Photograph location stamp
View Patent ↗A camera includes a feature that associates meaningful information with a photograph to indicate where the photograph was taken. The camera includes equipment that determines a physical position associated with an image. An application uses geographic data to determine a municipality, or other administrative or governmental area, in which the physical position is located and associates data indicating the municipality, or other administrative or governmental area, with the image.
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a computer program that performs a method of using a remotely located map service server, the method comprising:
obtaining data from a camera removably connected to a computer platform, the obtained data indicating geographic coordinates associated with each of a plurality of pictures taken by the camera;
transmitting the geographic coordinates associated with each of the plurality of pictures to the remotely located map service server to request a municipality name corresponding to the geographic coordinates associated with each of the plurality of pictures, the remotely located map service server including data that indicates whether a landmark is observable by a person from specific geographic coordinates; and
if the transmitted geographic coordinates associated with at least one of the plurality of pictures are determined to be coordinates from which the landmark is observable via a person's view based on the data included in the remotely located map service server, receiving, from the remotely located map service server, data indicating a name of the landmark.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the camera is removably connected to the computer platform with a USB cable.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the camera is removably connected to the computer platform with a wireless connection.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adding the name of the landmark to the at least one of the plurality of pictures.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adding the name of the landmark and the municipality name to the at least one of the plurality of pictures.
6. A method of using a remotely located map service server computer readable, the method comprising:
obtaining data from a camera removably connected to a computer platform, the obtained data indicating geographic coordinates associated with each of a plurality of pictures taken by the camera;
transmitting geographic coordinates associated with each of the plurality of pictures to the remotely located map service server to request a municipality name corresponding to the geographic coordinates associated with each of the plurality of pictures, the remotely located map service server including data that indicates whether a landmark is observable by a person from said geographic coordinates; and
if the transmitted geographic coordinates associated with at least one of the plurality of pictures are determined to be coordinates from which the landmark is observable via a person's view based on the data included in the remotely located map service server, receiving, from the remotely located map service serve, data indicating a name of the landmark.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
adding the name of the landmark to the picture.
8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
adding the name of the landmark and the municipality name to the picture.
9. The method of claim 6 wherein the camera is removably connected to the computer platform with a USB cable.
10. The method of claim 6 wherein the camera is removably connected to the computer platform with a wireless connection.