that is INCREDIBLE. I love it. Now if only it were a bit less expensive...I'm too cheap to buy it!

Wow. That is cooler than cool! Will automatically dump photos when you come in range of WiFi. No more full SD cards!

heza May pay for itself - includes year of Wayport access! At $5-10/day, that might be worth it!

Very cool!

this is a gadget I would just love to see in action. Wonder if Santa has any of these!

Wow!

I have one

It's pretty darned nifty that it starts downloading my pics to my computer and then uploading straight to flickr

but the geo tagging leaves much to be desired. not true gps, obviously, so relies on a service

and it doesn't work on just any open wifi. you have to set it ahead of time. though will work at the waypoints

digimom How do you set it to use a WAP? Does it support WEP? Service, or an IP lookup table for Geotagging? (Wonder what my phone reports?)

that is really neat, may have to get one for christmas!

you plug it into a card reader to set up your wireless. and you'll want to submit your wifi info to the geotagging site

This sounds fabulous! I think I am just beginning to understand the geotagging site stuff. I wish there was a good tutorial guide.

digimom Do you have some hints to the best geotagging site that you reference. This will be my '09 goal to understand!

vanhookc Think of it like any other meta-data. A blog post, for ex, can have "tags." So can a delicious bookmark. Those tags can tell you

"fun" or "tools" or "reading" - they could also be "California" or "Sacramento" or "corner of Main and Wabash" or right down to the exact

coordinates the picture is taken (or probably in this case, uploaded? A flaw with the geotagging on this system.)

In a photo they call this metadata EXIF information. Tells you the kind of camera, date, exposure, lens - geo info can also be attached.

Sites like Flickr read these tags, or EXIF, and can use it to sort or process certain photos differently-in this case putting them on a map!

Great @ √εlƒ144 I totally understand what tagging does in delicious and flickr. I manually do the tagging. But...

vdub144 I am slightly beginning to get tagging on a map. I am thinking this card from Santa will do the tagging for me???

No, the shortfall of this card is that the tagging will be to where the pictures are UPLOADED *NOT* to where they are taken.

The automatic upload feature is very cool, but I don't think I would spend the $$ to get the geotagging feature. Great idea, but you would

have to have WiFi everywhere for it to work.

Okay so I am beginning to understand this @√εlƒ144. Thank you!

i am so getting one of these! can't wait to play with it

I want to really bad. Just nervous about funds right now...

okay, so keep the conversation going whoever is lucky enough to have Santa deliver one of these!

Doh! I'm an idiot! Forgot to order, and now the price went back up! UGH!

WHAT!!!!!!! I just came out here to pull the address and show Santa. This is not fair!

Yeah, the middle one went up $20. That was the best one - direct to Flickr, without the Geotagging. (Which is flawed bc of above.)

Just to go on record, the explore model looks to be the best. It says it matches with geotagging. Do you think this is flawed in tagging?

Yikes, I may very well get one. But I really wish explore geotagged per location taken. Do you have to have bluetooth set up to transfer?

or does the camera card chip pick up the wireless of anywhere. I am trying to embrace the magic of this!!!!

It's nice to see there's more variety now too! We tried to buy them last August but couldn't find them anywhere.

appears to be WiFi. And if I'm not mistaken probably uses an IP lookup table to figure out where you are - like this: whatismyipaddress.com

And that misrepresents where I am by 8 miles, here at home. Moreover, as pointed earlier, you need WiFi access where you TAKE the pictures,

or your location will always be tagged as home, where you upload them. This isn't true GPS geotagging like a phone might do.

I don't think that's completely accurate - that it will geotag where the pics are uploaded

if it doesn't have a wifi to use for geotag, then it won't map it at all

and not all phones are any better. not all phones have true gps. old iphone = no, new iphone = yes.

it uses Skyhook, and if your own location is off, you can submit your own wifi location. now my house is always right