2008 is the year of GPS Cameras! Now you will be able to know exactly what place the beautiful sunset picture belongs, that too without even putting the slightest strain on your memory. Sirf Technology is one of the first companies to have produced the GPS chip. And going by the words of Kanwar Chadha, its founder, most of the camera makers are seriously considering cameras enabled with GPS technology.
Infact, the company is coming up with a new technology in GPS that will enable a device to ascertain its location within 10 seconds of being switched on. The technology through which location information will be added to photographs is being called as Geotagging. Though critics are worried about the ‘loss of privacy’ considerations, the end-consumers seem to be quite delighted by the news of the latest development.
They will no longer have to rack their brains as to which of numerous churches, they visited on a trip to England, is there in a particular photo. Their GPS-enabled camera will serve all such needs. On top of that, finding photos of a particular place will also become very easy, with this new location-telling technology. However, if you put up such pictures on the social networking sites, people will very easily come to know whether or not you have written your true location.
Infact, it will become very easy for others to know your exact address and misuse the information. Though there are a few cameras with GPS right now, the technology is such that you need to have your camera switched on all the time so that it remains enabled, leading to battery troubles. All said and done, no technology is without any repercussions and the new GPS enabled cameras seem to be no exception to the rule!
Infact, it will become very easy for others to know your exact address and misuse the information. Though there are a few cameras with GPS right now, the technology is such that you need to have your camera switched on all the time so that it remains enabled, leading to battery troubles. All said and done, no technology is without any repercussions and the new GPS enabled cameras seem to be no exception to the rule!
