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Latest iPhone 2.0 Beta Adds Geo-Tagging to Photos

kb152 said:
the one at 14th st. closes at midnight ... so, no.

i still vote that it's the wonkavator though ... haha. i just pictured the entire line backed up for the elevator and the stairs wrapping around it are completely empty. :D
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reports in that a line now in front of SoHo store...can anyone confirm and/or photograph?
 
Zeegler said:
Nintendo released Wii Fit a whole day early in only their NYC flagship store, then everywhere else in US the next day. Maybe Apple is borrowing from Nintendo's playbook?
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I sure hope they don't pull that crap. Last thing I want to do is scramble all over creation to get one once they are released. Apple, if you do that, I will be mad but you will still get my money:D
 
Preview.app has had support for Geo-related features since Leopard. Only trouble is there are so few of them around at the moment, you can geocode photos on Picasa Web Albums though, and you can create Maps on Google Maps adding your photos to different locations but there really isn't a camera with GPS in it (unless of course, there is, then I'd like a link to it please :) ), so that leaves it to the mobile market. Nokia had some weird speech about taking on Google recently and reinventing the Internet with "Location" built into it... well while the goal is nice it's a bit too much hype for my system to take, but at least with this, Apple won't be falling behind Nokia, especially since it really is a good idea.

Sebastian
 
That Sea Dragon stuff is cool!

Zoomable user interfaces, thousands of peoples photos "seemed" together making practically 3d image, is badass. In the future, I can imagine an almost virtual walkthrough of any popular place in the world, through the use of other peoples photos.

Cell phone cameras can only help this to become reality.
 

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I would just like a comment from one of the iPhone junkies as to why they are in line for a yet unannounced product? I thought certain people had no lives but jeez, there hasn't even been an announcement yet.
 
b3beater said:
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 have to disagree on this one. I took photos at the NY car show with my phone and people actually thought I used a stand alone camera.
It could use more megapixels though.
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Digital Skunk said:
I would just like a comment from one of the iPhone junkies as to why they are in line for a yet unannounced product? I thought certain people had no lives but jeez, there hasn't even been an announcement yet.
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I'm still waiting in line for movie tickets to Star Wars: Episode 7

SO BACK OFF!!!! ;)
 
Stately said:
I have to disagree on this one. I took photos at the NY car show with my phone and people actually thought I used a stand alone camera.
It could use more megapixels though.
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Great shots, within reason it's not how good the camera is, but how good the photographer is. So credit goes to you for getting those shots.
 
About time

It's about time that geo-tagging becomes more of a standard in digital cameras and not just a curiosity which is seems to be today.
 
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, only to return to it later?
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Digital cameras store all sorts of metadata in the images you take. The metadata adheres to a standard known as EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) which can be read by all sorts of applications. EXIF data can include everything from the date/time an image is taken to the type of lens used to the shutter speed, ISO, and other advanced settings (if a digital camera supports them). It can also store the serial number of the camera, which can lead to all sorts of trouble if you assume photos are anonymous (people who leaked confidential data via digital photos have been tracked down by law enforcement this way). The EXIF format also specifies placeholders for GPS latitude/longitude and other GPS/location details, so the chances are they're simply going to add this information into photos that the iPhone takes.

Your idea of "going back" to a location where you snapped a photograph wouldn't be all that difficult. You'd just need an application that can read the latitude/longitude from the EXIF metadata in a digital photo and tell your iPhone to go to that location. Whether or not Apple will provide that functionality directly waits to be seen.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Okay, this is a nice feature, but where in the world are my productivity apps at? How about iWork Mobile, or iWork Lite? What good is a phone with enterprise features and speed if all I am going to be doing is looking at Myspace and Facebook?

Come on and give us POWERFUL apps and features... I know you can do it!
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For real dude . . . :cool:
 
previous versions did that

5A574d did that for my entire vacation. The coordinates were way of, but all my photos were geo-tagged. I've heared 5A240d did that as well. Didn't earlier versions?
 
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