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Latest iPhone 2.0 Beta Adds Geo-Tagging to Photos

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Apple has continued to add new features to their upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware release. The latest version seeded to Enterprise customers has a added geo-tagging to the Camera application, according to Appleinsider.


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The latest iPhone 2.0 Beta (5A292g) asks the user for permission before transmitting their location information. Apple currently uses Wi-fi and Cell tower identification to pinpoint locations, but is rumored to add GPS support in the next version of the iPhone.
Essentially, geo-tagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to media files such as latitude and longitude coordinates -- or even names of places -- so that those files can later be referenced, searched, and grouped based on their origin.
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This functionality appears to fall under a broader "Location Services" preference that can be turned on or off.

The use of location in mobile phone applications is a growing trend. iPhone developers are already working on location based social networks and even a multiplayer role playing game (MMORPG) set in the real world.

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I like the sound of that. The triangulation feature doesn't work so well here, so GPS would be a welcome addition.
 
GPS! I see you coming!

I am very sure that we will see GPS in the next iPhone! It will be integrated in CoreLocation!
 
I don't get a mention for submitting it to you?

Edit: thanks Arn

Also did anyone else spot this on the second to last line:

iPhone Software 2.0 is due next month alongside the company's much-anticipated next-generation iPhone that will boast support for so-called 3G networks. However, it will also be made available for existing iPhone owners.

What does that mean exactly?
 
Giggerty, giggerty Goo!


Oh steve, home many more days are you going to leave us waiting on the edge of our seats!?
:(:(:(
 
I wonder why this was release to only Enterprise customers? And not to all current developers with access to the betas?
 
will it work for first generation iphone?

i love this feature. does it seem that it will work with the current phone (using tower triangulation)?
 
So...

Let me make sure I am understanding this function correctly. Being that the next iphone may have a true GPS built in, you would be able to take a picture and link it to a location, only to return to it later?

Lets say that I visit an office building several miles away, I can take a picture of the building for graphical reference, and have that location on my phone anytime I need to revisit this location, all by selecting the picture in a list. Or maybe you could send someone a picture of your current location that would give them a picture and GPS coordinates of where you are.

If I am correct this sounds like a great idea.
 
sassenach74 said:
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iPhone Software 2.0 is due next month alongside the company's much-anticipated next-generation iPhone that will boast support for so-called 3G networks. However, it will also be made available for existing iPhone owners.

What does that mean exactly?
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Just that the iPhone 2.0 firmware is coming for all current iphone users.

spazzcat said:
I wonder why this was release to only Enterprise customers? And not to all current developers with access to the betas?
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Enteprise customers get it first, and the devs usually get it shortly.

arn
 
sassenach74 said:
I don't get a mention for submitting it to you?

iPhone Software 2.0 is due next month alongside the company's much-anticipated next-generation iPhone that will boast support for so-called 3G networks. However, it will also be made available for existing iPhone owners.

What does that mean exactly?
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The iPhone software update will be available to existing iPhone customers (non-3G). These features will be present, just without the 3G data speeds, GPS, front facing video camera, and the other hardware upgrades rumored to be in the new release (personally I am waiting for the iPhone cotton-candy maker upgrade).

On a similar note, I highly recommend reading this CNet blog (
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9942958-37.html?tag=blog.6
). Some of these android apps are really cool and very geo-centric, and this Google development fund isn't nearly as large as what KPCB is putting together. 3rd party apps are going to be the tipping point of this phone.
 
Gps

I would love it if the next moddel phone would have gps build in, to me that's the one reason to upgrade my current phone.
No more sepperate navigation stuff needed for in the car for instance, can't wait , but i first have to see it before i believe it.
 
I have a few things to say:

1. Why do they say "Camera wants...", treating it like a proper noun. Why not "The camera wants..."

2. Google Maps has geographically tied pictures now, so I expect that there's going to be about forty billion pictures of the Empire State Building now.

3. Based on number 2, technologies like Photosynth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16frKJLVi0) will suddenly become very attractive.

4. As more pictures get taken, and Photosynth technology evolves, we'll be able to accurately model real world locations, with accuracy increasing with each picture taken and uploaded.

5. As the decades pass, the real world model will change and evolve and in a hundred years, YouTube will be able to show you New York City evolving over a century from every location. :)

6. Eventually, I'll be remembered as a genius.
 
Soon, EVERYONE will know where you are: schools, work, gov't, parents, kids, g/f's, wives, etc...

Won't that be awesome.....ugh....
 
I smell a fake.

Either Apple is ignoring their own UI guidelines or is just falling off... but I have never seen "OK" in an Apple dialog box. Apple recommends an active verb to initiate the action—in this case, "Use" would probably be used instead of "OK".

Second, that dialog box is unnecessary. Apple would either set it for you automatically with a preference or not. Apple has also never referred to its applications directly either. If you've just taken a picture, it's pretty obvious it's from the Camera application. It would probably be better phrased such as "Use your current location with this photo?" with "Don't Use" or "Use".
 
Hidden Line in iPhoto

iPhot o6.0 hidden GPS code

Anybody remember this article in '06. It discusses the fact there has been development in this focus for sometime now. Prior to the past post there really was only speculation of a portable with communication functions. This will be interesting where it is taken. Maybe we will be able to see future devices dependent on the GPS functions of the iPhone (aka my SLR digital) to tag images when loaded into Aperture/iPhoto.
 
It reminds me of the Mac commercial making fun of Microsoft Vista security. I can see the secret service guy standing there:

"Camera would like to use your current location...Allow or Deny".
 
bsteyaert said:
iPhot o6.0 hidden GPS code

Anybody remember this article in '06. It discusses the fact there has been development in this focus for sometime now. Prior to the past post there really was only speculation of a portable with communication functions. This will be interesting where it is taken. Maybe we will be able to see future devices dependent on the GPS functions of the iPhone (aka my SLR digital) to tag images when loaded into Aperture/iPhoto.
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I do remember that article. I was just about to post about it. Beat me to it :). Very interesting tie in.
 
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