2GB Eye-Fi Geo exclusive to Apple retail

I'm a long distence motorcycle rider and often find myself in extremely remote locations. Any idea how this would work in the middle of Montanta or Idaho or Canada?

Not sure what all the hoopla about this "being designed for the Mac" is... my other Eye-Fi cards work just fine with our Mac...

I've been using a geotagging Eye-fi for months and it works well enough for me. It let's me know whether a picture was taken at my house, at a friends, or at what restaurant. I really don't need much more accuracy than that. It has certainly been good enough to tag pictures from pool parties, birthdays, and the like.

From what I can tell it uses a very simple method. It records what the Mac addresses and signal strength of wi-fi base stations that are in range when you take the picture. Then during the uploading process it use that information to query a database to figure out where you are. It isn't exactly rocket science to be able to determine that if the two devices are in range they are probably near each other and the unknown one can then be updated to be in a general area. If you accumulate enough datapoints and combine that with information supplied from other devices that do both GPS and Wi-Fi geolocation, accuracy gets pretty good for most locations.

Don't know how much of an exclusive this is... I wanted to buy one for my Hawai'i trip tomorrow, but I called a couple of Apple Stores and they said they haven't stocked those in a while now. Somebody better tell these guys! haha

Whats the difference here with this card on the Eye-Fi Explore Wireless card? The explore says it does Geo-tagging too so is there really any difference?

Does anyone know if this model has RAW support? That's the gating factor for me. I can't find any info about supported file formats for this one.

HoudahGeo also makes short work of geotagging if you have a regular handheld GPS (that can record tracks).

Actually there are some pretty easy work arounds for this kind of thing.

My car has a gps. Before turning the car off, take a picture of the GPS coordinates.

jwfnia: Do you take your pictures in a wifi hotspot? Otherwise I don't see how it would work.

I agree with the grousers that it's important to point out the difference between Wifi-based location tagging and GPS-based location tagging. 1) GPS is more precise, and 2) GPS works where Wifi does not. The first point I could easily forgive: Wifi location tracking gets me close enough most of the time, although it is occasionally laughably far off. But the second point is going to be a major issue for a lot of people.

It looks to me (and I'd love to have someone who uses it correct or confirm) like you not only have to be in a Wifi hot spot, but you also have to have set up your card ahead of time to recognize and connect to that hot spot. I'm not sure how/if this would work with a typical, public hotspot that asks you to accept their TOS before continuing, let alone one that requires a log in.

Don't get me wrong. It looks neat, and I love the concept, and would love to have one of those cards, but the way it was presented made me think, "Wow, a simple and relatively cheap way to add GPS to a camera that doesn't have it built in." When, in reality, it seems like it would have limited functionality and would not, for me, work for 75% of the photos I take.

I've been using their 4 gig card for several months, and it almost always tags the pics correctly. I disagree with the grousers above.