Invent This Product

Sounds like a really good idea, actually. Even without the GPS tagging, you could input your travel itinerary and, based on that, build the scrapbook using the date/time stamps on the picture.<p>Dangit. Now my mind will be occupied by this while I facilitate my next meeting.

I am really looking forward to when GPS is included in most point-n-click cameras. This idea is brilliant, but nothing compared to what can happen when you look at what might happen.

In the .NET Rocks episode I mentioned in my other comment, Scott Stanfield mentioned a small, headless GPS receiver that you can attach to your camera. It has software that matches timestamps on pictures to the GPS location history and tags each picture with coordinates. It's a slick way to solve the problem while keeping your existing camera.

If the iPhone had a better built-in camera, I could totally see this happening with iPhoto. I guess the credit card thing is pretty easy to do if your bank allows statement export as XML or CSV (mine does).

OurDoings already auto-organizes by date, but don't expect an animated car moving along a map any time soon. The first GPS-related feature I'm likely to implement will be a privacy option that removes GPS info if the coordinates fall within a certain range (presumably near your house.)

What's the fun in that product? Half the fun is having the vacation and then the other half is telling the stories later and arguing with your friends/family over how it <i>really</i> happened.<p>I do like the GPS camera idea, I could imagine that as an integrated Flip-like product.

I would totally use something that used facial recognition to automatically tag all my facebook or flickr photos with my friends names/profiles.<p>Anyone here with facial recognition experience care to chime in?

I've done this with a few of my hikes (just the GPS-&#62;photo stuff) by cross-correlating based on timestamp. It's not that hard: <a href="http://technomancy.us/92" rel="nofollow">http://technomancy.us/92</a>

"The GPS from your camera would provide the approximate location"<p>I thought GPS had great accuracy?

The day my family tries to make me watch a detailed replay of their vacation to Buttfuck, Ohio on google maps is the day I burn all my technology and try to live with the Amish.<p>Giving this to the people who actually use it is like giving a drum kit to the kid of a friend. Everyone is going to hate it but the person using it. Never mind what dilbert dude wants, who wants to be constantly asked to look at crap like that? Isn't their enough distracting debris in our lives.<p>Invent something to solve a real problem.