Geotag Photos app blog

Jan, author of Android and desktop version of Geotag Photos pro just returned from Thailand trip and took more than 5000 photos there. Sure all of them were geotagged using our Geotag Photos Pro application, but he also realized one thing – the geotaging was little bit slooow. Honestly, it took minutes to geotag those thousands of photos. Maybe not big deal for somebody, but we saw challenge to make another improvement. And when we realized to update desktop application, we also decided to add few new features. After busy days & nights beta final version is  here!

• drastic speed improvements - really, now the geotagging of photos is about 10 times faster, especially on Windows platform. We also speed up loading of image previews and improved showing of progress when geotagging.
• fix camera time function is not limited for max 2 days anymore, new field for day is there. Read more about fix camera time function in this article
• something for PRO users. In this new version we support XMP file format and separate XMP files for photos. What does it mean? XMP is standard defined by Adobe for describing of pictures metadata. In compare with EXIF it can be stored in separate file – the advantage is, that original file with picture is untouched. Note – not every software supports this. For example Adobe Lightroom (and other Adobe apps) supports, but not iPhoto or Aperture. You can enable this feature in Setup window.
• few UI improvements - now app looks more native especially on Mac OS X

This Geotag Photos desktop application is currently in beta. After 3 weeks of testing and implementing your valued feedback we decided to release final version of Geotag Photos desktop application 3.0. You can still run older version, if you want, but we don’t know about any reason, why you should . We are also users of Geotag Photos Pro, so that we are very happy with this new version – especially that speed thing (about 10 times faster geotagging on Jan’s computer) is amazing.

We will be happy, if you share your experience with Geotag Photos Pro with others, either writing about it, tweeting, liking us on Facebook or so. With more customers more updates will come .

As always, we will be happy to hear your feedback and feature requests.

Yours,

Jindrich & Jan, authors of GeotagPhotos

Well, it happen even to us, as users of Geotag Photos Pro. From time to time, you may need new phone. Either the old one is too old, without those fancy features, that you want to use or you can simply lost your phone. In Geotag Photos, account is linked directly with your phone. So that what to do, if you have new phone, but you want to continue to use your old account?

Until now, you had to write us, we did some “magic” in our database and switched your account to the new phone. But from today, everybody can do this by himself. There is an easy way, how to do it:

• Use Link with GeotagPhotos.net function from your new phone. Nothing new is there, you have to enter your email, then you will get email from us with link to registration
• On the registration page, you can now select account migration function. There simply login with your existing account to prove, that you want to migrate your account.
  
• After that, simply click on Link with new device button and that’s it!

Generally, what will happen?

• we will assign your new device to your old account
• we will also transfer all trips, that you made with your new device before the registration
• the old device is still possible to use with Geotag Photos app, you only need to create new account for it

Note again: Migration of old account is prepared for that case, when you don’t want to use your old phone with Geotag Photos with existing account any more.

We are just about to release new version of Geotag Photos Pro application. As always, we implemented most requested features from you, our customers. So that if you have any brilliant idea, don’t left it for yourself, send it to us! We will be happy to implement it in future version.

Notifications

Even happen, that you realized, that you made photos, but there was some problem with GPS signal – you were in building or in narrow street, so that position was not logged? Or have you traveled across time zones and forgot to set your camera time to local time? This will not happen again, thanks to our new notifications!

• notify, when GPS signal lost - when this feature is enabled, we will send you notification, when we were enable to detect your current position. Then you can fix it easily, just step to place with better view to sky or near the window, if you are in the building.
• notify me, when Time zone changed – you know this – bored after 8 hours flight in economy class, just went outside of plane in new country, start Geotag Photos, take pictures… But you forgot to set local time on your camera. This don’t happen again. We will notify you, when timezone changed since your last launch of Geotag Photos. We will even notify you, if the timezone changed during logging.

Sure both notifications is possible to disable, if you don’t want to use them. Look at Settings & Upload screen.

Better GPX export

This will notice only small amount of users, but we still made it. Generated file will be more accurate, especially wen you stay longer time on one place and then you move. We also improved Aperture compatibility (in fact, we made workaround for Aperture bug) for GPX files generated by us.

And last, but not least – some users, that are using email GPX export asked us for possibility to enter default email. We agree, that it is boring to enter same email again and again – so this option is there as well – in Advanced settings.

This new version will be released soon, but if you want to test it now (iOS only), please use this form to apply. We are using TestFlight, standard tool for sending beta versions of iOS applications. Final version will be released for both iPhone and Android.

Well, this post in not about news in Geotag Photos Pro application. But we want to share our happiness with you. Today Geotag Photos Pro was awarded as the Best Geotagging App in Macworld’s App Gems Awards 2010. Well, there were only 24 apps awarded (from more than 250 000 available in AppStore) and we are happy to be in club with Skype, Angry Birds, Flipboard or so.

This would never happen without you – our customers. You gave us feedback and ideas, how to make Geotag Photos Pro better and we like to implement your ideas. So that back to work, there are still some features in our “planned features” list . Sure our email support@tappytaps.com is always open to new ideas.

Yours,

Jindrich & Jan from TappyTaps