Location Tagger has been updated to version 1, Beta 2. Among the improvements we can find: support for more devices and the addition of the “Show on map” feature. This will allow you to select Options, Show on map menu from the Logs tab to show the location of the picture in Nokia Maps. This feature works only on S60 3rd FP1 devices with Nokia Maps installed, such as Nokia N95. They also fixed  a bug where in certain situations the device’s battery is drained pretty quickly. But the most notable improvement is how Location Tagger deals with losing or not getting a GPS lock.

If you take a picture and there’s no GPS signal, the picture will be tagged with the last known good position in the last 1 hour. The previous version used a pretty much useless 10 minutes setting.  If there isn’t a recorded GPS position within the last 1 hour the picture will be put in a queue until timeout. You can set the timeout value from the Settings menu. If your device is able to lock the position before timeout, all pictures in the queue will be tagged with this new position.

A few days ago I wrote this rant here, about my worries with the whole Geotagging thing and this is a very good step in the right direction. But I still see room for improvements. First of all, how about clearly indicating which pictures got tagged and which didn’t like in Gallery or Share Online.  And most importantly we need a backup for those cases where you can only dream of getting a GPS signal. Location Tagger’s way of dealing with the lack of a GPS signal is good and should be ported to the Sports Tracker, as Sports Tracker has a habit of not uploading the pictures that didn’t get tagged. Tagging pictures with the last GPS location could be a temporary relief. But I think Nokia should start looking into the ability to calculate your position based on cellular towers. This is something that Google Mobile Maps for S60 has been doing for some time now on these very same Nokia phones. For this reason I don’t see why Nokia could add this feature to Location Taggger, Sports Tracker and Nokia Maps. This would be perfect for those situation where you will never get a GPS signal yet you want to be able to geotag your images. A good example would be a party in a basement. What do you guys think?

Via: AllAboutSymbian