The Gorse Fox has always felt that it would be useful to have a GPS chip in a camera so that it can store the location at which each photo was taken. No doubt the most expensive cameras have such a feature.
There are several "post-production" alternatives to this, and two that the Gorse Fox likes are:
- Picasa & GoogleEarth allows a photo in Picasa to be tagged by selecting the exact location from the Google Earth map. This saves the Lat/Long coordinates in the EXIF information for the photo in your Picasa library.
- Flickr has a newish feature in its Organizer that lets you drag and drop photos onto a map, thus storing some metadata containing the Lat/Long of the photo.
As an interface the Flickr feature is superb, and pretty quick... but does assume that you have all your photos on Flickr, and the maps do not seem quite as up-to-date as Google's. What GF would really like is the drag and drop interface in Picasa so that he can store the details in his master repository... as the existing interface seems slow and clunky in comparison.
If you wish to find out what else is out there GF recommends
The Map Room
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