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GeoPhoto for Phones

Submitted by: branchcut
Created: Apr 6, 2007, 8:45 am

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The Elevator Pitch

For people who travel and take photos the mofoto is a product that automates the entire process of taking geotagged photos and uploading them to a hosting service.. Unlike other methods our product turns it into one-click..

The Idea

An application and a service, where the application runs on mobile phones and allows the user to easily take geotagged photos and automatically upload them to the photo hosting service that supports geotagged photos.

The business model: strike a deal with fickr where they offer a free unlimited version of the software to their premium paid users. For each premium paid user that requests a free license key, flickr pays CH a royalty fee.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Checking out http://gallery.jobem...a.org/map_about.html and thinking how the whole process of creating a site like this could be automated, all the way down to the capture device, eg, the gps enabled camera phone.

Comments Posted

micco Posted: April 6, 2007, 12:14 pm

Geotagging is very hot right now. Check out this collection of stories on the GeoRSS standard:
http://slashdot.org/...sid=07/04/06/1448246

thecougar Posted: April 8, 2007, 12:30 pm

Love it! Good to get in early with this, GPS on phones is going to be standard in a few short years and this would be a killer app.

Brenden Posted: April 17, 2007, 7:09 am

whould the phone use wifi or use its GSM internet? GSM expensive

anathema Posted: April 30, 2007, 3:23 am

This is a good idea; one that I also had when developing for the Gizmondo a while back. The application could tag with CellID where GPS is not available. Maybe it could be combined initally with an existing photo-blogging site initially to cut down on server side develpment. I would be happy to put together a client application prototype for this if you turn it into a business.

By the way I think you should remove the word 'ordeal' from the pitch.I don't think this should be an ordeal at all.

branchcut Posted: May 2, 2007, 1:03 pm

RE: what about Shozu? (from anathema message)

I gotta admit, Shozu seems to have a pretty strong offering. Looking at it from a consumer/user point of view -- the only I _dont_ like about them is the fact that they seem to force you to use GPRS (carriers data plan) for the upload. There is a _huge_ number of people that dont have unlimited data plans, or any data plans at all.

Bottom line, besides having room for multiple players in the market, I think a CH offering could differentiate itself by having an offering that allows alternative photo upload methods that dont require a data plan.

Wi-fi is the super slickest method .. its fast, its free .. I mean, you cant ask for anything better. Many people have wi-fi in their homes, so uploading right from their camera phone to flickr/zooomr/etc would be a killer app. Add GPS geotagging capabilities .. its even cooler. Yes, I realize not that many phones have it yet, but I see it as an unstoppable trend.

The other upload possibility which is not as slick -- but currently available to a huge market -- is bluetooth upload. The only "bugger" is it requires the user to run something on their PC. But if its well packaged and an easy install .. people will do it! This bluetooth "repeater" could actually grow into more than just something for (possibly geotagged) photos, and could be useful for other things.

E115 Posted: May 3, 2007, 11:18 am

Move quickly, this will be done in the blink of an eye.

Hackday featured some GeoCoding handbag recently, which basically done this except with a handbag!

branchcut Posted: May 3, 2007, 4:30 pm

Agreed, this stuff is red hot and the competition is fast and fierce. Vote it up and help get the idea on ideawarz!

branchcut Posted: May 7, 2007, 9:11 am

RE: What is the revenue model? (private message)

Strike a deal with fickr where they give an unlimited version of the software to their premium paid users. For each premium paid user that registers for a license key, flickr pays CH a royalty fee. Additionally, flickr will offer a free version to its users that has limited functionality .. maybe it will only be able to upload 25 photos per month or something like that.

The above model could also work w/ other photo hosting services like zooomr.com, etc. If CH comes up with their own photo hosting service, this product would be part of their offering.

anathema Posted: June 1, 2007, 5:43 am

I just returned from vacation in Rhodes where this would have been really useful. Although there are applications which geotag and upload pictures to flicker as you take them (Shozu) I had no data coverage in Greece and was unable to do so. If the pictures were stored in a geotagged form (in the exif data?) I could have uploaded them when I got home. As it is, all geotag data has been lost. Let's do it.

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