The next hot thing of Digital Photography :: Geotagging
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 |The days of low megapixel cameras seem to be behind us. Buying a very good digital camera nowadays is not too hard, nor it is much of a hit on a wallet. You do not even need to spend thousands on those Digital SLR cameras to get high quality images like the pros do; Nikon D40, D40x and the newly announced Nikon D60 are all in under-a-grand range.
So what’s next? Megapixels are abundant, most cameras, even smaller point-and-shoot ones, have good optics these days. The keyword of the year, at least among those who like to take a lot of pictures, will be Geotagging!
Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude, bearing, and place names.
In plain English, you take pictures as you usually do, you come home, upload them to your computer, but besides just having the pictures - you can now have locations associated with each picture. This makes it awesome since you can view your pictures on the map and see exactly where you’ve been. There are services and sites on-line, like Flickr.com, which let you upload your pictures and browse them in this cool and innovative way. But how do you geotag?
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