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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. Some GPS resources by SlideGuitar · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.