Geotag Photos app blog

Thank you for your feedback, that you gave us during latest 2 weeks. Based on them, we prepared new version of Geotag Photos desktop application. There is plenty of new features, I’d like to introduce some of them.

• New GUI design - maybe you don’t care about graphics, but we tried to make our application more easy to use. We added new quick open dialog with recent open folders and also toolbar with access to all important functions.
• New open folder dialog on Mac OS X - for me very important feature – open folder dialog was really bad – non standard. We don’t know, why Java on Mac OS X uses this dummy Open dialog, but we’ve hacked Java little bit and now you can use standard Mac OS X Open folder dialog, using left sidebar with favorite places or so.
• RAW files formats support - we wrote about this in post Geotagging of RAW files, so that now we released official version of RAW support in Geotag Photos application. We are supporting for more than 20 of different RAW formats, including most used NEF, CRW, CR2 and others. Complete pictures format list, for that we support geotagging: jpg, nef, cr2, crw, dcr, ciff, erf, orf, k25, kdc, mef, mrw, nrw, pef, raf, tif, tiff, raw, arw, rw2, srf, sr2, srw, x3f, dng

So that enjoy this new version and give us your feedback! We are also improving iPhone application, we will write about some of new features in other post.

Jindrich & Jan Sarson, authors of Geotag Photos for iPhone

After  2 weeks of hard work Jan finished new version of Geotag Photos desktop application. I will write separate article about this version soon, but today I want to introduce new and most wanted feature – camera’s RAW format support. Yes, we got a lot of feedback about our Geotagging application and one of biggest disadvantage for professional photographers was lack of RAW format support. So it is history now.

Today we’ve released beta version of new Geogag Photos desktop application, that supports majority of RAW formats. Doesn’t matter if you are using Nikon camera (with NEF format), Canon (with CR2 format), Sony (SR2 or ARW format) or any other. We prepared plugin, that integrates well known and great ExifTool with Geotag Photos app. We also focused on easy installation of this plugin – just click on Setup icon in Geotag Photos desktop application and follow the instructions. After that, you should enable RAW format in Setup window and that’s all. You can start geotagging of your photos in RAW format. And as with previous version, our application is working in Mac OS X, Windows and even in Linux.

Please note – we’ve released this version as a public beta. So that – even we’ve tested it, it is still piece of hot cake. Final version (with translations to other than English languages and some other improvements) will be released next week.

If you want to try, login to Geotag Photos web site and select Start beta version of Geotag application link. And don’t forgot – we warned you, that this is beta version… Let us know to our email info@isarson.com, if you find any issues.

And here you can see video how it is working:

As we wrote one week ago, we decided to develop GPX export function for our geotagging application. Some of you asked for this, and why not to do it, when you want it? So, after few days of beta testing, it is now enabled for all customers. How to get this function? First, you have to upload logged data from your iPhone as usually. Then just login to your geotagphotos.net account and you will see new tab there – GPX Export. After clicking on this, you will be able to select trips, that you want to export and after clicking on Export button – your GPX file is generated for you.

If you are not familiar with GPX – few word about GPX format. GPX format was developed as a standard file format for location data exchange. Most of current hardware GPS devices are supporting this. Because it is standard format, you can use it with various applications. For example – some photo editing tools support this. You can use “Import GPX” function in Apperture, that will Geotag you photos that you have in your Apperture library. There also web based tools, that will analyze your trip (for example, that will show you, how many miles / kilometres you did, how fast you were etc.) or you can display your track on map (you can use GPSVisualizer.com tool for this).

If you have your popular way of use GPX format, feel free to share with us in comments! Also feel free to let us know, what other functions you want to have in Geotag Photos.