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Monday, 21 April 2008, 2:06 PM

On Location

I agree with the article -- I'd have a lot of interest in a camera that had a built-in GPS, and so could flag (in EXIF data) the location of the snapshot. Sure, that would have some interesting Law & Order type moments ("You claim that's a picture of your wife's breast? Then why was it taken at the Motel 6 in Scranton, where you were checked in as Mr and Mrs Whoopie?"), but it would be nice to be able to look at, um, non-incriminating photos and determine, "Hey, yeah, that was at the Met, now I remember that."

Or, better yet, have a photo library program automatically offer to tag the photos as being at a given locale (city, state, park, museum, etc.) based on the coordinates.

GPS stuff is one of those technologies that's going to revolutionize a lot of things.

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