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Photos telling where they are taken...!

Now this is what I want: a camera software tagging photos with GPS data, making the photos able to tell where they were taken. Just like Mie!

On the site Tokyo Tidbits a girl named Mie posts photos from her cell phone. Her photos have an added spice: they are tagged with geospatial data. Huh, you say? GPS! The photos tell where they were taken by keeping coordinates as meta-data about the photo!

So cool. I am deeply, deeply envious. ;)

So this is what I want: a camera software for my Nokia 7650 that uses the GSM network to triangulate its position when snapping a photo with the built in camera, translates that position to GPS coordinates and stores the data in the photo.

Then I can shamelessly mimick the "location info"-link Mie has on her site. That would be really neat, using the phone camera to not only document tidbits of my everyday life but also being able to track how I move about using the photos as a trail of bread crumbs.

Wonder who I can bribe to create such a camera software for the Nokia 7650. ;)

Here is information about storing GPS data in JPEGs: http://www.danger-island.com/~dav/writeon/archives/000870.shtml

According to that post (if I understand it correctly), Mie is publishing her photos using a plugin to Movable Type. Must email and ask if the script is available, or if I can somehow have a look at it. Would be neat to be able to post to the Movable Type system as well as DynaMaster.

Posted by manne at June 6, 2003 01:30 AM | TrackBack

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