A little while ago I blogged about a GPS-enabled inexpensive digital camera
, a Nikon P6000, that I had just acquired. Since then I have used it lot all over the world, and my conclusion is that it really is pretty cool.
For example, over the Christmas holidays my wife and I spent a bit of time in Venice.
If you have been to Venice, you’ll know that you spend most of your time lost, in the sense that when you see a building or artifact that you like and may want to see again, it is hard to find out what it is and how you’re going to get back there again. With a GPS-enabled digital camera, you can take a picture and then upload it to Flickr, which recognizes the WGS-84 lon/lat and places it on a web map. I was surprised, pleasantly, that in most places in Venice, in spite of the incredibly narrow ways, it it is usually possible to get enough satellites to get a geolocation.
One thing, it is important to bear in mind that the location being recorded is the location of the camera, not of the object photographed, so you may have to extrapolate.
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