Last Update of Nokia Location Tagger

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Last Update of Nokia Location Tagger

Wed, 2008-05-07 08:35

Guest blogger: Antony Pranata, Nokia Location Tagger team.

I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is Location Tagger has just been updated. The bad news is this version will be the last update on Beta Labs. Instead, location tagging will be integrated into selected future Nokia devices.

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Submitted by on 07-05-2008 11:22.

So can we expect it to be integrated into the N95 firmware in the future?

Submitted by on 10-06-2008 09:47.

Hi there! Love this app.

Found a bug though... it works well on my home network (t-mobile uk) when I am in the UK, but found that when I was in Spain every photo I took crashed the Location Tagger app. Sort of defeats the purpose as it is when I am traveling that I want to record my position on photos!!!

Look forward to a patch ;-)

Submitted by on 14-05-2008 11:52.

I'd like to see integration of camera functionality with Nokia Maps - some examples:

1) To see the photos on your mobile displayed on your Maps client (similar to Google Maps / Google Earth)

2) To be able to use the Maps software to geotag a given photo (when GPS is unavailable, or days after you took the photo) - this should be possible both from within Maps and from within the media gallery (which will then fire up Maps to set the location of the photo).

3) Rather than locking on to GPS again when taking a photo, it should use GPS info from Nokia Maps if it's already open and connected.

Any plans to implement any of this? And if not, why not?

Submitted by on 07-05-2008 13:41.

I've been using this for a while now, and it's a great little app. I look forward to it being included in the firmware update for the N95-3! *wink wink wink wink*

Submitted by on 08-06-2008 23:44.

For some reason Beta3 keeps crashing/exiting on my N95-3 (with the previous firmware and the newest released one). I have it set to start upon boot, it keeps running in the background, but the first time I start the camera, the location tagger ends. I exit the camera, start location tagger again, start up the camera a 2nd time, and the tagger happily runs with it's nice icon in the corner.

Beta2 worked fine, this only started happening with Beta3. Am I alone with this problem?

Submitted by on 07-05-2008 11:30.

> So can we expect it to be integrated into the N95 firmware in the future?

We are not allowed to comment anything about future Nokia roadmap, if it hasn't been announched somewhere. Sorry. (While I understand the policy, I hate this...)

Submitted by on 07-05-2008 14:25.

I really love this little app, shame it won't be updated anymore but then as a 'beta' app is was pretty solid as it was.

That said I look forward to seeing a geotag feature being shipped with the OS - saves having another background app constantly running! :) (I always have Mobbler running too... Last.fm scrobbling)

Submitted by on 15-05-2008 22:20.

I am saving photos in microSD. If I remove it the log disappear...
Just some more thoughts:
Is there a way to bring it back again?
Is there a way to geotag any photo (perhaps by pointing location in a map)?
Is there a way of locating any geotaggeg photo in a map?

Submitted by on 01-06-2008 18:33.

Maps2.0 can do a rough position estimate on celltower identification besides GPS info. Locationtagger seems only to use GPS info. Why not use both in location tagger too?

Submitted by on 21-11-2008 17:52.

If you take a picture, but don't yet have a GPS lock...then you open "GPS data" program and view the satelite status...as soon as it locks to your coordinates, you would expect the Location Tagger to tag the photo...but instead, the Location Tagger crashes.

If you don't open the "GPS data" program, the phone doesn't know to try and find your coordinates after you take a picture.

Too bad this bug wasn't fixed.