Comments on: iPhoto update helps show merits of geotagging

With new software version, Apple starts unlocking more of the promise of location tags: use a map to browse photos or create a photo book based on where you were.

[Hep Cat]

Leave it to Apple to bring a bunch of technology together in a useful and attractive way.

[Deankut]

Does anyone know if iLife 09' will be included in the Snow Leopard Upgrade???

[huzzam]

So far, iLife updates have never been included in OS updates. So I'd guess you'll have to get them separately, if you want both of them.

[Perry_Clease]

As Huzzam says they are usually sold separate. However, Apple is offering a "Box Set" consisting of Leopard, iLife 09, and iLife 09 for $169 or $229 for a 5 license family pack. Hopefully will continue that for Snow Leopard.

See http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB997?mco=MzA3MDgxNQ

[TravisOwens]

So basically iPhoto does what Flickr & Google Maps have been doing for the past 2-3 years.

[Perry_Clease]

Yes, you enter a an address into iPhoto and it returns a map.

Troll

[Surfnsun]

Its too bad the iPhone has such a crappy camera the pics won't be worth looking at anyway.

[Perry_Clease]

Crappy compared to what cameras?

[drhamad]

What does the iPhone have to do with iPhoto? The iPhone is one of uh, a basically unlimited number, of cameras that work with iPhoto.

[sevort]

<Crappy compared to what cameras?>
Compared to many nokias and samsungs of the world that now routinely have 5-megapixel autofocus cameras...

[GeoLogTag]

You can use your cool digital camera to take the photos and your iPhone to help with the geotagging part. I'm a happy GeoLogTag user. The app exports GPX files and I can geotag my Flickr photos from within the app (no GPX required). I'm certainly gonna use it in combination with HoudahGeo before I import my photos in iPhoto '09.

[RadekZak]

Crappy to Nokia N82 for instance. The Nokia has 5 Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics ,xenon flash and geotaging.It really does great pics and you can see them on your computer.

[daiei27]

That's nice, but I'd rather have a large touch screen than a so-so camera. People buy digital cameras for that sort of thing because they do what they do best.

Who cares anyways? You haters are missing the point of the article. Even if the iPhone couldn't take pictures, lots of people use it to store them and take it on the go. Now they can geotag and synchronize with all these services. I for one don't want to pay a subscription fee to Flickr, even though I agree their service is awesome.

[seven7dust]

all cell phone cameras suck...
lets face it they ain't replacing digital cameras in a long time

[com-hunter]

Geotagging is great for sight seeing, but I don't really want anyone following my travels locally near my home by the geotags on the picture. Can anyone say geostalking??? As with putting your address on an online account, geotagging could give the wrong people TMI.

As far as the iPhone and iServices???? I won't have to worry about it anytime soon as I see no good reason to buy one ;o)

Signed,

Happy Flickr Pro member!

[Shankland]

Definitely be careful with what you share online.

Unless you specifically set your account otherwise, Flickr strips out location data from your photos. If you do include location data, you can set "geoprivacy" so not everyone can tell the location.

[krioni--2008]

One problem with the Facebook integration - it is frustrating and unreliable. You have to jump through hoops for each person you want to tag. Take a look at the following page for more info:

http://timmy.vox.com/library/post/iphoto-ilife09-facebook-fail.html

Short story: rather than knowing who your friends are and matching based on that, you have to know what email address your friend used as their Facebook account address (they might not display it), and put that into iPhoto. Now, do that, one at a time, for every friend you have. A good percentage of those will require asking the friend what their Facebook account email is, since they chose not to display it on their profile.

Oh, and it sometimes fails even after you do all that.