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GeoTagger Adds Positioning Info to Snapshots

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

Richard Jelbert writes "Check out this hardware device to geo-tag your photos to help share / manage your photos using Google maps. The Jelbert GeoTagger device records the latitude and longitude and compass direction of every photo you take. It connects to the camera flash shoe and stores the geo metadata on an SD memory card. Geotagging is becomeing more and more popular with sites like Flickr supporting geotagging via Google Earth interface. Hardware geotagers save you the effort of geo-tagging the images manually after taking the shot. The Sony geotagger is a great step forward but the Jelbert GeoTagger also records direction data."

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  1. Multiple alternatives by Lord+Satri · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are *many* alternatives. Read those stories:
    Flickr Adds Geotagging
    Geotagged Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth
    Picasa Photos in Google Earth
    and the most important one:
    Info on Geocoding Photos which links (in 'related links') to numerous other sources of info.

    Today, you can tag photos using Picasa and Google Earth, Yahoo! and Flickr, or other alternatives such as GPS hardware to geotag your photos directly.

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  2. There is a fatal flaw with the product. by Stavr0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a SONY.

  3. Re:Practical uses? by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Is this really that useful for the public in general, or is this more of a tool for the authorities to use to better locate and document crime scenes, if the picture was taken at one?

    I just heard the other day about some kind of 'mark' that digital cameras put on all images, that notate what type camera you have...and some of the programs put registration information on the images (name, etc).

    I'm not sure I want all that meta data on pictures I take...just a simple picture thank you.

    (I forgot the name of that tag..starts with an "E" I think.

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  4. Don't need extra equipment by Forthan+Red · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you already own a GPS, there are several software-only solutions to perform the same function. Just sync your camera's clock to the GPS clock, and turn on the GPS tracking function. The software will link up locations by matching the photo's time-stamp with the tracklog time-stamp.

  5. Free GeoTagger SW and Sony Does it Too by i4u · · Score: 4, Informative

    Grazer is now free The tool synchronizes GPS location information in GPX format and matches the timestamp of the location information with the timestamp on the EXIF header of your photos.
    http://www.i4u.com/article6502.html

    Sony has released a GPS Geotagger gadget: Using time and location recordings from Sony's GPS-CS1 GPS device and the time stamp from a Sony digital still camera or camcorder, you can plot your digital images to a map and pinpoint exactly where you've been.
    http://www.i4u.com/article6207.html