Geotagging Your Photos
I tested out GPS4cam while shooting this old barn today. GPS4cam is a $2.99 iPhone app that will come in handy for photographers who want to revisit or remember where they took a particular photo. It runs on your iPhone and records GPS coordinates at user specified intervals during a photography trip. I won’t go into details of how it works here here as you can visit the GPS4cam web site, but suffice it to say it is a simple but elegant photo geotagging solution. At the end of the trip it displays a QR code on the iPhone which you photograph with your camera. After downloading your photos, including the one you took of the QR code, a free PC based application reads the QR code and embeds the GPS coordinates into the EXIF data of your images based on the time they were taken. You can tag all images or isolate a subset in a separate folder for tagging.
Using GPS4cam was a complete no-brainer and seemed to work perfectly. Now, if I want to revisit this beautiful old barn on another day (maybe when the sun is shining), I simply input the GPS coordinates from the EXIF data into any navigation system to return and photograph another day.
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GPS4cam
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Latitude: 41° 43' 38.79915433", Longitude: 96° 37' 27.82952692"
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Date: May 22, 2011
Categories: Photography Technique, Random Thoughts
