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Map your photos with Google's latest feature in Picasa Web Albums
No more forgetting where you took that picture on your vacation, Google has now made it possible for users to pinpoint the exact places they took their photos by mapping photos.
A new feature called "Map My Photos" was released on Tuesday in Picasa Web Albums, lets users show exactly where on a map pictures were taken. When creating an album, fill out the Place Taken field, or drag and drop individual photos straight onto a map. It's that simple.
You can then share these maps with friends either through Picasa Web Albums or through Google Earth (by clicking on the "View in Google Earth" button on the top right). Google has set up a test gallery you can take a peek at.
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Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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VitaminCM said 5:31PM on 6-27-2007
You can already use Picasa / Google Earth to Geocode your pictures on your machine. The latitude and longitude are then embedded into the image's metadata. It would be nice if Web Albums would just pull that out of the files that you upload and place them on the map automatically. How hard can this be? There Google for god's sake.
PS. Flickr (whom I love) Also allows you to manually place your pics on a map, and also fails to do it automatically.
I have about 3000 geocoded images, first one to do this wins my undying gratitude.
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Thomas Lansen said 7:32AM on 8-09-2007
How can I download pictures in my Picasa2 album to my iPhone?
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