Update: As it appears, Shozu runs secretly in the background 24/7, thus being a real battery drainer.
So before putting Shozu on you N95, please read the comments!
First a quick summary:
GeoTagging:
Geotagging, also known as geocoding, is the insertion of latitude and longitude data into a file or document, such as a digital photograph. In the same way that the time and date are encoded into digital photos, data that records the location where the picture was taken can also be added automatically using existing standard file formats like JPEG.
Ingredients for GeoTagging:
- Camera [on Nokia N95: check!]
- GPS [on Nokia N95: check!]
- link between camera and GPS [on Nokia N95: check!]
So, if we would like to GeoTag the pictures we take with the N95 and, for instance, upload them into Flickr… what do we need to do?
Somehow I missed a very good blogpost at Digital Urban about GeoTagging (ow, I was in Brazil at that day… that explains):
Initial Set Up
1) First off go to ShoZu.com - Shozu is freely available software that allows you to both geotag photographs on your N95 and upload to a number of online services, in our case Flickr.Sign up with the site and select the Nokia N93 as your phone (the N95 is not yet listed). You will be asked to set up a user name and password as well as your mobile number. Once registered ShoZu will send a text along with a link to download the software. We downloaded via a Wi-Fi link to make sure we didn’t incur any phone charges;
2) Install ShoZu on your N95 and login to your account using the username and password you set up. This will authenticate your account allowing you to log back into the web based service and set up a number of destinations to upload your photographs;
3) To enable uploading to Flickr go to the web page and selecting the ‘Share It’ tag. Now simply go through the process of allowing ShoZu the required rights to upload to your account.
This completes the set up ShoZu in terms of services, we now simply need to turn on GPS tagging;
4) Open ShoZu on your N95 and go to: Options/View and then the images tag which is indicated by a film strip icon. The 4th option is GPS Tagging, switch this to On.
Capturing and Uploading
1) Open either Nokias ‘Maps’ or the ‘Sports Tracker’ application and make sure you are getting a GPS fix, we use Sports Tracker as it allows us to additionally upload our route to Google Earth/Maps;2) Start taking your pictures, with ShoZu installed each photograph will have a location tag written into its EXIF information.
3) Open ShoZu and select Share-It/All files, this will display a list of your photographs. Select the image your want to upload and click Options, this displays the choice to Send to Flickr. Select send and your image will be uploaded, again we uploaded via Wi-Fi to minimise any data charges.
Your images will now be available on your Flickr page and automatically geotagged. Within Flickr you can choose to view by map which opens a Yahoo Map page, we prefer Googles My Maps options:
1) At the bottom of your Flickr Photos page you will see a RSS Feed Icon and the Feed link - Right click on this link and copy the link location;
2) Login into your Google Maps account and paste the feed location into the search box - now add the following to the end of the paste ‘&georss=true’ (without the ‘)
3) Running the search will display your photographs from the N95 on Google Maps via Flickr, to add them to My Maps simple click on each icon and choose ‘Save to My Maps’
This describes everything you need to know… so I will not any more… 
Try and enjoy! (I will be setting this up this weekend, results to follow shortly)
Comments 11
I would NOT suggest putting ShoZu on your n95. I had it installed for a week and had nothing but memory leaks and crashes. I thought it was the phone till someone suggested that i uninstall shozu and now it’s really solid. Shozu is nowhere near optimized or ready for the n95.
Posted 12 May 2007 at 2:50 pm ¶The N95 already has a Flickr uploader on it. Can’t it support Geo tagging?
Posted 12 May 2007 at 3:37 pm ¶@ Ricky: Hmm, this might explain why my battery died AGAIN last night while having 4 (!) bars before going to sleep (slept for about 8 hours)
@ Steve: As far as I know, the “online services” of the gallery do not have an option to include GPS data. That is why Shozu comes in handy: it acts as the missing actual linking between camera and GPS.
::Jan uninstalling Shozu again::
Posted 12 May 2007 at 3:46 pm ¶Ooooh!
I was uninstalling Shozu… this is what happened:
- My N95 showed no applications running
- menu - applications - Shozu (no click, just highlight)
- I pressed C
- Alert: Application cannot be removed while it is still running, do you want to close now?
Wow… this means the app is running secretly????
Posted 12 May 2007 at 3:52 pm ¶Jan,
Yes, ShoZu runs a system app in the background 24/7. That is how it is able to ask if you want to upload a picture as soon as you take it. It is also why it causes so many memory errors.
ShoZu would be good if they could find someway for that background app to startup when you started the camera, and then shut down when the camera is closed.
Posted 12 May 2007 at 4:08 pm ¶Where is the forum? I get an error on their home page and the forum page.
Posted 13 May 2007 at 12:59 pm ¶Hi,
When I delete the pictures from my n95 they all delete even from the albums.
so if I like to show my albums with my dog…
it’s not there anymore.
What to do?
What a nice machine the n95!!
I like it very much.
greetings Jan Willem
Posted 13 May 2007 at 1:07 pm ¶N95.. So cool and so uncool. A lot of gagets inside but my battery dies in 1 day. Its not that I talk much but it dies anyway. And if I try to use some of my applications such as wireless or camera, I am not sure that it will hold on till evening. IMHO the battery really sux on n95, but thats the only problem I guess.
Posted 14 May 2007 at 10:35 am ¶I’ve tried ShoZu and found that it does NOT put any information into the EXIF of the images, so it is useless for me! Hovever it prevents me from using a couple of other things on the phone because of too little memory left after running ShoZu.
Posted 14 May 2007 at 1:47 pm ¶I haventīt noticed anything buggy after I installed ShoZu?
Posted 15 May 2007 at 9:27 pm ¶Hey N95ers
It seems you guys are having trouble with ShoZu and your N95, the cop out response is ShoZu does not officially support the N95 yet, there are loads of questions in this thread and as I started responding to them I though I would create a posting on out forum to try and help explain some of them.
http://forum.shozu.com/showthread.php?tid=545
Hopefully this will clear a few things up and we are trying very hard to get an official N95 version out, we have about 10 people in the office using them as their personnel phones and are working through the issues so please be patient.
Cheers
Manny
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