If you have an iPhone you know you love it. Now your just about to love it even more!

While in Barnes and Noble with my girlfriend Kari I picked up the iPhone book by Scott Kelby and I was flipping through it when I came across the GPS section and how every time you take a picture with apples camera app. It geo tags your images! Thats right it bakes the longitude and latitude right into the images metadata.

Why is this so cool? Because now when you go out scouting places to shoot photos and snap a picture with your phone the location of where you were standing when you took the picture will never be forgotten. So ten years down the road you can easily find out where you took that photo and go shoot some photos at that location.

Now how do you see and use this metadata? With lightroom its a snap! Just go to your library mode select one of your iPhone photos. Then on the right hand side will be all your meta data telling you what camera was used, shutter speed, all that stuff. But if you look at the EXIF section of it all your see GPS and some numbers. Guess what if you click on it. It will launch your web browser going right to Google Maps and pin pointing where you were when you took the shot, well I would say within 100 ft. I added some images to the end of this post to show you exactly how it all works.

Here is the image I captured

Here is where I click to launch Google Maps in my web browser

Here is my Google Maps result.

Tags: Camera, Gage Thompson, Geo Tag, GPS, iphone, Location, Photography

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