Mac OS X 10.5 gets geotagging support
(Credit: Apple)There were a lot of one-liners to sift through in Apple's feature list for the Leopard, the Mac OS X 10.5 update due Friday, so I thought it worthwhile to call out the geotagging support.
The Preview software, which lets users get details on files they're browsing, "pinpoints the location where you took the photo on a world map," according to Apple's Leopard feature list. "From there you can even open the GPS location in Google Maps."
I gather from the adverb "even" that I should read this news with a sense of amazement, but really converting latitude-longitude coordinates in a file to a dot on a map isn't rocket science. What's more notable is how rare this feature remains in photo viewer software. The fact that Flickr has 42 million geotagged photos should be a wake-up call that photo enthusiasts are beginning to embrace this technology.
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branding effort with their new friend Google?
Compare that to the nonsense that spews out from other
companies and you have to admit that this is a rather innocuous
bit of marketing-speak.
Not the inaccuracy of the healine for this piece. It should have
had a "Ho Hum" or something in the headline to more accurately
tag this article as a cheap shot at Apple for marketing like any
other company out there.
where we've been and what we've done there. Having cameras and a computer operating system
(and not just programs that run on the OS but build INTO the OS) is absolutely great!
geotaging advancement. However, if Apple dare include it within
there app, you seem a bit cynical, I wonder why?
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9800194-39.html