It is becoming increasingly difficult to post about Nokia Beta Labs without using the word ‘boffins’ in the opening sentence.Nokia Location Tagger is a new release from the Beta Labs - a simple add-on to ’selected’ Nokia phones running S60 3rd Edition that allows you to geotag photos with GPS data.
Geotagging in this context just means finding the GPS coordinates for your location when you take a photo, and then recording those coordinates in the EXIF data associated with that photo. EXIF data is readable by a wide variety of software as well as photo sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa. These apps can use geotag data to organise your photos by location or display them using Google Maps, etc.
As apps go it is pretty underwhelming (you either need geotagging or you don’t, really) but there is an interesting paragraph in this blog post, announcing the app, which suggests that geotagging is to become a standard part of all future Nokia cameraphones. Is this part of a wider geolocation strategy by the wily Finns? Certainly, their Lifeblog service could make good use of it…
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