HOUDAHGEO WINDOWS HOW TO
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įortunately, there are some hardware attachments for certain SLR cameras (some Nikon and Canon models, and the Fujifilm S5pro) lately, from Dawntech and Solmeta, which add the GPS information directly when shooting (available from and others) Once you have geocoded images in your HoudahGeo project, you will export those to Google Earth/Maps, Flickr or a third-party application.These are standard geographic locations, or GPS coordinates for photo files, and the process of adding these is called geotagging or geocoding. Either the images have been previously geocoded, or you will apply geocoding only now. You will use HoudahGeo to access your image library. and want to publish them along with geo information. Publishing: You have already fixed up your images, made a selection. Once you are done geocoding you will ask HoudahGeo to write EXIF tags to originals (if you have backups) or copies and then import the tagged images into iPhoto or Aperture.Ģ. You might want to use Image Capture.app for this. In this event, you need to bring your photos into HoudahGeo BEFORE bringing them into your image library. you want to use the metadata for sorting purposes in iPhoto or Aperture. Content / Metadata creation: you want to attach metadata to your image so it travels the whole way along your processing chain. You will modify a copy of the image which iPhoto will happily erase the next time you make modifications.ġ. When you get photos from iPhoto (or Aperture), writing back to the originals does not make much sense.

HOUDAHGEO WINDOWS SOFTWARE

This makes sense if you are using HoudahGeo to publish your images (Google Earth, Flickr) or preparing them to be published: you might use publishing software down the road which reads EXIF/XMP. What HoudahGeo accesses is the modified version. IPhoto actually keeps two copies of each image: the original and the modified version. They do not get uploaded to a Google server. If you don't your images are private to yourself only. you may send this file to friends, family, coworkers. Only those who have the file get to see your image. You can view this file using Google Earth. When you use HoudahGeo to export to Google Earth, it creates a KMZ file which contains your images.

HOUDAHGEO WINDOWS HOW TO

I could not test the reverse operation, as I cannot figure out how to write EXIF using GeoPhoto. This worked fine for me: the photo was pinned just where I geocoded it to using HoudahGeo. I have just downloaded GeoPhoto for the very purpose of testing its capability to read EXIF tags. Be sure to use the actual tagged copy for import into GeoPhoto. With that checked, EXIF will be written back to the images you have imported into HoudahGeo. HoudahGeo has the option to 'work on originals' when writing EXIF tags. You need not worry about your data not being readable in the future. You may double-check the EXIF written by HoudahGeo using the Inspector window in Apple's Preview.app. My main concern is still that both apps seem to not be able to write EXIF data in a format the other can read - which given who knows what version of 'Flibbity Jibbit Map Viewer' app I will be using in a decade from now makes me worried that the locational data I am adding in HoudahGeo won't be usable.

My camera is a Nikon D80, saving in Nikon RAW NEF at maximum resolution.ġ) Use HoudahGeo to add the locational EXIF data to files via Google Earth ģ) Use GeoPhoto to manage the files AFTER HoudahGeo had performed its magic.Ĭan anyone advise on this? Or am I missing a trick here - can I for example, forget about GeoPhoto and just use Google Earth to show imags - NB: it is VERY important that I can be certain that those photos are not uploaded to Google hence I have been hesitant to explore this route. This is quite concerning as it gives me cause to doubt both products (ahh the joys of evaluating software!) BUT when I do the opposite - save EXIF data to a photo in GeoPhoto and then load into HoudahGeo the EXIF data is ALSO not read (the photo's entry appears in red in the list) and again the photo is not marked with location. When I ask HoudahGeo to write locational EXIF data to a file, and then load it into GeoPhoto that EXIF data is not loaded and GeoPhoto marks the photo as without location.

I am trying out both HoudahGeo and Geophoto with a view to using both (they compliment each other quite well) and have observed something quite strange.

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