GPS Tagging with your camera

Have you ever taken a photo and forgotten where you took it?

If you take lots of photos like me, sometimes places (and their photographs) run together.  There is a new way to marry photos and the GPS position where you took the photo.  Once you have these two (the photo and the GPS coordinates) in the same image file, you can use software that displays both your photo and a map of where unsecured loans it was taken.  This marrying of technology is called “geotagging photographs”.

When you “geotag” photos, you are adding the latitude, longitude, and altitude information into the image file.  It adds the data into something called the EXIF (exchangeable image file format) area of the image file.  You could enter the information in manually (using special software) after you upload the photos to your computer, but that’s way too much work for me.

Recent innovations add the GPS receiver right in the camera.  This does two things, it provides GPS locations for photos and automatically adds the data into the EXIF area (which saves quite a bad credit loans bit of headache).

Nikon has been the leader in creating cameras with the GPS receiver built in.  Cameras such as the Nikon Coolpix P6000 13.5MP Digital Camera automatically add the geo-tagging information to photos without added work.

Nikon P6000 Geotagging Camera

Other cameras new to the market such as the Samsung  CL65 (ST1000 in Europe / Australia) camera have with WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.  This technology looks to rival Nikon’s P6000.

Samsung CL65 (ST1000 in Europe / Australia)

There’s also a new twist on geotagging, the use of cell phone cameras with built in GPS units.  Some phones such as the iPhone and some Blackberry models already have this feature.  At the moment, you need a special application (app) that inserts the GPS coordinates into image file.

There is one more twist that just arrived, geotagging videos.  Some high end Sony camcorders have started geotagging videos including the Sony HDR-TG5V High Definition Handycam Camcorder with Built-in GPS Receiver and the Sony HDR-XR500V 120GB HDD High Definition Camcorder with Built-in GPS Receiver.

Sony HDR-TG5V High Def Geo-tagging Handycam Camcorder

Sony HDR-XR500V Camcorder with Built-in Geotagging

This is just another way that we can provide pinpoint locations for all of our images, whether they are still photos or videos.

As technology matures, many more cameras will have the geotagging capabilities built in.  Stay tuned to this site and I’ll be adding in information and reviews of the geotagging cameras that come on the market.