Digital Photography Feature - Geotagging Comments

President Reagan is credited with the instruction that access to the GPS system should always be free after the shooting down of a Korean airliner by the Soviets because it had strayed off course.
Just imagine if it had been licensed to an organisation like Microsoft ?
Two hundred quid a month subs and you would have to buy their kit, okay I should be fairer, Murdochs' Sky would do it for £99.99 a month if you took the phone and TV package, but there would be adverts between turn signals.

Sorry, I was so busy with the trivia I forgot to say what a great piece, nice one Cliff, imformative and immensly readable.

As far as I know, none of these solutions will work if you're shooting RAW files. This seems like a huge disadvantage which most people won't realise.

Reading this excellent review brings up the question I wonder about for a long time: why there is abolutely no (AFAIK) camera with a built-in DCF77-receiver? It would be sooo useful: For geotagging purposes (synchronization of date and time between your camera and the geotagging device) but also for synchronizing pictures of the same place or event, taken by different cameras. A feature often found in cheap watches - wouldn't it be cheap and easy to implement into digicams?

@ZenerEffect
I disagree if you are in any unfamilier area be it a town, city, countryside and especially another country and take a picture you can instantly find out exactly where you took the photo.
Obviously it won't be much use taking pictures of fish in your back garden or ducks down your local park as you will know exactly where that is.

To ZenerEffect, the latent latitude luddite :) I would anticipate one of the benefits of geotagging will be in cataloging and retrieving photos. Imagine after a few decades of picture taking, when you have a burgeoning collection of zillions of photos, as long as you can recall where it was you took a photo - something naturally easy to recall - then you have a quick way to narrow the search parameters, and all without the drudgery and discipline of tagging your photos manually.