I've long been interested in getting some metadata on my photographs and I've tried several things over the years, but with a combination of a locational database called TrackMe and some scripts, I'm about there!

I started a while back by having the script which downloads my photos from my memory card also prompt me for some basic information, such as Location, Subjects, Description, and GPS Coordinates.  This information was written to a text file and copied around with the images.  Better than nothing.

After that I was able to use a locational database called TrackMe which stores data from several inputs and would basically know anywhere I am with a resolution as fine as several seconds to as coarse as 30 minutes.  By corelating the date and time in my photographs with data from TrackMe I was able to geotag my images in an automated fashion.  The accuracy of the location could be approximate if I was not specifically running my GPS to store data or it could be within feet of the actual photo location.  I also wrote a program which could manually geotag images without TrackMe data available.  Both programs wrote directly to my images, not exactly an ideal plan as any modification to the original image potentially could cause corruption or data the image or metadata created by the camera.

With the introduction of Bibble 5 and the ability to pull in what are called XMP Sidecars (basically metadata associated with another file but in a separate file) I was able to not only stop writing directly to my files but also easily able to add much IPTC data to my photographs, such as my name as Creator and Copyright holder, my website URL, etc.  And of course continued to write the GPS data.  I've also added the ability to tag subjects in these XMP sidecars so that much of the metadata I want to maintain in my photography is now easily done and for the most part automatically added except for a few bits of information at download time.

So now my RAW images are not only geotagged and IPTC tagged, when I process them through Bibble and output jpg's for my website or for printing those jpg's are also tagged with all of the same information.  This allows me to upload them to Flickr or even my own IDS image website and they are automatically mapped.  Hopefully in the future I will have some additional ways to view my photographs in regards to location, such as seeing all images within a mile of an image, etc.  And soon I hope that my IPTC subject tagging will help me with KPhotoAlbum to automatically tag images there, reducing my manual tagging work greatly.

Over time I might add more IPTC data, but for now I'm very pleased with how easy it is to add all of this great data to my photographs and know that they're properly attributed and geotagged.

They manage to screw up every order, period.  Bent, missing, scratched, or mislabeled prints were bad enough.  Now they're not bothering to upload all the images sent to them on CD/DVD media.  When asked how are they going to fix it, they simply respond "Sorry, we can't do anything".  Screw them.  I'm using my last 5x7 bulk prints remaining and moving onto someone else.