my camera telling me "Warning, your camera may be broadcasting your GPS coordinates".