UPDATE: Found a nice self contained unit that replaces the Pocket PC, and Bluetooth gps receiver, more information at the bottom of the post.

I have been wanting to set this up for some time and recently found a combination of hardware and software that work for me. What is this all about you ask? Well let me shed some light on this. Geo photo, coding, or what ever you want to call it, is the ability to write GPS data to jpeg EXIF headers. This text data is stored in the header of a jpeg adding the longitude, latitude and altitude you took your photo at.

You can do this a few ways, first of all you can buy a camera with built in gps (as of this time they are still pretty low quality), buy a hand held gps device that stores (waypoint, GPX, NMEA data) or a combination of devices. I have chosen the latter because I had a few piece of hardware already. Most if not all devices export out to some data format the one I choose is NMEA data since it works with the software im using on my PC.

My hardware setup consists of:

• Pocket PC with built in bluetooth
• Canon SD900 10 mega pixel camera
• i-Blue 737 bluetooth gps.

and the software im using:

• Navio for the Pocket PC
• RoboGeo for my PC

So how do you make this all work?
Well in theory you connect your gps to your pocket pc via bluetooth launch the Navio software, start it’s gps logging option which can record every few seconds your location to a file and then take your photos.

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Here are some pretty kick ass photos taking in the HDR method which in basic terms you take many different exposure settings of the same photo to create a dynamic range of light and dark and use a photoshop plugin to combined them into one photo. If you want more detail visit this page

Anyhow onto the cool stuff, click on the links below.

• Tokyo Night scape
  
• House – notice at the bottom the images used to make the final HDR one
• New York City HDR Examples
• Some other great examples

If you want to try your own check out the FAQ on this page, and you can also use this software to combined your images into a HDR one. If you do any cool ones let me know I would love to check them out.

Someone sent me an image in email today and I thought I would share it with everyone reading the blog as well. I do have to say it looks fake but after doing some research and seeing the rotation of the object it is possible. The ends are cut off that you would think stick out but they align properly if you look this object in the right angle..

Don’t stress your brain on this one! Oh if you havn’t figured it out yet you can click on the image to see a larger version.

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