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Google should rename to Geogle

Published by Bruce on February 12, 2009 in Quicklinks. 3 responses

Google seems to be in a geo-frenzy, with the recent release of Google Latitude, and a Google Earth update that supports GPS receivers (formerly a 'Plus' feature; works with my NMEA-compatible GlobalSat BT-335) plus historical imagery, ocean floor topography, Martian and annotated virtual Earth tours. Now Google Labs offer Location in Signature, the IP-based auto-detection of your Gmail posting location. Not without potential downsides for the dishonest (see example) although it can't tell if you're in the bathroom or lounge; in my testing it had a 16km inaccuracy—making cell signal triangulation on my iPhone 2G seem useful.

Geotagging comes to Nikon ViewNX

Published by Bruce on February 9, 2009 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Nikon ViewNX 1.2.0 is a free download (56.6MB .dmg) and doesn't require a Nikon (e.g. works with iPhone images). Manual geotagging is limited to placing a pin on a Google Map (you can't search the map). ViewNX recognizes automatically geotagged images (embedded at capture, added via a track logger, etc.) and handles geotagging of Nikon's raw (NEF) format as well as JPEG. To view location metadata (indicated by a globe icon), select an image and click it's pin to reveal an info window. Reverse geocoding is not performed and any existing IPTC headers are ignored.
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Google Latitude

Published by Bruce on February 8, 2009 in Quicklinks. 4 responses

Google Latitude, functionally similar to afore-mentioned Fire Eagle, allows computer and mobile phone users to upload and share (or hide) location updates manually or automatically—which are plotted on a Google Map. Latitude for iPhone is "coming soon". No word yet on integration with the Google Maps API. Rumour has it that location-awareness is coming to Mac OSX 10.6—potential for another Apple-Google partnership?

Apple Mail To Do folder killed at last

Published by Bruce on January 22, 2009 in Quicklinks. 4 responses

Apple Mail in OS X 10.5 insists on adding 'Apple Mail To Do' folders to your IMAP accounts such as Gmail; delete them and they're back on the next sync. Finally someone has figured out a solution that works. Quit Mail and open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist in BBEdit or similar and search for LocalAccount (as AccountType). Copy the string under the uniqueId key. Now search for the NewNoteToDoAccount key and paste over the LocalAccountId string. You can now delete those pesky folders on the server so they won't show up again in Gmail (as Labels) or in Mail on your iPhone when you relaunch desktop Mail.

iPhoto '09 does geotagging

Published by Bruce on January 6, 2009 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

iPhoto '09 introduces Places, a feature that links geotagged images in your Library to an integrated Google Map (entire Events can be plotted too). Manual geotagging is supported by typing in a location name or dropping a pin on the map. Locations can be assigned a given radius to indicate a general area. Places will display photos taken within the portion of the zooming map currently in view. Alternatively browse in column view by country, state, city, or point-of-interest—with place names supplied effortlessly by means of reverse geocoding. Third party plug-ins are no longer required to upload directly to Flickr Map. Faces brings face recognition to iPhoto as well, adding the who to when and where.

New icons in GraphicConverter and iTrail

Published by Bruce on September 14, 2008 in Quicklinks. 2 responses

Thorsten Lemke's GraphicConverter is the Swiss Army Knife of image editors, and starting with v6.2 uses the Geotag Icon to clearly highlight geotag-related menu options for showing/ setting positions via Google Earth, editing GPS coordinate values, and geotagging photos via GPX files. iTrail, a track logging app for iPhone, now sports new tab bar and padlock icons I contributed to developer Justin Davis (preview). I was impressed by the extent to which the iPhone SDK manipulates white outline shapes with transparency that result in the inactive grey/ active blue icon states that you see.