Our choice for niftiest feature in the iPhone 3G isn’t the eponymous 3G like most people’s is, hey WiFi is faster still and the original iPhone has that; it’s the GPS functionality. For quite a while now we’ve been intrigued by the possibilities of geotagged photos, but never got around to spending the couple thousand worth of gear or putting up with the annoying track log/timestamp reconciliation process that it would have taken up until now; and hey it would have been a waste if we had, because what do you know, the iPhone’s Camera app will do that now! Just allow it to when it asks, and it’ll embed the GPS latitude and longitude coordinates in standard EXIF format. Not altitude apparently, but oh well.
And we were even more pleased to find that there’s a readily available method to make some use of that info right now: it’s called “Flickr” which I imagine you are familiar with already! Just go into the privacy settings and allow it to dig into the EXIF tags and share your location information, and you’re all set.
Let’s take a look at what it does with this photo off our balcony we uploaded exactly as taken. Observe that over on the right it provides the links
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Taken in Vancouver, British Columbia (map)
- Taken with an Apple iPhone.
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