There's quite a latent demand for an application such as this, to add location metadata to photos. This application does actually seem to have the right functional ingredients to pull it off - import images, select a location using Google Maps, apply metadata.

Unfortunately, the bad news is that this application fails in the user interface, which presents everything to you in a bafflingly haphazard manner. The impervious and unintuitive interface seems to contradict all logical notions of how one would expect this application to operate.

The first puzzle for the user is how to even open your images. Go to the File menu, and the only enabled option you see is "Save Data". What am I saving? I haven't done anything yet! "Open" is permanently disabled. How about dragging some image files into the Pictures list? Nice try, but that does nothing either. No, you need to press "Load Pictures" in the bottom left of the window, and then navigate to your image files.

Next up, you'd think you could navigate the map and specify the location you want to add to the current photo, right? Wrong. You can pan the map, but you cannot zoom it! Plus that's all you can do at this point anyway. In order to actually achieve anything, you must first press "Add Marker", which sets the location to 0,0. Only now can you pan AND zoom the map. However, if you think it's simply a case of panning and zooming the map, and then hitting a button to set the location, you'd be wrong again. In fact, you have to drag the red marker to the location on the map that you are trying to find. Each time you drag the marker, it redraws and re-centers the map.

To me, this is the complete opposite of how this function should work. Typically, when people want to find a location on a map (real or virtual), and mark it, they pan/zoom the map, and once they've located their point of interest, put a marker on the map. Yes, you need to be able to finely adjust the point once you've placed it, but dragging the initial marker all the way from Africa is truly the craziest alternative you could choose.

This is a useful utility to have, but the current interface for this application is both procedurally and visually unintuitive. I haven't even started to describe the perplexing array of buttons, fields and tabs that make up the middle portion of the window, or why on earth there are 2 different push-button styles. The fact is, the interface is nothing short of maddening. I would ask that the author of this application redesign the interface so that people can actually use it in an efficient and non life-shortening manner. Maybe then this application will live up to its potential.