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October 22, 2007 8:04 AM PDT

Mac OS X 10.5 gets geotagging support

(Credit: Apple)

There were a lot of one-liners to sift through in Apple's feature list for the Leopard, the Mac OS X 10.5 update due Friday, so I thought it worthwhile to call out the geotagging support.

The Preview software, which lets users get details on files they're browsing, "pinpoints the location where you took the photo on a world map," according to Apple's Leopard feature list. "From there you can even open the GPS location in Google Maps."

I gather from the adverb "even" that I should read this news with a sense of amazement, but really converting latitude-longitude coordinates in a file to a dot on a map isn't rocket science. What's more notable is how rare this feature remains in photo viewer software. The fact that Flickr has 42 million geotagged photos should be a wake-up call that photo enthusiasts are beginning to embrace this technology.

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Hyperbole?
by ewelch October 22, 2007 11:25 AM PDT
No doubt this is marketing hyperbole. Maybe even a co-
branding effort with their new friend Google?

Compare that to the nonsense that spews out from other
companies and you have to admit that this is a rather innocuous
bit of marketing-speak.

Not the inaccuracy of the healine for this piece. It should have
had a "Ho Hum" or something in the headline to more accurately
tag this article as a cheap shot at Apple for marketing like any
other company out there.
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You seemed amazed with Flickr...
by ca5ter October 22, 2007 4:57 PM PDT
Only a couple of days ago, you were all gitty about Flickr's
geotaging advancement. However, if Apple dare include it within
there app, you seem a bit cynical, I wonder why?

Reference:
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9800194-39.html
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