Geotagging Expands Uses of Digital Images
Armed with such data, Higham didn’t have to search endless combinations of keywords and guess how photographers would describe images in captions. By zooming in on the map, he could easily find geotagged photos along the Via Alpina and gain a fresh perspective.
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Professional aerial photographer Allan Goldstein gave up selling archival images from the Chicago area years ago, finding specific photos too cumbersome to locate on demand. He started the business again in October after discovering he could simply tag each image with its GPS coordinates.
— via Wired News
Recent DSLR cameras support a GPS add-on device, used to incorporate the geodata into EXIF image data on the camera memory disk. It becomes as simple as “plug in the dongle and take pictures”, and anywhere you upload them will recognize the data. I’m glad that a dongle is required. Integrated GPS is prone to accidentally giving away location information.
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