29 October 2007

Cool new Leopard Preview feature

I've just come back from a couple of weeks away and while geocoding the photos using the usual tools and now Geotagger from Craig Stanton (Craig also developed the iPhotoToGoogleEarth plugin for iPhoto 6 that I use), I discovered that Preview in Leopard on the Macintosh has a cool new feature when you use it to look at geocoded photographs.

Try this at home:
  1. Open a geocoded photo in Preview v4. If you don't have a geocoded photo, here's one of the Warrumbungle National Park from Siding Springs [warning: 4.7MB file] that I prepared earlier. Save it to disk before opening in.
  2. Choose Inspector from the Tools menu.
  3. Click the 'i' tab in the Inspector window at the top in the centre.
  4. Click the GPS tab in the second line of tabs in the Inspector window.


You should see the location data for the photo and the photo's location on the map. Click the Locate button to see the location of the photo in Google Maps.