Hello together,

Adobe has done a great job with the geotagging module in Lightroom 4! Thank you!

Feature Wish: LR Geotagging Module should show show Heading (Compass Direction)  on the Map

What I miss is the option to show the image direction (heading) on the map. There are more cameras and geotaggers that write the image direction to the EXIF of JPEG and RAW.

The best implementation I know so far for presentation of the compass heading is in the freeware geosetter.  It uses the focal length to calculate a "triangle of view". Zooming will cause a slim triangel, wide angle a wide angle .

Here is a - low quality - video for better understanding. It shows quite good what I mean:

It would be great to have the focus distance also involved. But this seems to be difficult as most cams do not write it standardized to the EXIF

What else could Heading be good for?

There are many ideas for usage of compass headings. Here two ideas that have been prototyped by university students:

1. Filtering photo databases according to postition of the sun

Just find all pictures with dawn light from the left. All with front light. All with ...

(Source and explanation in German)

2. Generate Proposals for naming the photographed Object for Semi-Automatic-Tagging

The user gets offers for objects that are in the angel of view and can use them for tagging. He just checks those offer he wants to be safed with the photo.

(Source and explanation in German)

Are there Cameras with GPS + Compass (Heading)?

yes, at the moment I count 20 Cameras and Geotaggers. And by the dates you can see the number ist starting to grow really fast. In the beginning (2008 it was only Solmeta for Nikon and Ricoh). The boom starts 2011 and 2012:

DSLR and Medium Format

Nikon DSLR:

• Solmeta Geotagger N2/Pro/N3  (since 2008!)
• Dawntech M3-DC Digital Compass (03/2012)

Canon DSLR

• Canon GP-E1(05/2012)
• Canon GP-E2 (05/2012)

For Pentax DSLR and Medium Format

• Pentax O-GPS1 (2011)

Compact/Bridge:

• Nikon Coolpix AW100 Outdoor-Cam GPS + Compass (09/2011)
• Nikon Coolpix S9300 suoperzoom with GPS + Compass (03/2012)

Olympus

• Olympus Tough TG-1 Outdoor with GPS + Compass (06/2012)

Ricoh

• Ricoh Caplio G500SE + GPS/Compass unit
• Ricoh Caplio G700SE with Ricoh GP-1 GPS-unit (07/2010)   

Samsung

• Samsung WB850F GPS + Compass(04/2012)   

Sony

• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V GPS + compass (2010)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX7V GPS + compass (02/2011)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX9V GPS + compass (04/2011)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX100V GPS und Kompass (2011)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX100V GPS + Compass  (2011)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX200V  GPS + compass (03/2012)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX10V  GPS + Compass (04/2012)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX20V  GPS + Compass (05/2012)
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V  GPS + Compass (03/2012)

(source: Actual Lists of all cameras, DSLR, Medium Format, compact, EVIL with integrated GPS or GPS-interface)

Has anyone more Cool Ideas about Compass Heading?

Whow else, but me, dreams of such features?

Please reply, to show, that I am not alone with my wish. Thanks!

Cheers!

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I someone needs example pics with heading in the EXIF, feel free to contact me

Message was edited by: MrGeotagger Removed some links that came in by copy n paste. Sorry folks!