Nokia labs have released the Nokia Location Tagger application, which automatically geotags your photos taken from GPS-equipped mobile phones, and embeds the latitude and longitude of where the pic was taken inside the EXIF fields of the JPEG file containing your pic. This neat trick, which, to be frank, should have been installed in all Nokia phones with GPS right from the beginning, means that you can now search for pictures not only by tag name or filename, but also by the location in which they were taken.

Why is this important? Well, as digital cameras enable us to take literally thousands of pictures, finding them again becomes an almost impossible task, particularly when the majority of people never rename the pictures, and so are left with the default number that the phone gave the picture.

Sorting pictures by date is one option, but much better is the ability to sort your pictures by date and location. It then becomes trivially easy to find your pictures from last Christmas, for example, when you simply sort your pics according to date, and then see which ones were taken at your parents' house (or wherever you spent Christmas).

Better still, image hosting services such as Flickr let you search for images by location as well, as long as the information is contained within the image files, meaning Nokia's new application will soon lead to millions of new pics being geotargeted and freely searchable. Just imagine what you can do with all this info, when you combine millions of geotargeted pics with mapping applications like Google Maps or Google Earth.

You can download the Nokia Location Tagger on your S60 equipped phone from Nokia's Beta Labs.