apart from the obvious - taking photos of signs and maps - what else do you folk do?
i have had a bit of a problem with the last few pics from two years ago

i usually scribble everything in my diary as i go but there is a gap im trying to figure out
i dont have a date on my pics for some reason but of course being digital theyre easy to keep in the right chronological order
i wear something different every day so i know it's 'another day' in the pic
i also scribble down details that help me decipher what's in the pic...eg the name of a ship in the photo or statue etc
how do you organise the information as you snap away
i hate not knowing exactly what ive photographed!

Nowadays I geotag everything - then I can see on Google Maps exactly where a photo was taken.
But previously I just checked the date in the Exif and compared it to my notes/memory for that date. Sometimes I would do a search online to be sure I had the right name for the right building.

Have you checked the Exif for your photos for a date? or did you work on them in a program that doesn't keep the Exif data?

Hi Hetismij - can you explain about google geotag please!

Google isn't necessary - but it's one good way to display your photos. Here's how it works:

Your digital camera time-and-date stamps each photo as it is taken. By adding a GPS log having a record of your position from second to second, you can match up the two and transfer the location data to the photos.* Then when you display a picture, the latitude and longitude are available for whatever use the album software wants to use them for.

Here are some of my pictures with location data at the bottom (hit "next image&quot:

http://www.boringstreet.com/boringst...p?image_id=251

* Some newer cameras have the GPS function built in, saving you the trouble of merging a separate log into the photo files.

This Geo Tagging concept is fascinating. I am bookmarking this for future reference.

Does this mean you have to carry around a GPS?

"dont have a data on my pics"?

hmmm...even the cheapest digital camera I have ever used recorded the time and date the picture was taken provided that:

- I have set the date/time on the camera.
- I transfered pictures to my PC (XP) and enabled "date picture taken" in my folder.

To do geotag, I think you need a GPS of some sort with you:

- a std GPS like TomTom, Garmin
- a special GPS like Sony GPS-CS1
- or a camera with built-in GPS such as Ricoh 500SE

Yes to geotag you need a GPS logger of some sort. Some GPS navigation devices function as loggers also, as do some PDA type phones. I just use a small GPS logger which I carry in my pocket, then add the GPS data to the Exif later.

lanejohann, have you tried clicking on properties on your photos to see the Exif info - that will give you the date and maybe help jog your memory. The only reason I can think of that it wouldn't be there is if you have resized the photos for the web without keeping the originals (tsk tsk) and didn't have retain EXIF clicked.

My husband, a professional computer geek, does it the old fashioned way--he carries a little notebook and writes down what each picture is.

bookmarking

Robespierre, what a fantastic feature. Thanks for sharing this info.

My older camera actually had a memo function. So after taking a picture, I could record myself saying what the picture was of.

My current camera doesn't have that and I miss it.

Now I mostly go the street sign and building sign route.

Here's a link to a page on Geotagging from B&H (large NY photo store):
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/n...Geotagging.jsp

Currently, I do it the old-fashioned way as well, writing it down. (Heck, this is a lot easier with digital than film since I can look at the photos each night and not wait for several days/weeks.) However, I seem to have a good head for remembering where I took photos. (One trick, take an overall shot of the scene to help identifying later.) I have been considering starting to geotag and that link has some interesting devices for a reasonable price. There should also be a way to do this with a GPS enabled phone, but I haven't tried with my wife's Blackberry.

I'm pretty good at remembering where photos were taken too, but having visited the Salinas Pueblo Missions in New Mexico, all in a short space of time they kind of blurred one into the other - so my geotagging came in very handy! Also with a couple of views I took I was thinking where was that? Thanks to the geotag I now know that they were taken up between the Bears Ears in Utah.
I use a Qstarz logger. The Blackberry should be able to do it too.

I like the free download program from Google called "Picasa". It will look at your computer and organize all your pictures in all drive by date and time. Then it lets you edit size, redeye, tilt and a lot of other stuff.

The last couple of trips I took my laptop with me, so that I could see and process photos as I went. I could see what worked, what didn't work (and get rid of them immediately), clear off the memory stick, and make notes while everything was still fresh, and maybe send something to the folks back home.

Generally, I did this in the evening when I was back in the hotel room for the night. DH would read (or sleep), and it really didn't take me that long. Plus it was often really nice just to relive the moments...

I know that a lot of people don't like lugging a laptop around, but unless it's just a short trip, it goes with me.

I find it helpful to take a picture of a sign wherever possible. Street sign, placard on a building, etc.

Like others mentioned I also like to process picture on my laptop every day or 2 - it's fun for the family to do a mini slide show in the evening and names of places are usually fresh enough to encode into the picture file name.

My digital I can create "folders" so I create one for each city I'm going to be in and that's where the pics of those locations go. That coupled with my travel diary seems to work for me.