If you are RV'ing full time you know that you are probably taking a lot of pictures of places you visit and things you see. We just wanted to share a nice feature that we have started to use for our digital pictures. 

My wife was given a great Nikon D3100 Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera and a Jobo GPS attachment for her retirement gift so that as we take pictures it captures the actual GPS coordinates of the location. When photos are edited  and put into a photo album in the Google Picasa Web system....the information is merged and you can view the pictures plus the locations on the map showing where they were taken. Then on our travel web site we post an entry about where we traveled and then provide a link to our photo album so people can see exactly where we were.

Mary plans on creating all our photo albums from now on using this feature. It will be a great aid for us 20 years from now when we try to remember where we were when we took the pictures. In fact...at my age...it may help next week.

Thanks for the reminder. I made an assumption that you try to never post personal information and that would include GPS information of friends or family. We were planning to use the GPS tagging for our scenic and travel pictures.

Privacy is a tough thing to keep with all the tools available on the Internet. It's a little easier for us with no home base because we won't inadvertanly let people know where our unprotected home is while we travel. We even make it a point to avoid indicating which campground we are currently in simply to keep it a little more private.

I teach a number of university technology classes which deal with privacy issues that we face today with our personal information and the widespread use of mass media. It can be a little scary and people need to be informed.

Thanks for the comments. 

Glad you understand. There is very little privacy on the Internet and people need to understand it. Right now a father is showing his daughter how little privacy she had on Facebook with a Youtube video with the video going viral. GEO tagging has its place and you have a good reason to do it. It is also reasonable to GEO tag family photos when you are all somewhere else, like a Disney property, and you post them afterward. In many years of posting my campsite location I haven't had anyone but friends try to find me.

(The viral video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU and it is not linked so you have to work at it to see it, but I knew that if I mentioned it I might as well put the link in now since someone will ask.)

EDIT by Moderator:  Activated link.  Caution: some language in the video may be considered inappropriate, but the lesson is invaluable.  Also, the video runs for over 8 minutes, just in case that would affect your bandwidth for streaming.  Terry

Not to put a damper on the idea GEO tagging, but I have to agree with Bill on this one.  We work for a state law enforcement agency and during one of our training sessions, an agent got up and showed us in detail just how easy it is for predators to glean information about people.

While the GEO tagging would be good for scenic shots and such, I wouldn't use it all the time either.

Terry

We saw that video yesterday and thought it was excellent. We raised 4 kids and each of them probably had a sense of entitlement somewhere along the line. However they have turned into some wonderful adults who are all self-sufficient and realize what it means to work hard.

I would have used a 9mm on the laptop myself!!!

Caution:  Comment from an Old Fogey!!!

In addition to using a weapon on the laptop, I might have applied a hand to an appropriate part of the child's anatomy.

Gotta love folks with cowboy hats.  Now that we are in an RV, I really don't have room for one anymore.

Terry