Geotagging using iPhone as Hotspot GOOD NEWS!

[dcalcutt]

I have great news to share.

I have my Eye-Fi card set to FTP all my pictures.

I also own a iPhone, and have it set up to be a hotspot. Now all my picture on the Eye-Fi are instantly transfered from my camera to my FTP server through my iPhone's wifi, and 3G network. Its a good thing I have 6GB data package.

I was concerned about the GEO-tagging. I know the Eye-Fi card gets the MAC addres of the router, and using this information tries to figure out the location you are taking the picture. Now that I use my iPhone as the router, all pictures taken are correctly Geo-Tagged with the iphone.

I loaded last nights pictures and some pictures taken inbetween, all were correctly geotagged, with the accuracy of the iPhone.

Good News for me. Better than spednding mega bucks on an adapter for geotagging pictures!

Darrin J. Calcutt

Now the next question, if I do not have my iPohne on me, or turned off, the the pictures be geotagged with a differnet location when the iPhone is turned on?

By the way, the iPhone has to be turn on, and in settings, hotspot for the camera card to find the SSID of the iPhone.

Jesus Love you!

[mackmgg]

It only works with the iPhone's hotspot turned on. The reason this works is apparently Apple updates the data on the geotagging servers with the iPhone's GPS data. It's the same reason iPods and iPads on the iPhone's hotspot get GPS data as well.

[maso]

I guess this means that if you're out in the middle of nowhere, with no Data Signal for the phone, then the GPS coordinates will not be accurate? Or will it use the coords direct from the phone at that time, not from those sync'd with the IP or mac address address on the servers?

[jsun]

Our system doesn't actually use the iPhone in order to geotag photos. Eye-Fi geotagging is based on the wi-fi networks that were in range of the card when the photos were shot, and when the images pass through the iPhone that does not affect the geotagging results.

In order for us to add geotags to your images if you transfer them to iOS, you must have another destination enabled, like an online sharing site (Flickr, Picasa, etc.) or Eye-Fi View, and after the photos reach the iPhone, and the iPhone connects to the internet, our app can automatically forward the photos to your other destination(s) and attempt to geotag them.

So if you're somewhere without data for the iPhone, the images can reach the iPhone, then they will stay queued up until the phone is back online, when they should forward and hopefully get tagged. Of course, if you're shooting in the middle of nowhere, there are probably no wi-fi signals around for the card to learn about, so I'm afraid they will probably not be tagged anyway. Here's some more detail about geotagging/WPS:
http://support.eye.fi/software/problem/ ... eotagging/

I hope that helps.