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How to 'Geotag' Your Photos

by Will Safer on May 19, 2008 at 10:39 AM



Taking pictures with digital still cameras has been popular for years. Now GPS devices are the johnny-come-lately of the tech you cool kids want. So what happens when you combine the two capabilities? Why, geotagging your photos, of course!

Geotagging is the process of marking on each digital photograph the geographical location of where you took the shot. This information can be used to enhance how you review pictures from a vacation, maybe viewing them on a map online or comparing them to pictures taken by other people who have similarly geotagged their shots. It can be both fun and informative.

One easy way to geotag your photos is to use a new SD memory card introduced by Eye-Fi (read our post on this announcement here). This SD card automatically detects where you are and writes this information into the image file as you take a picture. Ingenious, we say!

We also liked learning how Flickr, the online photo-sharing site, lets you drag and drop your photos onto an online map to identify where they were taken. (We'll admit we could spend hours doing this.)

And these were just two of the easy methods. Read the whole article for more. [Source Wired]

Tags: camera, eye-fi, Flickr, geotagging, gps, how-to, photos, summeradvice

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