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Story: Move over, Google: Here's MSN Virtual Earth

Posted by: Samuel, UK (Tuesday 26 July 2005, 12:01 PM)

I think that the Locate Me option that uses Wi-Fi would be really useful as a cheap GPS for digital cameras. Take the Kodak EasyShare One cam that has Wi-Fi built in allowing the user to send images over the web or syncing wirelessly with a computer.

If the cam could use Wi-Fi to locate itself then it could put the location data in the meta-data, and Wi-Fi is more accurate than GPS at the mo!!

P.S. even better would be if the cam inbedded the co-ordinates so when the pics are on the computer somehow Windows, for example, could tap into the Virtual Earth's database and show you the 45 degree 'Eagle Eye' view of where it is in real life!!!