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RoboGEO - Simplifying Georeferencing of Photos

posted by Satri on Tuesday June 13, @08:40AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the picture-frenzy-with-a-sense-of-where dept.

The Google Earth Blog discuss the update of RoboGEO, a tool to geocode photos. Main features from the RoboGEO website: "Write to the EXIF Headers, Stamp the Images, Create Google Maps, Create Google Earth KML or KMZ Files, Upload Geotagged Photos to Flickr, Create ESRI Shapefiles, Export AutoCAD DXF Files, Export to MapPoint, more." We discussed geocoding photos before.

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  by Satri (3) on Thursday June 15, @07:56AM (#715)
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