“This has yet to be announced by Apple or Google, but Mactelchat forum user javester has been poking around in the code and noticed something fishy. Javester stated one of his/her findings as follows: ‘In the Localizable.strings file inside the iPhoto app bundle, we find several intriguing keys, including one called GPSMapURL which is preset to ‘http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%f+%f”!’ In real people terms, this means iPhoto has code that links to Google Maps,” Doug Berger reports for Gadgetell.
“If you’re not familiar with geotagging, sites like Flickr and a whole slew of Google Maps API-based sites use it to mark on a map where something happened. In the case of iPhoto, it would mark on a map where each picture or album was taken,” Berger explains.
Berger reports, “Javester also found a hidden ‘Show’ button that would link to a Google Map of the location.” Full article here.
And, javester has posted a video of iPhoto geotagging in action:
iPhoto Google Maps Geotagging Unlocked:
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My camera needs GPS!
How many cameras actually have geotags in their metadata?
Maybe it means an Apple camera is coming.
If that helps me to tag and locate that beautiful girl on the picture I saw yesterday, I’m all for it….
And of course, my agenda gets filled up with dates, imagine all those girls finally able to locate me…
me too???
“I had a dream” . . . and then Apple went and stole my idea for the iPod.
Fsckers.
Hi im stupid, how exactly do these geotags get populated?
http://www.hackaday.com/2004/10/20/add-location-data-to-photos-latitude-and-longitude/
This is really so I can keep a closer eye on all of you. When I’m not busy playing with my Mac, I have to attend to defunct human race. This just makes it easier. Thats all.
Great !! What’s the point?
You don’t know the history of stalking beautiful women via GPS. I do.
You don’t know the history of stalking beautiful women via GPS. I do.
Oh, yeah – this’ll help millions of people who can’t remember where they were standing when they took that shot of the Eiffel Tower, or the Washington Monument, or the Grand Canyon…
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Is this the return of the Quick Take?
This just means that instead of taking pictures of your vacation, just go to Google Earth, click on your destination, and print out photos of where you went. For more realism, iPhoto will now automatically crop members of your family and friends and place them in the photo.
Forget about the government being big brother, Google and Apple now have secret plans to take over the world by tracking all of the inhabitants of the world and secretly laughing at us all in our silly vacation pictures…
Hey, I just had a real evil idea.
How about this thought??
Apple iPhone. New cell phones come with GPS installed so when you call for help, the medics can find you. Take a picture, it gets geo tagged and send it to iPhoto. Now you can take pictures on the road and phone them home with a gps link so their location is tracked for later use.
Any thoughts?????
N.
iPhone with camera will no-doubt have GPS….
I thought geotagging was bumping crappy little GM cars off the road.
GPS on camera to add geotag to the photos, then have people upload the photos to Google’s version of fliker, Google earth generates 3D view of site by stitching the photos submitted using quicktime technology! That will be cool.
How about let’s not and say we did?
This reminds me of a rumor that circulated over a year ago about “future Mac technologies” that some insider claimed to have knowledge of. The two most interesting were: the addition of GPS to laptops (so that you could use Spotlight to search for the email you sent when you were on a business trip to the West Coast, for example) and the other was an algorithm in a future version of iTunes that would allow iTunes to determine the genre of a song based upon its beat structure and this metadata tag could automatically be added to the song. Today’s rumor seems to be an expansion of the first.
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Then Apple and Google will compile everybody’s geotagged pictures into a massive database, which they image map onto a surface contour model of the Earth, and superimpose onto Google’s satellite imagery. Then when you look through your iPod camera, you can see either the world as it is now at the position where you stand, or the satellite imagery, or other people’s photographs at that point, or all of them composited together.
Then with the thumbwheel you can go backward in time to see how things have changed over the years.
Or you can get a Zune and just play other Zune owners’ music until it expires.
@ Ampar: Long time reader, first time responder.
That was just too funny to let go without comment.
Thanks, TenaciousDNA!
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