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Promising, but needs to get quirks fixed 
- Version: 2.2, 5/8/2008 10:05AM PST
tdibble_dotmac
That aside, I keep seeing Google Earth resolution complaints here. I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but in the Preferences pane there is an "Imagery" tab, and clicking the "Download" button will "upgrade" your satelite resolutions by exactly one step. Its a painful interface, as you need to click the button, wait an hour for the next res to finish downloading, then click the button again. But, it seems to resolve the resolution complaints. Obviously, though, having all of Google Earth satellite images on local disk is a huge waste of disk space. It'd be really nice if there was a better interface to this, and which would allow you to "downgrade" to conserve space.
Still on the topic of possibly incorrect statements in other reviews: you can indeed directly key in the latitude/longitude of a particular image, by using the Item | Set Location ... menu tem (also accessible from the Inspector's "gear menu") then clicking the second tab of the dialog. That gives four ways to geocode an image so far as I can see:
- Match to GPS log files
- Drag/drop in Google Earth interface
- Enter city/country (photo gets placed in geographic center of the city ... it'd be nice if there was an accuracy measure in the EXIF tags)
- Enter lat/long directly
My main gripe is in the match-logs dialog box. Every time it comes up there is a drop-down which contains every major city around the world linked to its time zone to identify the time zone of the camera. This defaults to a GMT location, so I suppose if you were along that meridian you'd be all set. For me, though, getting to Americas/Los Angeles is a painful click, drag, watch scroll, drag back from overscrolling, search, click process. A simple memory of which time zone you'd selected last time would be really useful here!
Some streamlining here would be useful. There are far too many steps required to just match up a bunch of images to a log file. Integration with Aperture more directly would be nice (I have to open up the project location and do a spotlight search for all .CRW files underneath, then drag those in to GeoPhoto; being able to automatically open the master files for selected images in Aperture would be really nice).
Stability? I don't think I've used it enough to say for certain, although the demo crashed on me repeatedly when trying to update from the web (I'm guessing the issue had to do with the no-saving cripple; registered then reran the update process and all went well).
Finally, the OvoLab web site is atrocious. It says for support we should go to their forums ... anyone see such a link anywhere? No, me either. If it's there, I doubt anyone else has shown up. If you want to foster community, you need to make the forums highly visible!!!
New version, new problems - Version: 2.0, 3/23/2008 09:30AM PST
BaroqueW
However, the application ended up scraping my GeoPhoto v1 library and when I tried to start a new file, it crashed, and crashed, and crashed again while importing albums from iPhoto until my new GeoPhoto library got scraped. Still need some work...
And by the way, the application can be very slow sometimes (but maybe that's because I had too many pictures in it (2000+ with version 1)), especially at startup.
Good Job - Version: 2.0, 3/20/2008 09:10PM PST
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matthewmiller1234Very fun application. - Version: 1.8.2, 3/13/2008 10:59PM PST
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ewood65Leopard Only - Version: 1.8, 1/11/2008 12:08AM PST
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psr--2008Initially interesting but significant shortcomings ... - Version: 1.5.2, 10/16/2007 05:11AM PST
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LocustMan* you cannot manually enter latitude/longitude data for your photos
* extracting latitude/longitude coordinates from a map is very inefficient and not precise
* the resolution of the satellite imagery (even at highest resolution) is awful when compared to Google Earth
* for some reason, photo files with latitude/longitude data already in the EXIF are not placed on the map, nor does this information appear in the Inspector
Although this application has tremendous potential, if the developers do not address the above shortcomings, it will end up with the rest of the poor attempts of geo-referencing on the Mac platform, that is, in the rubbish bin.
Good idea - Needs improvements - Version: 1.3, 6/11/2007 02:01PM PST
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BaroqueWYou can place on a globe your pictures (imported from iPhoto albums or off the disk) and Flickr pics albums to present them in an original fashion. Placing and manipulation is intuitive and you achieve quick results. The Google Maps integration fails quite often (the so called Loupe often freezes or just doesn't display the Google Maps overlay properly). The quality of maps used for the globe is also far from that of Google Earth but the use of Google Maps diminishes the importance of that problem. YTou can also find locations using an online database, quite complete (with hotels, points of interest, cities, regions and so on).
The loading of the app is quite slow but with 1000s of pics to reload from iPhoto albums I deem it's normal. A few details needs to be taken into revision: loading of the most recently edited album rather than a blank one, direct edition of the localization of pictures are of those. I emailed the team about it a few days ago, I will see if I get any reply.
In the end, give the soft a try, it's amusing and will change you of the plain iPhoto interface to show pictures of your holidays and trips. Maybe you won't even resent the same flaws as I did. In any case I will keep using that soft for a while and hope for future improvements.
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- Good idea - Needs improvements
Good idea - Needs improvements - Version: 1.3, 6/11/2007 02:00PM PST
BaroqueW
You can place on a globe your pictures (imported from iPhoto albums or off the disk) and Flickr pics albums to present them in an original fashion. Placing and manipulation is intuitive and you achieve quick results. The Google Maps integration fails quite often (the so called Loupe often freezes or just doesn't display the Google Maps overlay properly). The quality of maps used for the globe is also far from that of Google Earth but the use of Google Maps diminishes the importance of that problem. YTou can also find locations using an online database, quite complete (with hotels, points of interest, cities, regions and so on).
The loading of the app is quite slow but with 1000s of pics to reload from iPhoto albums I deem it's normal. A few details needs to be taken into revision: loading of the most recently edited album rather than a blank one, direct edition of the localization of pictures are of those. I emailed the team about it a few days ago, I will see if I get any reply.
In the end, give the soft a try, it's amusing and will change you of the plain iPhoto interface to show pictures of your holidays and trips. Maybe you won't even resent the same flaws as I did. In any case I will keep using that soft for a while and hope for future improvements.
That aside, I keep seeing Google Earth resolution complaints here. I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but in the Preferences pane there is an "Imagery" tab, and clicking the "Download" button will "upgrade" your satelite resolutions by exactly one step. Its a painful interface, as you need to click the button, wait an hour for the next res to finish downloading, then click the button again. But, it seems to resolve the resolution complaints. Obviously, though, having all of Google Earth satellite images on local disk is a huge waste of disk space. It'd be really nice if there was a better interface to this, and which would allow you to "downgrade" to conserve space.
Still on the topic of possibly incorrect statements in other reviews: you can indeed directly key in the latitude/longitude of a particular image, by using the Item | Set Location ... menu tem (also accessible from the Inspector's "gear menu") then clicking the second tab of the dialog. That gives four ways to geocode an image so far as I can see:
My main gripe is in the match-logs dialog box. Every time it comes up there is a drop-down which contains every major city around the world linked to its time zone to identify the time zone of the camera. This defaults to a GMT location, so I suppose if you were along that meridian you'd be all set. For me, though, getting to Americas/Los Angeles is a painful click, drag, watch scroll, drag back from overscrolling, search, click process. A simple memory of which time zone you'd selected last time would be really useful here!
Some streamlining here would be useful. There are far too many steps required to just match up a bunch of images to a log file. Integration with Aperture more directly would be nice (I have to open up the project location and do a spotlight search for all .CRW files underneath, then drag those in to GeoPhoto; being able to automatically open the master files for selected images in Aperture would be really nice).
Stability? I don't think I've used it enough to say for certain, although the demo crashed on me repeatedly when trying to update from the web (I'm guessing the issue had to do with the no-saving cripple; registered then reran the update process and all went well).
Finally, the OvoLab web site is atrocious. It says for support we should go to their forums ... anyone see such a link anywhere? No, me either. If it's there, I doubt anyone else has shown up. If you want to foster community, you need to make the forums highly visible!!!