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Latest iPhone 2.0 Beta Adds Geo-Tagging to Photos

Now THAT is awesome. Think of the possibilities...

You're researching a city you want to visit, and you find photos based on its location. Amazing. I can't wait to have the next iPhone in my hands.
 
eyephone said:
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,...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.
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Just imagine being lost in a city. "Help I'm near a StarBucks and I can't find my way home" ...send image...

All your friends and family will be able to find your dead body. :)
 
How about less GPS-Geo anything and more quality in the photos by said camera. The camera is pretty much useless in most applications and if the subject so much as breathes the image blurs... For a company that prides itself on the look of things along with functionality the image quality generated by the camera is shameful.
 
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I wonder if the "Camera" is going to be bugging you to take pictures for some sort of Google Street View project?
 
b3beater said:
The camera is pretty much useless in most applications and if the subject so much as breathes the image blurs... For a company that prides itself on the look of things along with functionality the image quality generated by the camera is shameful.
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Are you aware that you should :
- press
- compose
- release

and NOT :
- compose
- press/release
 
pcguru83 said:
Because in this case it is a proper noun. Camera is the name of the iPhone application that takes pictures. :)
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Hey I know this a computer forum and all and it may seem a bit off topic, but whats a proper noun? I was always horrible at English. :-(
 
decimortis said:
if only the folks on LOST had one of these...
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:)
Picture of you on island: check
GPS Tag on picture: check
GSM or WIFI to call for help: nope

Solution:
Stick the iPhone in a bottle and let it float away. If I fould a bottle with an iPhone in it, I would totally want to get it.

To Do: Find a bottle to fit an iPhone inside :p
 
This is good news. iPhone 2.0 is shaping up to have some nice and significant new features, fingers crossed the hardware can make the best of it.
 
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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Yes. It would be very useful if Apple activated the geocoding in iPhoto as well. Not much use if it's only on your iPhone. (The key is having a helper app. that can take GPS information from a GPS tracker and upload it with the photos)
 
lamina said:
You're researching a city you want to visit, and you find photos based on its location.
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Yeh because every real photographer taking those pictures is going to want to use an iPhone because it can geo tag... :rolleyes:

I don't see the big deal here with GPS. Unless Google steps up and helps Apple out with software and updates maps, I can't see GPS being any more useful than the locate me feature on the iPhone now (albeit a bit more accurate). I hope I'm wrong and Apple's Maps 2.0 is awesome but I doubt iPhone 2.0 is going to match the hype of the original. Regardless, there's going to be a lot of let-down people who were expecting the world of iPhone 2 and only got 3G...
 
SpinThis! said:
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".
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It is strange that this confirmation screen does seem to go against their own UI guidelines... however, I can say with 100% certainty that both the camera app and the maps app prompt for this now.
 
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I like it now bring it on please.
 
lamina said:
Now THAT is awesome. Think of the possibilities...

You're researching a city you want to visit, and you find photos based on its location. Amazing. I can't wait to have the next iPhone in my hands.
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You can already do this on Flickr. Fill in the search field and select search --> for a location.

Bingo, you have a map with icons representing geotagged photos at their location.
 
SpinThis! said:
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".
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Apple is going to make its 'CoreLocation' services available to other applications. However, in the interest of user privacy, Apple will force all applications (including its own) to ask permission to use CoreLocation.
 
mainstreetmark said:
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..."
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Because Camera is an application, like Mail or Address Book.

It also sounds more personal...you can have a relationship beyond taking pics with Camera.
 
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