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Filed under: iLife, Odds and ends, Freeware

RapidoMap: slick geocoding for free

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Aug 26th, 2007

We've previously covered quite a few different applications to geocode your photos. Geocoding or geotagging is the process of adding location information (latitude and longitude) to the EXIF metadata of your photos, so you can see where they were taken. RapidoMap is one of the newest of these tools and looks to have a couple of particularly nice features. The application integrates a browser for Yahoo Maps which is how you actually locate your photos on the globe. It has an iLife media browser that makes it easy to get your photos in, and a built-in Flickr uploader.

Best of all, RapidoMap is a free download from app4mac (points off to them, however, for using an installer package).

[via Macworld]

Tags: EXIF, flickr, geocode, geocoding, geotag, geotagging, metadata, photos, rapidomap

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Beta Beat

HoudahGeo geocoding with Google Earth integration

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Mar 31st, 2007

We have posted about several differing geocoding solutions for the Mac. All of these programs allow you to embed location information in the EXIF data of your photographs, thus specifying where the photo was taken as well as the time, date, etc. The newest entry into the Mac geocoding sweepstakes is HoudaGeo, which has just been released as a public beta. Like some of the others, it allows you to tag your photos either by importing tracking data from a GPS device (syncing using the time stamps) or by using an interface with Google Maps. Once the photos have been tagged you can export them to Google Earth with a single click:

HoudaGeo is a free download while it's in beta but will eventually be shareware.

Tags: EXIF, geocode, geocoding, geotag, geotaging, houdageo, photo

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Odds and ends

PhotoInfoEditor: Geocode Your Photos

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Feb 1st, 2007

It's becoming increasingly common for people to want to include meta-data with their photos about where they were taken. Geocoding is the process of adding location information to the meta-data of digital photos, similar to the Exif meta-data that nearly all digital cameras add with date, time, exposure settings, etc. There are even few digital cameras out there with built-in GPS to facilitate this. PhotoInfoEditor is a nice little utility that allows you to geocode your existing photos, either by just typing in the latitude and longitude, or even better, by marking the location on the built-in Google Map. As you can see from the screen capture above, you select the photo you want to geocode and then simply zoom into the location on the Google Map to mark it. Very slick.

PhotoInfoEditor is still a little touchy (sometimes the Google Maps don't draw correctly), but it's a nice idea, and best of all it's free (donations requested). Obviously, you have to have an active internet connection for this to work, but you can mark locations anywhere in the world.

[Via FreeMacWare]

Tags: digital photos, DigitalPhotos, exif, geocode, photoinfoeditor

Filed under: Software, Universal Binary

Timeature

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 18th, 2006

Apple must be pleased with the Aperture ecosystem that seems to be starting up. People are creating apps that enhance or complement Aperture, which is always a sign of interest in a product.

The latest entrant into this market is Timeature. This simple app allows you to edit the date that is associated with a picture in Aperture, a field that is not user editable. Why would you need this? Aperture fills in this field with data for the EXIF information including in the picture it is importing. If the picture doesn't have this information it uses the date of the import, so you can see that some pictures might be incorrectly marked.

Timeature is shareware, so if you find it useful cough up some dough.

Tags: aperture, EXIF, timeature

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