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PhotoLinker, from Early Innovations, provides an unprecedented level of map, GPS track, and photo tag interactivity. Annotate—Geotag—Explore.Annotate Your PhotosFuture-proof Tagging: Tags are written directly to the photo or its sidecar (and not a proprietary database) so that your annotations stay with the photo forever. Supports roughly 100 industry standard tags including the most popular like title, description, people, and keywords. Metadata Working Group (MWG) compliance ensures that your annotations are read from and written to your photos using new industry standards. Customizable Metadata Editor: PhotoLinker lets you customize the metadata editor to show exactly the tags you want. You can regroup, reorder, and rename tags to streamline your workflow. Map Your PhotosWhether your photos are geotagged using PhotoLinker (manually or using GPS tracks) or are automatically geotagged using your camera, PhotoLinker lets you interact with and explore your photos on a number of different high quality maps. Automatic GeotaggingDrag in your GPS tracks, drag in your photos, and immediately PhotoLinker will show you the proposed locations to geotag your photos. Watch the proposed locations change instantly when you adjust the time and time zone of your photos. Manual Geotagging Even if you don’t have an GPS, you can enter an address or position the map to manually geotag a photo. Reverse Geocoding Automatically fetch the city, state, and country tags based on the GPS location of the photo from Google, Microsoft, or GeoNames. Explore Your TracksExplore your GPS track history on different high quality maps. View information about individual track points or the entire track. The track database for PhotoLinker is designed to scale to years of data and millions of track points without slowing down. Stylize: Choose different size, border color, and fill color for your tracks and waypoints. Import from the most common GPS track files including GPX, TCX and NMEA log files; or download directly from many popular GPS receivers using PhotoLinker’s built-in support for GPSBabel. Requires Mac OSX 10.5 or 10.6. For more information, please visit http://www.earlyinnovations.com/photolinker/. This weekend’s ZOT?
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March 5th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I have spent a ton of time researching for a good Mac geotagging application. I have developed a pretty good idea of what features I want it to have and how the user interface (UI) should behave for ease of use. I had narrowed it down to a handfull that I tried to use and each one had deficiencies, as if the developers just didn’t quite “get it” from a productivity flow perspective. Their UI would be clunky or a feature would be missing.
PhotoLinker I had been using well before v2 came out and it was in the mix but wasn’t quite there in my estimation. But then v2 came along and it offered a way better UI than the others but lacked Google Maps support. Then in the most recent version MS Bing maps support was added and BAM! This is the geotagging app to beat them all!! This app is really good now! I have been using the latest version and really find it fantastic!
Yes I have tried HoudahGeo for a while and it doesn’t have the finesse that PL has. In particular, I spent a lot of time trying to determine the correct adjustment to a photo’s time stamp to match the geo tracks I recorded on a separate tracking GPS device. My camera clock was off by 1-2 minutes compared with my GPS tracks, which can make a huge difference in the results accuracy. Handling of time zones is another challenging aspect. PL handles both really well, making it a breeze to adjust both. HG does the TZ change easily but determining how much shift to adjust your time stamp can be really tricky for someone like me who wants it as close to dead-on as possible.
I have contacted the developer several times with ideas and issues and he was very responsive and quick to not only correct the issues but has incorporated some of my ideas into the product. He listens to his customers and strives to make this app an excellent product!
This MacZOT! special makes the regular reasonable price a “steal” at half price. If you want a great geotagging app for the Mac download this one and give it a try. I think you too will find it a really great app!
March 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
A couple of questions for the developer…..
Any plans of adding Google Maps support? (much like the Bing Maps already included)
Any plans to add an option (menubar selection) to load an entire iPhoto library?
Thanks.
MrStinkEye
P.S. I’m still tempted to ZOT this app. It has some nice features that are missing from HoudaGeo.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
@MrStinkEye
The legal situation with Google Maps is still unclear (see some of the threads in our forum for details) and the lack of direct tile access makes Google Maps problematic. So because Bing Maps offers similar coverage, we’re not planning to add Google Maps unless they change their licensing.
You can drag photos directly from iPhoto and drop them into PhotoLinker. After geotagging just hit ‘Write Changed Tags’ and tell iPhoto to ‘rescan for location’. We do, however, have even better iPhoto integration planned for the future.
Hope that helps!
Jeffrey