Lost in space – photos from Whoknowswhere

Roland Hesz — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:18:00 +0000

I am sorting out my photos on flickr, placing them in sets and collection and I just started to place them on the map when I hit a really, really hard problem.
See, I got hundreds of photos from my last vacation, all nice and uploaded to flickr, and they even have tags and all, and they are in the correct set – photos from Madrid are in the Madrid set, Barcelona pics in the Barcelona, etc -, but there are loads that I can’t place on the map.

10 years, or even 2 years ago it would not have bothered me. They were taken in Barcelona, see, they look good, and I wish I was back there.
But now, I just sit here, staring at the map, trying to remember where did I take this photo? The thing is, if you put me down in Barcelona, or Madrid, or Paris, I would find the place again without fail, but now on the map it is rather hard. And what good is a map if you can’t place the picture at the exact right spot?

In May I’ll go to France to visit a friend, and I am sure I will make a lot of pictures again, and this time I want to know where I take them, so I could place them on the map. For that I will need a way to record the GPS coordinates to the photo, but I don’t know how to do that. I don’t own an expensive camera which has a function like that, all I got is a Canon PS A530, and hopefully I wil own a Nikon D40 by then, but neither of those have a built-in GPS, and I don’t know any gadgets that can be connected to them.

Is there any sensible way? Anyone got a tip?

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Lost in space – photos from Whoknowswhere