While at Macworld this year, I met a gentleman from Nikon and we realized that we had both been getting a lot of questions about the GPS connectivity of their D200 and D2X cameras using their MC-35 GPS cable.  I have now started testing this functionality after he so generously loaned us a D200 and the results are very good so far.  I will be posting more about geotagging photos in the future but here is a quick tip I can start you off with.

If you connect your GPS to your camera to take photos, the Lat/Lon information will then be present in the EXIF data of the camera.  I upload all my pictures to Flickr and there's one setting that you must enable if you want that data to be used to put your picture on a map.  Here's the link:

http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/

If you enable that setting in your account and upload the pictures with GPS information in them, Flickr will automatically place those on a map for you.  There's more to come on this subject.  I'm just getting started...

Comments

[Tom2007]

Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?

locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.

For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.

With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.

Have a look at www.locr.com.

[guido]

Hi chet,

I can't afford a D200. But with my D50 and robogeo.com I can do the same. I can geotag my photo's and upload them to flickr or make a google map with photo's.
see for example: http://www.gps-info.nl/earth/Hanmer/