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GeoTagger Adds Positioning Info to Snapshots
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CmdrTaco
on Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:45 AM
from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.
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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Slashvert (Score:4, Insightful)
All that's missing (Score:2, Insightful)
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-horizontal angle mentioned by you
-altitude
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5 numbers at a minimum: latitude, longitude, vertical and horizontal angles and altitude.
Multiple alternatives (Score:5, Informative)
Flickr Adds Geotagging [slashgeo.org]
Geotagged Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth [slashgeo.org]
Picasa Photos in Google Earth [slashgeo.org]
and the most important one:
Info on Geocoding Photos [slashgeo.org] 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 [slashgeo.org] to geotag your photos directly.
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Anyway, I havent probed all of the possibilities yet, but I'm sure there's a service where you can upload your JPEGs to a site which will automatically place them on a googl
There is a fatal flaw with the product. (Score:4, Funny)
There is a fatal flaw in your post. (Score:2)
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GoogleEarth? (Score:2)
Open Source Alterative (Score:3, Informative)
This was meant to be a free simple application that you can just run on all your photos and I think it is just that. No bells, no whistles. It just gets exif data added to all the photos you just took in a quick easy manor.
You can download GeoPhoto Batcher with source code from: http://moesphoto.glacialwanderer.com/ [glacialwanderer.com]
GPS track to tags (Score:2)
How does it deal with photos that are taken at a time between GPS waypoints? I assume that the 'track files' produced by the GPS are a series of fixed positions and timestamps; e.g. x1,y1,z1,t1;x2,y2,z2,t2, where delta-t varies depending on the resolution you have the GPS recording at. What happens if you take a photo at t1.5? Does it pick the nearest timestamp, or does it interpolate a vector between the two points and estimate one's position at the time? Seems like it could be s
Don't need extra equipment (Score:5, Informative)
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Are there any specific pieces of software that will take the GPS' tracklog GPX and sync it with the EXIF data or is it more a manual thing?
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Oh, honestly (Score:2)
Free GeoTagger SW and Sony Does it Too (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.i4u.com/article6502.html [i4u.com]
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 [i4u.com]
GPS and photos taken inside + RoboGEO required (Score:3, Informative)
Additionnaly, most of the work is done by RoboGeo [slashgeo.org], which must be purchased seperately.
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Inconvenient without a flash shoe (Score:3, Insightful)
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here are some examples:
a Canon one [ebay.com]
or
a Nikon one [ebay.com]
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Convenient with a film slr ! (Score:2)
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OK, here's your first task: (Score:2)
In other news today, new camera given to Bin Laden (Score:2)
Excellent! Wish comes true (Score:2)
Friends don't let friends buy Sony (Score:2)
Ricoh cameras (Score:2)
Re:Practical uses? (Score:5, Interesting)
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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EXIF
Most of the information is both innocuous and helpful (at least to other photographers). You can disable things like camera serial number and all
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As far as geotagging, it gives you the flexibility to organize your photos by location, and add in that info to your photo. I went on a month long
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Is this really that useful for the public in general...?
Of course -- wives can find out where their cheating husbands are taking the naughty pictures they find on their home computer, anyone can determine where the picture someone posted on an on-line dating service was taken (she says she's in Pocatello, ID, but all her pictures are from Bozeman, MT!), etc. A multitude of uses in the home!
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You're thinking of Exif data [wikipedia.org]. It contains information regarding a specific image: the camera model, the date and time of the photo and all sorts of potentially useful photographic details -- the ISO, aperture used, shutter speed, focal length, etc.
This can be extremely useful stuff if you're
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Well, I'm wondering about that right now. I sell images online [gdargaud.net] and I'm in the process of editing two new CD compilations. The difference with before is that I now use digital which records the instant the image was taken. I'm not absolutely sure I want people to know exactly where I was every day of my life (or every day I use a camera). It's one thing to have your images made public, another one to have your whereabouts made pu
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Well, I dunno if that is exactly true. I'd heard of the EXIF tag (thanks for reminding me of what it was), and on this post this person went in to examine the contents...and whatever application they were using...was adding full name and other info they'd used to register the photo application they were using.
This is what caught my attention. Kind of like how MS imbeds information into word .doc f
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The other major purpose of this is for historical benefit. Imagine, for example, that we had Geotagging+Timestamping on all the photos taken in the last 30 years, and they were shared on something like Flickr. You could focus on a particular place and build a timeline of photos to see how it changes over the years. Given the ubiquity of camera phones, digital cameras, etc, we could have a complete photo-historical record of, well, almost everything.
Personally, I've gone through all my "good" photo
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Don't know about everyone else, but it would be a godsend for some architects. Many progressive architecture and/or exterior design firms are taking photos of an existing site and superimposing a 3D modelled rendering of the finished building or renovations over the site. In order for the modeller and/or renderer to get the p
Is there an 'azimuth' field? (Score:2)
My question is, does the EXIF specification have a place for an "azimuth" variable? I know it has Lat/Lon and time, but azimuth is really the key if you want to be able to reconstruct a model of a place. You need to at least know where the camera was and where it was pointing. Granted, most GPS units won't give you this information (a few that have magnetic compasses might) but it would be good to at least have the p
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Do any GPS units record zenith as well as azimuth, or do need to rig up some sort of sextant on the head of my tripod and log that information manually?
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With all that information in hand, it would be possible to collect, say, thousands of photographs from different sources and stitch together a 3-d Google Earth-esque 3d map of the world from human perspective.
With error correcting techniques, you could eliminate the problems of p
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-> You can now have software track the route you took while on vacation as you snapped pictures
-> If you find a camera, you can now track the route the previous owner took before losing their new camera, and know exactly where their house is with the nifty bigscreen tv (in the background of a shot taken at home for example)
-> If you find a corpse next to the road with one of these cameras, you can tell if they were standing in the road taking pictures when they got hit or if the
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GPS doesn't have nearly the resolution that would be required for that. Plus, if the shot was taken at 3:15:30, and the time of death was 3:15:45, you don't know where the photographer moved in those fifteen seconds. More likely, though, you'll have a time of death of 'a little after 3PM' or 'between tw
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A little more practical and mundane than that: think traffic accidents, speeding tickets.
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