Project: retrofitting geotags to snaps

The ability to stamp user generated content with a location and time in space and then review it in context really fascinates me.

The i-gotU GPS tracker that I bought from Maplin (was £30 in the sale, but now £50) has been used to review train journeys, road trips and afternoon walks on Google Earth. But this weekend it worked just that little bit harder thanks to a neat bit of software.

GPS embedded into cameras is on its way so that photos are automatically geotagged at source with location information. If you’ve already got a camera it’s possible to retrofit geotag data. I stuck the i-gotU GPS in my camera case on Saturday when we took a trip up to Holy Island on the Northumberland coast.

Back home I downloaded the data from the i-gotU GPS and my photos, and then using a nifty little software application that matches time codes from the two devices was able to add geotags to the snaps.

Neat eh?

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