How often are you faced with a regular metadata manipulation that your favourite image processing application just does not offer? Think of filling in your copyright data in one go, correcting your camera’s time settings for a number of images or setting your home geotags.
Apple Automator
Put the power of Phil Harvey’s excellent ExifTool and Apple’s Automator together and you will have replaced many previously tedious tasks with a simple action.
There is a variety of applications built around geotagging needs, ranging from taggers and viewers to community integration. The following compilation highlights the more notable or promising candidates, both Mac-specific and OS-independent.
Apple has just released iLife ’09, introducing geotagging as an iPhoto feature called ‘Places’. As usual, Apple is not so much a pioneer of new technologies but rather adapts to popular trends that have reached a serious momentum. So it is worth having a closer look at geotagging and the available software for the Mac.
Apple's iPhoto displays locations of images as pins on a map.