There’s no question that sharing media is on the minds of many.. indeed you could almost say that sharing your digital media (photos and videos) is a requirement of any business trying to tell their story. Billions of photos are circulating, however, many still without any relevant and useful geolocation information associated.
For businesses, its important to try and remember that by including some level of geotagging and georeferencing along with a photo that enhanced sharing can be experienced, particularly via local search tools and web services designed to take advantage of such information – case in point, photos uploaded to Google’s Picasa service that are geoferenced will often appear in search results for that region. So, how to include Geo location info within photos? Smartphone users will need to consult advanced settings to ensure GPS tagging is enabled, however, there’s also a number of add on apps and tools that can be handy.
The following are just a few useful tools:
- ExifExtractor With ExifExtractor you get the option to get access to all Exif information of your digital photos and implement them to GIS independent data formats
- GPS-Photo Link enables photographers to accurately map the locations of photos taken either with a standard digital camera and hand-held GPS receiver or with a GPS-enabled camera
- EveryTrail is a community website where members upload GPS data and photos to create visual interactive trip reports of their travel experiences. A simple way to tag and share your trips
- GeoTagger OnDemand uses MetaCarta’s proprietary natural language processing and Geographic Data Module (“GDM”) technology to indentify and disambiguate geographic references and resolve the geographic meaning
- Red Hen Systems Since 1994, Red Hen Systems has been developing patented hardware and software for collecting geo-referenced video and photo data in the field
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