Your iPhone GPS could be used to geotag photos taken by any digital camera, if a strange option spotted in iPhoto 09 is to be believed. Find out how you’ll be able to geotag photos with your iPhone GPS after the jump.

One iPhoto 09 user has stumbled across an intriguing dialogue box in Apple’s new software, which seems to offer the choice to add iPhone GPS data to photos in your library.

What’s the significance? It could mean that Apple is planning an iPhone GPS location application that charts your movement throughout the day, then syncs with the timestamps of your photos to allow for geotagging, even on digital cameras without a GPS module built in.

For real? The iPhone is certainly capable of it, though we do fear for its battery life with GPS left on all day, but whether anything will come of this is anybody’s guess. We’ll let you know if we figure it out.

Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (Via Tidbits)

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  • Anonymous Merchant

    GPS is on all the time anyway – why would it drain the battery? It doesn’t transmit anything… Back to GPS school for you.

  • http://nobless.se Mikael Grön

    @Anonymous Merchant: All processes running drain battery somehow. Storing data drains battery.. and so on…

    @Ben Sillis: How’d that user find that dialog in iPhoto ’09? I sure can’t find it…

  • George

    How hard would it be for someone to code a basic data logger app. Can be downloaded at the end of the day of shooting. Sync it with Jetphoto, and you have everything you need.

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