Geocoding on the Cheap
The company Eye-Fi introduced a 4 Gig SDHC memory card with two cool twists. The Eye-Fi Explore Video adds geotags to your photos and automatically, wirelessly uploads them to your favorite photo sharing site! That's right, the Explore has a tiny wireless transmitter built in. As soon as you get within the range of one of their 10,000 hotspots, the photos start uploading automatically.
The geocoding isn't perfect. They couldn't fit a GPS receiver into a SDHC card, so they use knowledge of the location of access points to guesstimate your location. If you're shooting in the middle of nowhere, the tags will probably be way off. In populated areas things should be much more accurate.
The card costs $100 and comes with 1 year of the wireless access service. After that, it's $15 a year.
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