Camera companies to use geotagging?
We’re on a tagging binge here at Askthephotographer.com. Several camera execs have expressed their interest in geotagging or were showing off technology that had the geotagging feature at PMA 2008. What is geotagging? It’s when digital photos are labeled with the location where the image was taken.
It seems that many companies are going that way according to CNet News.
“The strongest evidence I encountered is Air Semiconductor, a start-up building a chip designed to let cameras process GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite signals so latitude and longitude data can be attached to digital photos. It remains to be seen how well this works, but this idea is the holy grail of geotagging–no extra hardware or software is required.
Samples of Air Semiconductor’s first chip, the Airwave-1, are due to start shipping this summer, with production versions going on sale at the end of this year or early next, said Chief Executive Stephen Graham.
“I think PMA next year is going to be when a number of companies unveil cameras with geotagging built in,” said Graham, who flew in from the company’s Swindon, U.K., headquarters to meet with camera companies at the photo show. ”
Not only should this make the validity of some photos more provable, but now people will know where you were when you took certain photos. Whether or not that’s good thing is still up in the air.
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