I just discovered a very neat feature in iPhoto of which I was completely ignorant. (Gee, I wish Apple would actually provide some instruction documentation with their products!! :rolleyes:) If you use a camera that is equipped with GPS, you can see the geographical coordinates of your photos on a Google map in iPhoto. For example, here's the route of a hike we took into Panorama Meadows in Banff National Park, as shown by the approximate coordinates of various photos I took:
Then you can even click on each "pin" to see the photo or photos taken at those coordinates, e.g.:
...Or vice versa, you can click on a photo to see the map position.
The more you zoom in on the map, the greater the detail, to a limit - this photo is as close as I can zoom in. Given that I usually take a couple hundred photos each trip, you can see that there is a limit to the resolution - not sure if the limit is coming from the GPS resolution of the camera or from the display capability of the map function:
Anyway, this looks like an amazingly useful feature for recording plant sightings!
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Re: Amazing feature in iPhoto for mapping photo coordinates
I've always said that my next camera will have a GPS function in it. When you think about it, the mapping feature would be a natural extension of it, and if Apple hadn't made an app for it on a Mac, someone would have (and I'm sure someone(s) have made them for a PC, too). It would be a really cool application to use when you give power point presentations on your excursions, Lori. ;D
By the way, I am also keeping an eye out for a camera that can record verbal notes with each photograph (not in movie/video mode). If anyone knows of any, please let me know. I can do it with my little point and shoot camera, supposedly, but only in "travel picture" mode. But it doesn't really help much because I can't take macro photos in that mode.
The "manual" that came with my new HP computer was a little pamphlet. :rolleyes:
Re: Amazing feature in iPhoto for mapping photo coordinates
Lori
very impressive and a super facility,I only run to a simple camera and not even a GPS just paper maps,poor pensioner!
Rick I take two pictures the first with the note and the second in the macro mode,not ideal but it works.
Everybody is releasing incredibly complex applications without manuals, because they found out that nobody reads the manuals. It's a big problem for people like me who insist on reading instructions. If you google your application, you will usually find a lot of instructions.
I love that feature, BTW.