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Geotagged Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth

posted by Satri on Thursday August 03, @11:04AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the are-you-sick-of-seeing-Google-Earth-everywhere? dept.

The Google Earth Blog discuss different ways to browse geotagged photos in Google Earth, especially those found on Flickr. From the blog: "But, as more people start geotagging their photos, and more cameras come out with built-in GPS/geotagging capabilities, we will see a lot larger number of photos. The idea of showing rated photos is a particularly useful concept and will become important as we get larger numbers of photos geotagged." He also mentions Picasa 2.5 Beta photo geotagging capabilities.

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• iPhotoToGoogleEarth

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  by Anonymous Voxel on Thursday August 03, @04:43PM (#883)

  I wrote a little plugin for iPhoto that exports your geotagged photos to Google Earth KMZ files. It's usually available on my server here
  
  http://craig.stanton.net.nz/software/iPhotoToGoogl eEarth.html [stanton.net.nz]
  
  but this weekend you'll need to get it from VersionTracker while I change hardware at home
  
  http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 30379 [versiontracker.com]
  • Re:iPhotoToGoogleEarth

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    by Satri (3) on Wednesday September 27, @08:20AM (#1007)
    ( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @04:07PM )

    OgleEarth says it's now even simpler with this script from the same developper: post named Google Earth for Mac + AppleScript = Geotagger! (and more!) [ogleearth.com]

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