"There's no doubt we'll see cameras with built-in GPS within the next two years, possibly sooner," said Chuck Westfall, technical adviser for the professional products marketing division at Canon, the world's largest camera maker. "The desirability of that feature is quite clear."
CNet News.com - Underexposed Blog - Cameras with built-in geotagging on horizon - February 12, 2008
Above blog posting talks a lot about Air Semiconductor's Airwave1, the product site says
Airwave1 is a complete GPS L1 receiver and it is the first product to benefit from Air’s Always-On™ GPS technology.
Airwave1 is designed to support geotagging in digital cameras. To support this application, location information needs to be provided instantly when the user takes a photograph. With Airwave1 inside, the camera is continuously aware of its location
According to the Underexposed posting, it does this by continuously running in a low power
it goes into a low-power mode, even when the camera is off, that keeps track of its position with a very rough accuracy of about 100 meters
The posting also discusses the Geotate technology and the (apparently unconfirmed) possibility of it showing up in September in the E1050 (as a second model maybe, which would explain why the E1050 documentation says "optional GPS accessory").
via Geotagging Flickr group
Previously:
February 2, 2008 Jobo and Geotate digital camera GPS approaches
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