GPS camera

Archive New Product Ideas
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OK, this may sound a little wacky, but with the emergence of the SFE GPS Datalogger and the various cameras available here, it might not be too hard to do:

Create a device to stamp GPS data into the EXIF meta-data of a digital photo. This would be incredibly useful for adding real pictures to GPS points/routes in apps like Google Earth/Yahoo Maps/Windows Live Local, etc.

I think we’ll actually see the day where a vacation photolog that isn’t linked to maps with your comments and GPS route overlaid will seem quite old fashioned.

Would certainly be a boon for real estate agents. Click the picture with a WiFi enabled GPS camera and it gets instantly posted to a website for all to see, complete with neighborhood info and pictures of other nearby houses, sites, etc.

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Some of the really high end nikon digitals include a GPS module that geotags photos.

A guy at work uses the external flash shoe on his (lower end) nikon to trigger a waypoint on his GPS receiver. He wrote a little tool that marries up photos with GPS coordinates based on the time the photo was taken.

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Ah ha! Proof there is demand for such a thing! Maybe once the camera hackers finish REing the little camera SF carries, this will be a good little project.