Comments on: Map your photos with iPhoto ’09

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:50:29 +0000

Or cheaper if you buy it in the USA. It cost me about US $90 plus shipping.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:33:02 +0000

Thanks Jonathan, that sounds very useful. I see the ATP Photo Finder Pro website is at http://photofinder.atpinc.com/what.html in case other readers want to learn more about it.

It looks as though it costs around 100 UK pounds.

That’s something to go on my wishlist…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:44:23 +0000

I’ve been using an ATP Photo Finder Pro for about 8 months (my serial number on the thing is in the low-100′s), and it works great, as long as it’s not too cold and the batteries are changed often (after every 16-20 hours of use). I just insert my SD card into the device and it automatically writes the GPS data to the images without use of a computer, so that when I upload to iPhoto, the photos are already very accurately tagged, with nothing further required for them to show up exactly where I took them. It’s just a matter of synching the camera clock with the GPS clock so the device knows where each photo was taken.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:56:00 +0000

I’m so glad you found this Post useful Murphy Mac. Thanks for the feedback.

Have fun with the GPS stuff.

By: Murphy Mac

Murphy Mac — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:45:55 +0000

Couldn’t see that GPS stuff had to be turned on in iPhoto until I read your post – didni’t know why my iPhone photos weren’t mapping. Thanks for the help !

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:56:42 +0000

Thanks for the link. Glad you found the article useful. There are SO MANY ways to do this…I think we could put together quite a cookbook if we gathered together everyone’s recipe for attaching GPS locations to photos and using them with maps.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:46:55 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Jo.

i hadn’t thought of geocachers, but I guess you guys would love this kind of thing. :-)

By: Jo Fothergill

Jo Fothergill — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:37:34 +0000

I read this then went to Maria’s site and read her information.

I have a Nokia 6121c – no GPS but the photo EXIF records the time the photos were taken. I also have a Garmin GPS60 handheld GPSr that I use for geocaching.

Strangely I had just got back from geocaching and had taken a couple of photos so decided to see if I could use the phone & GPSr & software to geotag my photos.

I downloaded “Loadmytracks” and “GPSPhotoLinker” both free programs for the Mac.

“Load my tracks” connects via USB to the GPSr and downloads any tracks and saves them as gpx files. “GPSPhotoLinker” connects the two – remarkably well.

iPhoto isn’t recognising the geotags but if I use my standalone flickr uploader the geotags are visible in Flickr.

thanks for the very good idea!