Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates

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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The new Nikon D2x supports this natively

[neile]

It's almost enough to make me give up my Canon. Almost, except for all those pesky Canon lenses I have... :)

"External GPS units that adhere to the NMEA 0183 specification are supported (the new MC-35 adapter cable, which connects to the 10-pin remote port on the camera and provides both an RS-232 serial port and 10-pin remote port, is required); latitude, longitude and altitude can be stored in a photo's metadata. The D2X's date and time can also be set automatically when a GPS unit is connected"

Full walkthrough of the new features in the D2x at http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?ci d=7-6459-7204-7205.

Neil

Some GPS resources

[SlideGuitar]

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.