I have been reading about GPS enabling your camera. There are multiple ways with the easiest appearing to be GPS synchronization. The device sits on your pack and tracks your movements and the time. When you sync the data with your camera pictures, it will map the location data to the picture via the time stamp, with full support of RAW and various commercial photo applications (Adobe, Flickr).

There seem to be 2 market leaders, Sony and Phototrackr. A comparison of the 2 found here. We will see how well it works with their software, in a worst case scenario this is a generation one, bleeding edge investment on the way to a market that will expand.        

Just a matter of time before the GPS is embedded in the camera.

Update: In what can only be considered an uncanny coincidence, I came across this article describing Microsoft’s newly released free Pro Photo Tools that enable geotagging. Download it here.

From the article:  "That’s because geotagging, done well, enables people to find photos by searching for the word "Paris" rather than sifting through folders with obscure filenames like IMG_5829.jpg or squinting at hundreds of image thumbnails. Until the still-distant day when computers can recognize your Aunt Polly or the Grand Canyon, geotagging holds potential as a way for people to get a handle on ever-growing digital photo collections."

What I am trying to sort is how I would leverage this (Flickr being an obvious first choice and it may be easier, but it does not appear to automatically reference the GPS data). I see someone has figured this out way before me … Adobe Lightroom also has the GPS metadata field included, which is what I have been using for photo editing.

The blog on the Microsoft pro photo site has an interesting article on CSI using Photosynth (another cool app I have to play with when I get some free time) and the 2.0 update of the Expression tools.

A friend put me onto Expressions. I have been using the encoding tool to convert MP4 video into a more generic format so that it is broadly consumable across every device.