Will the iPhone Take Geotagging Mainstream?

Geotagging your pictures (which means adding GPS co-ordinate data to an image whenever you snap a pic with your phone) allows you to add them to all sorts of mapping applications like Yahoo! Maps or Google Earth. However, for many of us with GPS-enabled camera phones, it’s simply to much of a technological challenge to make it all work.

For example if you own an HTC Tytn II, this is what you have to do to enable your GPS-camera:

Open any registry editor, then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\ and in the folder P9 change “enabled” from 0 to 1. Now new option GPS Photo will appear in the menu.

Most people would have been lost at the word “registry editor”. Why should such a cool feature be so horribly hidden?

Well, if rumors surrounding the next generation iPhone are true, then expect “location services” to include GPS-based Google mapping, along with geotagging. If the images above are real, then it looks to make ths feature a lot easier than it is for most users.

Do you wish new technology was easier to use? Let us know if you’ve ever struggled to get GPS working on your phone.