Nokia Beta Labs has released a new application called Location Tagger for S60 3rd Edition mobile devices. It can automatically tag pictures and images captured from your phone camera with your current location’s geographical coordinates from an integrated or external bluetooth GPS receiver. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map.

To tag pictures with GPS coordinates, you can simply use the built-in Camera application. Press the Camera button of your device to take pictures as usual. When Nokia Location Tagger is running in the background, you will see small icon at the top left corner of Camera’s view finder.

Nokia Location Tagger tries to tag pictures to the last “known” coordinates in the last 10 minutes. Launching Camera application will activate Nokia Location Tagger; which will initialize GPS module. You can also bring Nokia Location Tagger window to the foreground to initialize GPS module. The softwware also has a time-out feature (by default, it is 5 minutes). If there is no picture until time-out time, the GPS module will be turned off. This setting can be customized from the settings of the software.

Location Tagger has been tested with Nokia N95, N95 8GB, N82, and E90 using the integrated GPS.

Click here to download Nokia Location tagger for S60 v3.