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Product Description:
Ovolab Geophoto is a new Mac OS X application for browsing and collecting digital pictures by location.
Break the limits of long lists of pictures sorted by date! Pinpoint your photos to the exact location where you took the shot. You can now browse your photo albums by panning, zooming and flying through your pictures on a three-dimensional representation of the Earth.
Once geotagged, photos can be shared with other users and will automatically appear in the correct location on the Earth when opened in Geophoto.
Geophoto provides seamless integration with iPhoto: users can browse albums' photos on the Earth, and add geotagging information to photos that are not linked to a specific location yet.
Through Geophoto, you can also subscribe to iPhoto photocasts and browse photos on Flickr, where a vast community of people around the world already shares geotagged pictures.
Finding Flickr photos taken in a specific area on the Earth is as easy as clicking on that area and choosing "Find Flickr Photos in this Location" from Geophoto's menus.
Geophoto is a wonderful tool even if you're not a traveler or a photographer. You'll be able to discover faraway places through pictures taken by Flickr users, or simply organize the photos with your friends by pinning them to their neighborhoods.
But also professional photographers will find it invaluable: finding that photo taken during a photo safari in Africa is as easy as zooming onto the Serengeti park - and Geophoto knows exactly where it is, thanks to an exhaustive database of cities and landmarks. Plus, Geophoto supports many image file formats, including JPEG and Camera RAW, and reads and writes the GPS data, IPTC tags and image properties embedded in those files.
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Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Video card with at least 64 MB VRAM
Screenshots:
 Geophoto's main window |
Matching photos to track points from a GPS log file |
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Download Links:
Download Ovolab Geophoto Version 2.2 (File Size: 60.5M)
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (2.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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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.
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!!!