How to capture image view direction (heading data)
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 30, 2006 05:55 PM
This sounds interesting, but I'd like to capture one more bit of data.. direction camera was pointing when the image was taken.
Often when hiking in the mountains, I'll get some nice shots of mountain walls, canyons, etc. But when looking at them later, it is sometimes hard to determine exactly what map feature corresponds to the photo.
With the GPS coordinates I could easily get the right map location, but it would be nice to also have recorded the direction (azimuth) that the camera/gps was pointing at that moment.
I know some GPS units (ie. Garmin 76S) have internal electronic compass that could supply this data, (provided you can keep alignment between camera/receiver). But are there any digital cameras available now that would also provide this?
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How to capture image view direction (heading data)
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 30, 2006 05:55 PMOften when hiking in the mountains, I'll get some nice shots of mountain walls, canyons, etc.
But when looking at them later, it is sometimes hard to determine exactly what map feature corresponds to the photo.
With the GPS coordinates I could easily get the right map location, but it would be nice to also have recorded the direction (azimuth) that the camera/gps was pointing at that moment.
I know some GPS units (ie. Garmin 76S) have internal electronic compass that could supply this data, (provided you can keep alignment between camera/receiver).
But are there any digital cameras available now that would also provide this?
Richard
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