HoudahGeo for Mac

Pin your photos on Google Earth

Google Earth is one of Google's greatest innovations but it can of course always be improved, which is what the developers of HoudahGeo have attempted.

HoudahGeo is described as a "one-stop geocoding" application for the Mac. In other words, it allows you to "pin" photos to the locations where they were taken. The metadata that's added may then be exported to EXIF tags as well as to Google Earth KMZ files. This is a great way to share photos with other users and maybe get yourself a little, excuse the pun, exposure if you're a professional photographer.

From your hard drive, HoudahGeo takes your photos and allows you to add geographical data to each photo. It works basically like a huge map, allowing you to pinpoint the location your photo was taken in the world, and then automatically generate metatags that can be used in Google Earth. In the full version, there's even an option to work in fully automatic mode if you have a track log file from a GPS receiver.

HoudahGeo is an innovative application that allows you to geocode your photos for use in Google Earth - just don't be in a hurry if you have to encode 100's of photos.

HoudahGeo can now retrieve altitude values for geocoded photos Adds the option to view comments in the list of images Fixes an issue with KML/KMZ export for images with no altitude value GPS device import was not functional on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Not all EXIF/XMP export options were available in the German localization HoudahGeo 3.x is a paid upgrade from previous versions of HoudahGeo.

Changes

• HoudahGeo can now retrieve altitude values for geocoded photos Adds the option to view comments in the list of images Fixes an issue with KML/KMZ export for images with no altitude value GPS device import was not functional on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Not all EXIF/XMP export options were available in the German localization HoudahGeo 3.x is a paid upgrade from previous versions of HoudahGeo.