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Latest iPhone 2.0 Beta Adds Geo-Tagging to Photos

kaiwai said:
Because this forum is filled with idiots who randomly click on things.
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Because some people might be worried with the consequences on your privacy! I think it will be cool app but must have some security! For example: you take a picture and upload it to the internet. Everyone knows where you are if the tag is on the foto, even if hidden! That's why some people rate it as negative! Or they just don't like it! Not because they're stupid!
 
"Camera" would like to use your current location. Cancel or allow?

Your phone is beginning to sound like Vista. Cancel or allow?
 
Orelhas said:
Because some people might be worried with the consequences on your privacy! I think it will be cool app but must have some security! For example: you take a picture and upload it to the internet. Everyone knows where you are if the tag is on the foto, even if hidden! That's why some people rate it as negative! Or they just don't like it! Not because they're stupid!
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Excuse me, but you are asked before it is done. The conclusion still stands that there are idiots.
 
woodekm said:
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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So Im outside my house taking photos of my street that eventually lead into my house. Will people goe-zoom into my living room to see my friends drinking beer?
 
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's not a fake. The pic is accurate. Trust me. ;)
 
What does it do for the USER besides take our photos and info and give them to Google to build Google Earths database of mapping or whatever company or app the info is going to????? If that's all it is then I'm really NOT interested in participating.
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It has nothing to do with Google -- I can't imagine this or any phone uploading your photos to any service without your consent. This is just another way for you to organize your photos. Imagine -- you're looking to buy a house and you go to a bunch of open houses in one day, and take pictures of features you really like. And then you get home and can't remember which photo goes with which house -- with geo-tagging, you can easily place each photo on the map so you'll know where you were when you took it.

It's not life-altering, but it's a nice piece of functionality to have.
 
About how many days are the betas usually posted for all iPhone Devs, after being posted for Enterprise Devs? Just a bit interested
 
JonboyDC said:
It has nothing to do with Google -- I can't imagine this or any phone uploading your photos to any service without your consent. This is just another way for you to organize your photos. Imagine -- you're looking to buy a house and you go to a bunch of open houses in one day, and take pictures of features you really like. And then you get home and can't remember which photo goes with which house -- with geo-tagging, you can easily place each photo on the map so you'll know where you were when you took it.

It's not life-altering, but it's a nice piece of functionality to have.
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I could really have used that last year along with google's street view. It would have saved me a lot of time. Incidentally, I was at the bar outside—literally—of work and we saw a street view vehicle with cameras mounted on it pass by. I wonder how long it'll be until that gets uploaded.
 
wal9000 said:
"Camera" would like to use your current location. Cancel or allow?

Your phone is beginning to sound like Vista. Cancel or allow?
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granted, revealing your coordinates is a more pressing reason for a dialog box than asking for permission for Internet Explorer to connect to something.
 
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