My next camera will have GPS

My next camera will have GPS

While the camera in my iPhone isn't great, it offers something my full camera doesn't: automatic geo-tagging via GPS. This means photos from my iPhone have location data included in the image file, allowing Picasa to lay them out on a map (http://picasaweb.google.com/sumocat666/SumocatSRambles/photo#map) for me.

This is a map of photos I've posted on Rambles (http://sumocats.blogspot.com/). You can see the majority are in the Northern VA DC Metro area. Ironically, screenshots of map locations are not tagged and therefore not shown on the map. The map is set up online in Picasa Web Albums using Google Maps. Offline, Picasa lays out my photos in Google Earth. Between map locations and time stamps, it makes obsolete the practice of marking photos with time and place.

Rather than upgrading to a whole new camera, I'm tempted to get the Eye-fi Explore (http://tinyurl.com/63t8x5) wifi SD card. Eye-fi SD cards add wifi connectivity to digital cameras, automatically uploading photos at wifi hotspots. The "Explore" model also adds geotagging via hotspot triangulation. It's not as accurate as GPS and wouldn't work in isolated locations. But I'd imagine it's quite effective in urban areas. A bit pricey though at $130, so it wouldn't really be worth it, but geo-tagging is definitely worth the upgrade to GPS.
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