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Geotagging Photos Software Review

posted by Satri on Monday October 09, @08:06AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the managing-your-photos-requires-time dept.
Geocoding Software Reviews
The Map Room links to a review of three software to geotag photos: TopoFusion, WWMX / GPS Visualizer and RoboGEO. From the WWMX / GPS Visualizer section of the review: "So you might be thinking why go through all this hassle. First, it is free. Second, GSP Visualizer has lots of options and can do almost anything: Google Maps, Google Earth, SVG or JPEG maps, topographic, aerial, street maps, all kinds of profile graphs, etc. And you can control the presentation in detail"

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From the geowanking list and almost all geoblogs, the New York Times runs an article on geotagging and web mapping vizualization [registration required or this link]. From the article: "“The value may not be immediately apparent. But 10 years from now, nobody who’s geotagging their photos is going to regret it,” Mr. Butterfield said. “Most people have just one or two or three iconic photos of their grandparents. Now people are going to have tens of thousands of photos, and when that happens, every little bit of context helps.”" This topic has been featured several times on Slashgeo, make sure you read related stories below (see this main story).
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  • For Mac Users

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    by Anonymous Voxel on Monday October 09, @02:17PM (#1018)
    For Mac users I recommend GPSPhotoLinker http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/ [oregonstate.edu]. Just make sure your log file is in GPS format (easily done with MacGPSBabel) and the set the time difference to deal with your camera not being quite accurate.

    If you don't have a GPS device you can use my Geotagger http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/Geotagger.htm l [stanton.net.nz] to take the location that Google Earth is looking at and copy it into your jpegs.

    Both are very easy, and free. You can't ask more than that :-)