There is a timing problem with geotagging. If I am going to turn on my camera, snap a photo, and expect a geotag, then the GPS had to be already running. It takes a while, seconds to minutes, to get a location from power off. That leaves a few compromised choices…
- leave the gps on all the time. This gets you a geotag but you have to charge your camera every day, like your phone.
- update the geotag when turned on, but use the previous location for any shots until there is a lock. This is ok for rough location but users aren’t going to like that the first picture of a trip has the wrong location if they don’t warm up the camera first.
- stay on after a picture is taken long enough to get a lock then rewrite the picture with the location. This works, unless you take the card out and hand it to someone before the rewrite.
Nabbing the location from the cell phone gets you a live location for free.
- leave the gps on all the time. This gets you a geotag but you have to charge your camera every day, like your phone.
- update the geotag when turned on, but use the previous location for any shots until there is a lock. This is ok for rough location but users aren’t going to like that the first picture of a trip has the wrong location if they don’t warm up the camera first.
- stay on after a picture is taken long enough to get a lock then rewrite the picture with the location. This works, unless you take the card out and hand it to someone before the rewrite.
Nabbing the location from the cell phone gets you a live location for free.