Microsoft Pro Photo Tools v2 Released (actually 2.2) – Geo-locate your pictures the draggy-droppy way

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Pro Photo Tools version 2

“Tools for editing metadata in photographs including latitude, longitude, and other location details.

Version:	2.2
Date Published:	9/15/2008
Language:	English
Download Size:	39 KB - 5.0 MB*

The Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, you can load track route files from the most popular formats (NMEA, GPX, and KML) and see them on the map. Then you can place your photos on the track route. Again, the GPS info will be stored into your file. When you have the right GPS location for your photos, you can automatically generate location info like country, state, city and even street names. Or if you know the location where a picture was taken, you can type it in and get the GPS location information automatically.

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As I take more and more digital pictures (and as Santa is mostly going bring us a new camera this Christmas) and hike/walk more I am getting more interested in geo-tagging. I dig the thought that simple location metadata in the images could be used in so many ways…

For instance, I would really like to see a way that Photosynth could reach out and grab other pictures from the same location to flesh out a Synth. And that’s one example… Just think of the coolness that could be created by combining the “worlds” images of a given location. And geo-tagging/geo-locating the images is just the first step in this.

 

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