This is a device I designed and built to help me take geo-tagged pictures. The picture you can see if of version 2 which is camera shoe mounted. Geo-Tagger basically records the longitude and latitude and magnetic compass direction into a CSV file on the (blue) SD Flash card each time a photo it taken. It picks up the trigger signal from the camera shoe, reads the NMEA data from the Garmin GPS, parses it and then stores the relevant data on the card. I therefore get one entry per picture and providing the time setting on the camera is set to UTC the images and location records can be easily matched up.

After becoming interested in geo-photography, I quickly found that there can be a lot of effort involved to do it properly. I was particularily interested in recording the direction of the photograph which is critical when cross referencing the image with other databases such as mapping data sets. Many of the existing solutions only record location and take a guess at direction from the GPS track data - not a good assumption and certanly not future proof. Even the Nikon GPS enabled D-SLRs ignore compass direction at the moment.

Geo-Tagger is my solution for rapid and convenient geo-tagging and until Nikon and the other camera manufacturers support location and direction data, it will have a critical advantage.

Geo-Tagger is usefull for photographers in general, the police for accident related photography, insurance adjusters, train, plane and bird enthusiasts and many more industries and groups.

I have just created a commercial site for the geotagger. See www.geotagger.co.uk for full details.

Richard Jelbert - GEO-TAGGER