GPS Tracks: Geotagging for your SLR
I consider myself an amateur photographer who packs a Sony alpha 200 on long trips and keeps my iPhone 4 (loaded with photo related apps) in my back pocket at all times. Recently I discovered Geotagging, this amazing feature that allows a user to display on a map, in iPhoto, Aperture, or Flickr, exactly where a photo was taken. One problem remains, most SLR cameras don’t have a GPS chip so you have to either guess where you shot the photo or take a note somewhere on a piece of paper. How archaic! But then I found a $1.99 application called GPS Tracks that allows me to track in the background of my iPhone 4, where I am at all times.
For privacy reasons I zoomed out, it would normally show at street level.
Now you may be asking yourself how this assists with mapping photos you have shot on a different device. Simply email the GPX file from your iPhone to your Mac and import it alongside the photos. Aperture instantly aligns the time code of the photos with the location and time of the iPhone’s GPS. The only downside to the application is that you cannot send the GPX file to another application, to store in your Dropbox for safe keeping.
Beware, you will start Geotagging… everything. As you can see from my screenshots of my Aperture library, it was really helpful! In all seriousness though, if you pack an iPhone 3GS or above and use an SLR, it is a must have application on your iPhone.
GPS Tracks is available in the App Store for $1.99
