Amateur Photographer: A Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver designed to attach to the hotshoe of digital SLRs is predicted to help trigger a ‘geotagging’ revolution.
Geotagging allows photographers to automatically assign GPS data to their pictures. Its protagonists expect such technology to win mass market appeal – making life easier for photographers by helping them manage their collection and quickly search their image database, based on the location data embedded in the image file.
Geotate’s €100 device, called Kato, uses its own built-in memory (to store GPS data) and a rechargeable battery.
Geotate hopes that such ‘instant GPS camera technology’ will trigger an explosion in location tagging of images.
Amateur Photographer: A Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver designed to attach to the hotshoe of digital SLRs is predicted to help trigger a ‘geotagging’ revolution.
Geotagging allows photographers to automatically assign GPS data to their pictures. Its protagonists expect such technology to win mass market appeal – making life easier for photographers by helping them manage their collection and quickly search their image database, based on the location data embedded in the image file.
Geotate’s €100 device, called Kato, uses its own built-in memory (to store GPS data) and a rechargeable battery.
Geotate hopes that such ‘instant GPS camera technology’ will trigger an explosion in location tagging of images.
‘We think [automatic geotagging] will become a standard feature on cameras,’ said Paul Gough, Geotate’s senior director for product development.
Geotate draws on research predicting that the GPS camera sector will increase five-fold by 2011.
Though GPS accessory units for cameras are nothing new, Geotate claims its ‘USB GPS logger capture device’ offers key advantages over other GPS units in that it frees up picture taking and uses less power.
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