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on locr: geo-tagging photos

Visiting one of our service providers this morning gave me a chance to play with a photo geo-tagging service. locr provides a service that uses an internal or external GPS receiver to tag your photos with GPS coordinates which you can then upload to their website to share with the rest of the world. It certainly makes geo-tagging your photos very easy - it is all done automatically rather than running a script later which tags your photos by comparing timestamps on them with timestamps in a GPS receiver. I am still coming to grips with a new phone (its turning into a love/hate affair) so the quality of the photos taken here isn't good. locr runs a program on the phone that you use to take photos with. As I didn't really delve too deep into instructions the photos aren't that well focussed - however, in my hurry, I wasn't sure whether there was a way to focus the camera using locr or not. The phone takes a few minutes to pick up the GPS positioning so you really need to anticipate when you are going to take that first photo (something not easily achieved in many situations). Anyway, once the photos were taken, they could be immediately uploaded to the web which was great. You can see these photos here. locr has a javascript 'badge' that you can embed in your site/blog etc but it is misbehaving with our blog software at the moment and I haven't had time for a closer look. Cheers, Jerry.

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Posted July 20, 2007