Over on the MMISoftware blog they let us know that a new version (Mac OS X) of PhotoGPSEditor has just been released.
The two main upgrades seem to be…
- Wizard to simplify and walk users through the geotagging of photos.
- Support for the Sony GPS-CS1 GPS
now compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.9.
Which is good for me, for when I get round to reviewing and writing up geotagging tools, which I keep telling myself I do really soon now.
Looks like a vast improvement so far, now all I need is for iPhoto not to kill the metadata.
Have a screen shot!
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I do hope Apple gets the iPhoto problem sorted out in 10.5.
As the developer of the above program I was amazed when I started the project to discover that all the required calls are present in Cocoa/objective C for reading meta-data in a photo, but they are broken when it comes to writing the data back. I guess this is the reason why programs like iPhoto kill meta-data when you edit a picture and then re-save it. Shame!
Nice program, but unfortunately, flickr doesn’t read the coordinates out of the metadata. So, not good for me, yet.
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Nice program, but unfortunately, flickr doesn’t read the coordinates out of the metadata. So, not good for me, yet.
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I don’t know PhotoGPSEditor (I don’t have a Mac) but did you authorize the use of EXIF metadata in your account in Flickr ? (“Your Account”>”Privacy & Permissions”>”Import EXIF location data: Yes”).
For Windows/Linux users I’m developing an little Open Source application called “GPicSync” (to geolocalize pictures from a camera and a GPS receiver). More features will come soon:
http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/
[...] In putting this article together I also came across a comment on a post at geobloggers.com in which the same problem was raised. [...]
The above point raised by Andre has also been raised by a number of users of PhotoGPSEditor. Basically, some settings (as Francois says)have to be changed on your Flickr account and this is addressed in a blog post at MMISoftware (http://www.mmisoftware.co.uk/weblog/?p=241).