GPS Coordinates in Your Digital JPGS

One way to track your photos is to embed their GPS coordinates into them either as your take them or afterwards. There are add-ons for cameras that feed the GPS into the camera and embed that data into the EXIF file as you take them. Other programs allow you to lookup the coordinates then manually add them into the images.

 

Microsoft® has a free tool called Location Stamper http://www.wwmx.org that does it. This info then ties into the online MapPoint.Net system and displays on there where the pictures are from.

 

Google, via Google Maps, also allows them to be pinpointed within their map system.

 

This feature is called Geocoding / Geotagging. Very useful for surveyors, hikers, travelers, wildlife photographers, newspaper reporters, and so on where knowing where you took the picture is just as important as having the picture.