![]() ![]() Many people (not me) are not very spatially aware and might have trouble remembering exactly where a photo was taken. Their are two downsides to this method. One, it takes some time to do. Do this for all your photos and you will be able to explore them on a map. To geotag a photo, simply navigate the software’s map to the location where a photo was taken, drag the photo onto the map, and the software writes the geolocation data for that location into the photo. First, you need software that lets you drag photos onto a map ( Flickr has this feature, as do Google’s Picasa and Apple’s iPhoto). The simplest, but perhaps the least inviting way to geotag is the drag-and-drop method. In the current state you have several geotagging options to explore. It should be more ubiquitous, but the technology is not as prevalent, or easy to use, as it should be. While not really true (geotagging has been going on since the dawn of smartphones) geotagging falls under the category of “techy” at the moment. ![]() To paraphrase the clerk at my camera store, GPS tagging of photos is still in its infancy. I have become intrigued and after some intensive goofing around I spent the last week compiling what I now know about geotagging. Geotagging is something I have casually investigated before, but not something I got into seriously. The problem is, he got me interested in geotagging. You have to install Apple’s iPhoto for iOS ($4.99CAD) to get the ability to click on a photo to see it on a map (see screenshot to the right).įathers, like customers, are always right. On iOS, in the built-in Photos app you can choose Places and see all your photos on a map, but you can’t do the reverse (i.e., choose a photo and see it on a map). ![]() Apparently, on his Android phone, it is easier to see where a photo was taken. He keeps dissing the iPhone’s geotagging functions. My Motivation Map view in iPhoto on iPhone ![]()
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