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HoudahGeo take two best for geotaggers

Published by Bruce on February 16, 2009 in Mac. 2 responses

HoudahGeo was at version 1.4.2 when I last looked at it in a Mac geotagging software showdown. A license costs $US30 (50% less for students; also TrailPay option) although this is a free upgrade for those with a 1.x license. The following is a largely visual tour of HoudahGeo 2.1, illustrating its ability to perform both automatic and manual geotagging via an outstanding 3-step interface, and to share geotagged images with users of Google Earth, Flickr, and Locr—or any service/ software than can read EXIF metadata or CSV/ GPX files.
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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.

iPhone geotagging good for a laugh only

Published by Bruce on July 21, 2008 in Mobile. 10 responses

Geotagging outdoors with the original iPhone—which uses triangulation of cell tower signals—seems to be as entertaining as some of the "productivity tools" in the App Store. In other words, laughably useless. While the iPhone did somewhat erroneously relocate a pavement sign to the North Sea shipping lanes, it also managed to pin a photo of a rose to within 1.4km of the actual location. How can it be so inconsistent, and are things really as bad as they seem?
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CDFinder in the Mac geotagging workflow

Published by Bruce on March 24, 2008 in Mac. 6 responses

Like many Mac users I archive my pictures in iPhoto, largely because I enjoy the tight integration this affords with Apple and third-party apps that might want to use them. Having entered the world of geotagging I was disappointed to discover that iPhoto can fail to show coordinates in EXIF (and when shown, oddly lists them under Exposure), does not recognise location data in IPTC headers, and does not provide any "show on map" facility (even Preview does this). Norbert Doerner of West-Forest-Systems then pointed out that I'd completely neglected archive and retrieval of geotagged images in my "ABC" article. This Mac software critique goes some way to redress that omission by considering the role of CDFinder in a Mac user's geotagging workflow. CDFinder is essentially an asset manager that catalogues any file on any volume (CD-ROM, DVD, USB drive, etc). But media metadata are its speciality, and this indexing powerhouse has recently been extended to handle geotags and provide related functionality.
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Geotagging your images in iPhoto

Published by Bruce on April 3, 2007 in Mac. 9 responses

When writing about geocaching I mentioned that I'd heard of geotagging—but I hadn't made use of it. I've also posted about various ways to keep track of places you've been, including utilising Google Maps. I like to catalogue my travel pictures in iPhoto, but know of no way to integrate iPhoto and Google Maps. But you can use Google Earth to display geotagged photos in your iPhoto Library—even if you don't have a GPS device to record coordinates.
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In the shadow of Mt. Doom

Published by Bruce on January 28, 2007 in Photography. 0 responses

We end this month in New Zealand with a sense of achievement: we walked the Tongariro Crossing without significant pain nor injury. We had good weather and got some great photos of the beautiful volcanic landscape. Our 18.6 km walk began early morning in the shadow of Mt. Doom, as Ngauruhoe is now popularly known following its role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. In the bright sunlight at altitude, capturing well-exposed images of the dark landscape required extra care to avoid blown highlights.
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