MacUpdate Promo
a deal a day on macintosh software
MacUpdate Promo
a deal a day on macintosh software
HoudahGeo is a one-stop geocoding application for the Mac. With HoudahGeo you may "pin" photos to the locations where they were taken. The thus created information may be exported to EXIF tags as well as to Google Earth KML files. Such a file allows for browsing your photos within Google Earth.
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 REQUIREMENTS Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later, a digital camera and optionally a GPS device. 
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 | Hark! said 5/5 at 12:05am Click the SMILEY FACE if you want the evil black dot on the Buy Now button to go away! So scary! |   +9 |
| gclements said 5/5 at 4:37am "It'd be nice if people would actually try the apps and post useful comments instead of just throwing out random useless quotes in obvious attempts to win a free copy, but anyway..." The manner in which free copies are awarded only encourages this. | +8 |
| Pierre Bernard said 5/5 at 12:44pm @anthrovisual: Just tick "Work on originals" in EXIF export. @daz087: With an external GPS track logger (~$90), it's a 2 click process. Without, you can still do pretty fast geocoding using Google Earth. @iamunique127: The GPS device is optional. Any track logging device may be used. This includes the matchbox sized Wintec WBT-201. Garmin, Magellan and some Wintec devices are directly supported. Others may need manufacturer's software. @Zooner: Wintec WBT-201 | +3 |
| Pierre Bernard said 5/5 at 4:31pm @Robert Sayegh: Personally, I use HoudahGeo for tourism. Documenting trips. I actually believe that's what most people do. Showing photos "pinned to location" in Google Earth is also a cool way the family crowd. So much better than a dull slideshow. | +1 |
| h00ligan said 5/5 at 1:56pm @rare, thanks that is some interesting info. But did you download your gps track log a year ago? I have a nuvi 360 but NO IDEA how to get a log from it... i'll have to find that out. Since i have 3k photos to geotag without gps data, and for those who maybe aren't ready to spend, Rapido is probably a comprable solution unless you carry a gps ALL the time. Finally a lot of people don't do one continuous trip with waypoints, is this software smart enough to bridge multiple tracks and omit certain things? Or do i misunderstand and the GPS holds indefinite tracking data? | +1 |
| kenneth1 said 5/5 at 11:59am A fantastic way to map where your photos were taken without having an expensive handheld GPS. I do a lot of hiking but can't afford a GPS yet. I love to take pictures on all my hikes but currently have no way seeing their location on a map. HoudahGeo solves this problem for me. | +1 |
| mnbear said 5/5 at 11:37am Nice addition! I travel a lot for work and sometimes I find things that are just not listed on my Garmin GPS device, this reminds me what it looks like and where its at and ties it into my Flickr account for my friends to see! Great program! | +1 |
| cpaul_phl said 5/5 at 10:02am i've been tempted by this application for a while - glad to see MacUpdate offering useful apps we would want to buy anyway! | +1 |
| naquada said 5/5 at 7:12am I've actually used a few gps -> photo taggers, however this one looks quite good for the reasons of having a visual map of the locations | +1 |
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Rare said 5/5 at 1:50am
It'd be nice if people would actually try the apps and post useful comments instead of just throwing out random useless quotes in obvious attempts to win a free copy, but anyway...
For those of you saying the free RapidoMap is better, be aware that it is completely different. It requires you to input locations manually. I suppose that's fine if you have the time, but that's not at all what I had in mind.
HoudahGeo will take a GPS track log, compare the time stamps within to the timestamps on your pictures, and automatically assign the locations of the pictures. That is *exactly* what I want. (OK, actually I'd prefer a camera that did that at the time of taking the picture, but that's not what I have right now.)
I just tested HoudahGeo with some pictures from our vacation last summer. Because the trial version only allows export of 3 pictures, I wasn't able to do a complete test, but 2 of the 3 locations were identified perfectly and 1 was off by a mile or so. It's possible that the one that was off didn't have good GPS data (I might have been in a bad location). The trick is to synchronize the GPS clock with the camera's clock. HoudahGeo makes it easy to do so; in fact it asks you to specify how many seconds to adjust the time. I wasn't sure, so I said zero; then I looked at one of the pictures for which I knew the precise location and adjusted the time.
I'm impressed, and I'm pretty sure I will buy this today (since the chances of my winning a copy from TidBITS is pretty slim, unless hundreds of people enter using the link I gave earlier). Thanks for featuring it here!
@Hark!: If you really want to give your copy away, I'll gladly accept!