I remember a few years ago there was talk of some freeware/shareware type facility that would allow a picture on my camera/laptop to talk to my GPS, so that details of the time and place when the photo was taken could be recorded somewhere on the picture details. I've googled unsucessfully, but as I don't know what I'm looking for that not surprising.
Have any of you snappers on here come across such a thing, and if so any clues as to where I can obtain a download?
Not that I've come across for generic GPS units.
Eye-Fi do a SD card that can figure out where it is, but it does it from wifi hotspots, not GPS, so no good in the countryside. There are some GPS-enabled cameras these days, I've also seen an unit for Nikon DSLRs that sits in the flash hotshoe and adds the geotags. Plus of course, the GPS-enabled smartphones will tend to tag their pics (the iPhone does, at least).
Without knowing what camera you have could not say if you can 'get them to talk'
If you take your GPS with you when taking photos you can add the coordinates to the photo later using software. You store the coordinates in the pictures EXIF data so try googling EXIF and GPS
The new Panny TZ10 has a GPS built in (I think). Not what you need now but might be help for future or others?
If you take your GPS with you when taking photos you can add the coordinates to the photo later using software. You store the coordinates in the pictures EXIF data so try googling EXIF and GPS
It's called Geotagging, there are a few different bits of software that do the same thing. Geotag springs to mind.
I use my camera's (g10/450d/iphone) with my Edge with no problems. Just make sure all the times are the same, otherwise the photo's will be in the wrong GPS position!
Ooh simon, you're full of useful stuff!
As cb sez, the Lumix TZ10 out this year will have built-in GPS to geotag photos as you take them.
Don't think he's looking for a new camera!
Just tried that gpicsync. Not bad at all. Many thanks for the tip sfb.
If you're using an MS operating system, you might also want to try Pro Photo Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/tools.aspx
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