17
Jul 2010

Bison

Location and camera settings
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Location tagging

I see your gallery has location tagging support. I'm not sure how you are doing it right now (though I assume by hand) but I was thinking you could put your GPS shield to use as a geotagger. Either hit a button on it each time you take a picture to log the location and then match it up with your file name or you could constantly log the location and time and use the timestamps of the photos to pull out the appropriate coordinates. The latter is less hassle while shooting, but requires more Arduino memory and likely fancy software to cross reference your logs and your photos, but something I've thought would be neat to have (if I shot more photos, that is).

Re: Location tagging

I like the idea, but I worry it would introduce a layer of needless complexity. For the amount of time I would spend fiddling with the GPS logger, I could probably just tag the photos by hand. Of course, this opinion isn't very nerdy of me, but I'm making a conscious effort to be more practical with this iteration of the website.

One thing I'd love to see is a camera with a built in GPS receiver that would do all this on the fly, without manual intervention. Now that would be impressive.

I like that smart phones do

I like that smart phones do have the automatic geotagging. I suspect that they don't have this in SLR cameras due to the time it takes for GPS receivers to connect. How long does your Arduino shield take to get a good signal?

GPS connection time

It takes the GPS receiver on the Arduino less than a minute to get a signal outdoors and a few minutes while indoors. If I stack another shield on top of the GPS shield, it blocks the signal a fair bit.

I'm thinking geotagging is not available in DSLRs since a GPS antenna is pretty large and space is at a premium in cameras. Not being able to get a location while indoors and underground would also be enough of a limitation to prevent manufacturers from including it.

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