Creating images containing GPS data
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Classifying your photos begins as soon as you get home from vacation. A good approach is to create a virtual map showing the stages of your trip embellished by photos of specific locations. With the right know-how and tools, you can quickly create eye-catching results.
To assemble the map with images, you need the proper information, such as timestamps, geographical longitude and latitude data, and viewing angles and directions. Linking objects with this data is called geotagging, which makes it easier to work with media data.
Exif Supplemental Data
Information for geotagging comes from digital camera or smartphone sensors. A GPS module is already a standard feature of many mobile devices. You can purchase a digital camera with GPS for a few hundred dollars. The sensor data that the devices collect usually ends up automatically in the Exchangeable Image File Format (Exif) file for each photo [1].
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