Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com

I was just trying out Flickr for some Zenzo pictures and I noticed:

• Scott Schecter had already posted how DasBlog and Flickr can work together.
• Dave Bouwman has a nice Google Earth/Flickr/Geotagging mashup up at his /labs site, while...
• Dan from GeoBloggers has gone to work for Yahoo/Flickr.
• gmaptrack does a nice job of formalizing Google Map's mashups and making them more accessible to the average Joe.
• There's a great article over at MAKE on how to tag your own photos with a cheap handheld GPS and camera.
• Mappr then takes your geo-tagged photos from Flickr and lays them out in a very classy flash interface.
• Tools like RoboGEO will automatically take time-stamped photos and GPS data and write the GPS coords into the EXIF information within the image.
• Zoto will automatically pushpin geo-tagged uploaded photos.
• Microsoft's World Wide Media Exchange (WWMX) Research Project is pretty sweet, as is their Web Demo.
• Remember Ceiva? You can get frames that will connect to your Flickr RSS feed and download tagged photos. I suspect the Ceiva venture capitalists didn't see all these Tetris pieces falling together this quickly. BTW, Ceiva's only $99 now, but they actually charge for a Broadband "adapter" - ouch.

There's such a fantastic amount of work going on with Geotagging and Photo sharing, but it all feels so skunkworks. Maybe that's just what meta-data feels like, but even the geo-tagged name=value pairs that appear in "tunnelled" within flickr's geotagged photos seem hacky. There's a lot of equipment needed to pull this stuff off.

How long until GPS's are so tiny that they are just inside any small digital camera and the JPEG's EXIF data is automatically geo-tagged? Its interesting to me that Wi-Fi is in Nikons but I can't seem to find a camera that includes a GPS. It'd sure be shiny. It's so hard now that only phillip torrone can do it. Sigh. These pictures ARE NOT geo-tagged. :)

UPDATE: RichB points me to the 3.2MP Ricoh Camera/GPS combo. A little funky because the GPS is a CF Card in the bottom of the camera, but still very cool. Definitely better than a 1MP GPS-enabled camera phone.