Wolfgang Roellig recently attended mac at camp, hailed as “the biggest Mac community event in Europe”, in Naumburg (Saale), Germany. In numerous workshops with themes of Apple, Adobe and other software, newbies as well as experienced users broaden their knowledge in various areas.

“This year they offered many topics about photography and geotagging, so I was able to use my skills in these areas,” said Roellig.

“I used my Fujifilm S2Pro, a FinePix E550 and the iPhone 3G with MotionX-GPS. I used MotionX to track photo excursions and mark the spots we took photos, then discussed the route, reviewed our waypoints and tagged our images. I showed your app to many iPhone users and they were suprised of the capabilities and the intuitive user interface of MotionX-GPS. I also explained that I use it nearly every day when I’m cycling, biking with my Yamaha Dragstar, or walking.”

Wolfgang and the other participants use a free software application for the Mac called myTracks for geotagging their photos. If you’re interested in trying this out, download myTracks and follow these simple steps:

1. Set your digital camera’s clock as closely to your iPhone’s time as possible.
2. Acquire a signal using MotionX-GPS.
3. Start the MotionX Track Recorder at the same time you take your first photo with your digital camera.
4. Take a walk, stopping occasionally to take a photo.
5. When you’re done taking photos, stop the MotionX Track Recorder and email the track to yourself.
6. Add your photos and the GPX file to myTracks. Your track is shown on a map from OpenStreetMap, and your photos are linked to the track so you can directly see where you took your photos. Locations can also be written to the EXIF tags of your image files (geotagging).

HoudaGeo is another software package that enables photo geotagging with a few additional options that are worth checking out.