iPhoto 6.0.5 Hidden Google Maps Integration And Possible Apple GPS-enabled Device (Camera/iPod/PDA/Phone)?

[ChrisA]

Using GSP and Iphoto only makes sense if the photo's have the GSP location information as part of the photo. So that mean that the Camera taking the picture has a GSP reciever in it, which is great outside, but GPS does not work indoors

Maybe you can use the map interface to ADD the GPS infor to the photos. For example, first you select a few photos. then you select "change location" and then click on a map of where the images were taken. Later you can search on the location

 

[McScooby]

as much as GPS meta-tagging would sure have the wow factor on the '07 release of iPhoto. the recent rumour only mentions that iPhoto has a missing button that contains a link that goes to google maps.

Linking this tidbit, to a supposed handheld device that apple is developing combined with the yet to be seen iPhone seems to be blowing things out of proportion, somehow the cynic in me says that all the next release may do is link your keywords / album names to google maps without the precise location where a photo was taken. It sure will be a busy MW'07 if it does transpire though!

 

[whatever]

Well, it looks like there will be alot of new features and devices soon from apple.

lets hope apple keeps up the good work, advancements in technology, software and hardware will continue making users lifes easier.

things like smart device/cell phones, itv media center hubs (also HDTV including Blu-Ray), continuing development of more software and making apple an all media type system where all aspects can work seamlessly.

looking forward to the new stuff apple comes with.

I know this is off track, but if companies like Apple with the delivery of video content via the web and the cable and dish networks offering a wider array of on demand offereings, the day of hard media (DVD, Blue Ray, DVD-HD) are coming to an end. I for one have hundreds of DVDs, but haven't bought one in months, because either I see the movie in the Theater (the ulitimate experience) or I catch it in HD from cable. My DVDs are just taking up space in my house.

Sony and others can do what they want to try to force upon us another technology, but just like DVD-Audio, they're all doomed to fail.

I now return you to normally scheduled discussion.

 

[ChrisA]

I think I can remember where a picture was taken.

Then you will be able to tag the photo after in is in the computer with location. If the camera had a GPS then it could tag the photo.. Either way then you could search, years laters for "photos of my daughtrer taken in France between 2007 and 2010." and they'd pop up. Location tags are a good thing.

 

[jsw]

gentle reminder of how many patents we have seen come and go without anything coming of it.

Indeed. Often patents are filed defensively to prevent others from taking a good idea, even if the patent holder opts not to develop a product.

I hope we get what we all think we're getting, but we've been mislead before....

 

[Daringescape]

I would just like a Microsoft Streets and trips equivalent for the Mac. There is nothing out there that comes close - You know Apple could come up with something even better.

 

[iGary]

We use something very similar for a site I 'm consulting on, if I understand correctly.

We take aerials with a Nikon D200 that has a GPS hooked into it on the aircraft, so every image has a GPS stamp in the EXIF.

Those images get loaded into an SQL database and a bunch of PHP scripts that match the images with a Tele-Atlas map - each location gets loaded up and given its own page depending on location - one main aerial image, a map with a crosshair showing the location, weather based on zip code.

This sounds like fun for iPhoto.

 

[cherrypop]

This is so 1984.

I'm totally pro-GPS imprints on photos, but we're eating up technology that has two very different sides to it potentially.

hidden references in iPhoto 6.0.5[/url] that show Apple is preparing iPhoto for integration with Google Maps. "

 

[macam]

You are going to be so disappointed when they announce the phone and you realize that they just released a phone. Yes, the phone is designed by Apple and has a nice UI, maybe one somewhat unique feature, but you're essentially going to be getting a fairly regular phone with a feature that most people would never use often.

I realize that it hasn't been released yet, but the iPhone will never live up to the hype. The number of people who have said they're waiting for it to be released in order to buy it is staggering.......and a bit scary. I wouldn't be waiting for a product when I haven't seen a photo of it, when I haven't seen a features list, a technical specs page, or even a release date. That's crazy.

Dude, I fully realise that this is a pipe dream... and that it might not happen - but seriously - don't be a buzz kill!? These forums are all about dreaming.

In my reality - I fully expect the iPhone to be a phone. I just hope that it's a good phone... I will probably buy it... I'm just an apple freak - I bought the iPod before it got really popular... I just want to be one of the first to have one... having the extra features will be a frickin bonus if you ask me... how awesome would it be - come on admit it if this phone had all the features you would seriously consider getting one! No?

Macam

 

[e28]

I think embedded gps is an excellent feature for a camera(phone).

If you check out smugmug (http://www.smugmug.com/hack/maps-overview), they have the ability to mash up your photos to google maps - but you currently have to tell it where each picture was taken. With embedded gps information in the metadata of the photo, this could work automatically (or as steve would say - "otomatically").

 

[Maestro64]

Not trying to shoot down a good idea here, however, I do not see using GSP and Google maps as a mainstream use of Iphoto or some other PDA type application. I do see some very specifice uses where this can be very useful.

However, the technology is to problematic at this point, like I pointed out GPS does not work indoors, and someone pointed out that it could easily assume the nearest location you were at outside before going indoors. This assumes you keep the devices on all the time and not just turn it on when you went indoors. For the most part Cell phone does this, but a camera which most people use to take picture will not be. So all you got is location that camera was last outdoors which could be 100's if miles away.

Some did hit on the idea that might work and is was that website where people posted pictures form cell phone and they were linked to a google map location so people could see points of interest. All this feature allows people to do is have it all done for you verse having to remember where you took the picture and then find the location on google maps and attach it.

 

[quigleybc]

I'll put this article in the "ya right" category.

 

[slffl]

All I really need is the ability to tag a photo using Google Maps/Earth. It would be nice to have it tagged when I take it, but if I'm able to use an integrated iphoto/google maps to tag photos, and then be able to integrate the photos into google maps/earth, that's good enough for me.

 

[achie25]

Introducing Apple Galileo™. All-in-one PDA, digital camera, phone and mp3 player.

Would be AWESOME! Exactly what I have been wanting. You know it is only a matter of time. I'll take 2 please!!

 

[Maestro64]

Introducing Apple Galileo™. All-in-one PDA, digital camera, phone and mp3 player.

And what we all get is is 4 things in one that do not work as they should. I understand convergance of technology, however a phone needs a keypad, (maybe not later when voice tech works better) a PDA needs a larger screen to view thing and maybe write on, a camera needs good lens capable of zoom and other adjustments you do not get with fix lens and finally MP3 plays need stereo head sets which a Phone does not.

So put this all together does not give use a great solution. I beleive in time this will change, But i rather have a phone that works great a phone verses where we have not.

I blame the "Kids" becuase they all seem willing to accept lesser quality for more gagets. The phone companies spent billions of $ and 30 year making your phone calls clear and now everyone is willing to give up thier land line for a cell phone for lesser quality and cost more.

 

[peharri]

Absolutely, that is exactly what this is!

Of course it isn't.

That said, a portable device that happens to include a mobile phone radio (and is presumably usable as a phone - that doesn't make it a phone any more than a car is a pick-up truck) would be a possibility.

I'll accept that.

Something like the Nokia 770, but with GPRS/EDGE/UMTS in addition to 802.11. Yeah. I can go with that. Some of the supposed prototyped/patented designs kind look like a Nokia 770 too.

For the reasons I've outlined ad-nausium though, something that competes directly with what the bulk of Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, etc's, business strikes me as improbable.

But a pocketable gadget that successfully integrates various pieces of personal technology and wireless networking seems, well, it's the kind of thing Apple might call a mobile version of "me" ("me" being the user) wouldn't it? They could call it... Mobile Me...

Now, who has that trademark?

 

[tny]

Using GSP and Iphoto only makes sense if the photo's have the GSP location information as part of the photo. So that mean that the Camera taking the picture has a GSP reciever in it, which is great outside, but GPS does not work indoors

1. The GPS receiver could cache the last known (outdoor) position and use that in the meta tags for the photo.

2. Folks are working on getting GPS to work indoors on a small chip: see <http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=3053> especially this paragraph:

In the Taylor system, the GPS receiver is relieved of the burden of searching out the satellite frequencies, demodulating satellite navigation data, and computing satellite coordinates, because this information is provided over a separate wireless link. Of course, in the cell phone environment, a separate wireless link is readily available. Over the last few years, cellular handset makers such as Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Qualcomm cooperated in the adoption of standard formats for A-GPS information interchange. We now have A-GPS standards for GSM, CDMA, and US-TDMA wireless technologies.

 

[BobVB]

Essential Features

But the fact remains, most new cell phones in the U.S. at least already have GPS built in so the location of the phone can be tracked by emergency responders.

Actually I was told by someone that should know that all the GSM networks don't support the GPS subcarrier and calculate your position by tower triangulation instead. Since GSM is the dominate form in the industry in the us (unless Sprints bigger than I think) most phones probably don't have GPS built in. (just an interesting factoid)

And yes a cellphone/camera/GPS thingee would be cool but they can't forget the essentials and a phone without voice dial is a phone not worth having no matter what other features it might have. I mean don't all states have a 'handsfree only' while driving law by now?

 

[840quadra]

Tagging maps with photos and vice versa is nothing new.

A friend of mine is working on this project called grapheety. A community related group in which you can meet people in your local area, and tag maps for all kinds of uses.

I am curious what apples reasons are for google maps integration, however if it gave users the option to tag photogenic locations, put maps on their ipod (without doing it other ways) including integrated pictures (pictures of landmarks or buildings in that area), I would love to see this!

 

[peharri]

You are going to be so disappointed when they announce the phone and you realize that they just released a phone. Yes, the phone is designed by Apple and has a nice UI, maybe one somewhat unique feature, but you're essentially going to be getting a fairly regular phone with a feature that most people would never use often.

The basis of the "iPhone" rumour is that Apple would release something that is just a phone integrated with an iPod. This has generated excitement because many Apple enthusiasts would like to see Apple's energies directed at this. People will exaggerate their RAZR's flaws in the believe that Apple can fix anything.

It is not based upon the idea that it is actually a good idea for Apple to do this, and right now Apple doing this would prevent them from licensing iTunes in future and thus consign the iTS to oblivion as the minority provider of online music. No device that competes with mainstream Motorola or Nokia products is ever likely to leave the Apple design studios.

So anyone expecting a "regular phone" (with or without a built-in iPod and/or camera) from Apple is more likely to be disappointed than someone expecting something groundbreaking that happens to incorporate mobile phone technology.

 

[FreeState]

My roommate

My roommate is taking a geography class in college right now. (Just an FYI, he is an older student in his 30's).

His teacher works for google on their maps. He has slipped in class several times saying Apple is working on putting GPS into the iPod. (He, the teacher, knows this because it is what he does full time for Google).

Anyway, this looks like the GPS in iPhoto is not related to the iPod, but eh you never know, iPhoto does work with the iPod in a way now as it is...

 

[tjwett]

My roommate is taking a geography class in college right now. (Just an FYI, he is an older student in his 30's).

His teacher works for google on their maps. He has slipped in class several times saying Apple is working on putting GPS into the iPod. (He, the teacher, knows this because it is what he does full time for Google).

Anyway, this looks like the GPS in iPhoto is not related to the iPod, but eh you never know, iPhoto does work with the iPod in a way now as it is...

"The Not-So-Silent Cartographer"

 

[Mitch1984]

This is how I think it'll work.

You'll search for a location and then you click "Photo's took in this location."
Providing people who've took photos in that location have shared there photo's.

Imagine searching Google Maps/iPhoto for Photos in your favourite nightclub?

 

[nagromme]

GPS is one of the least-discussed potential Apple gadget features, but one of the ones I'd most be interested in! (Not for iPhoto, although that would be cool I want a GPS for street navigation and for geocaching.)

 

[amancalledsun]

Flickr already stores location information for photos - not GPS-based, but you can browse maps and assign pictures to a specific location where you took them, and then search/browse all users shared photos by location. I could see iPhoto doing something similar, with the add-in of recognizing GPS data.