Overview

GPS Tracks

Photo Annotation

Geotagging

Release Notes

The newest version is PhotoLinker 2.2.9

Changes in 2.2.9

• Release date: 2011-05-08

Features:

• Added a preference that allows the altitude field to become directly user editable.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a crasher with the NMEA importer.
• Added some small tweaks to the google reverse geocoder to prevent hangs when a quota is exceeded.
• Changed the name of TerraServer to MSRMaps.
• Waypoints now retain their size, shape and color after restart.
• Other small bug fixes.

Changes in 2.2.8

• Release date: 2011-02-04

Features:

• Ability to reverse geocoding from existing tags. Right-click on the photo or use the Photos menu.
• Support for NRW files.

Bug Fixes:

• Major fixes to reverse geocoding, including

  • Fixed a bug that caused some photos to not reverse geocode from google.com.
  • Major performance enhancements should generally result in faster tagging.
  • Properly overwriting prior reverse geocoding results.
  • Ability to reverse geocoding from existing tags.

• Fixed a crasher with the NMEA importer.

• Fixed the date and time format on XMP sidecar files for the GPSDateTime tag.
• Fixed a crasher when saving changes back to iPhoto.
• Several other bug fixes.

Changes in 2.2.7

• Release date: 2010-11-25
• Fixed bug introduced in version 2.2.6 which disabled writing to XMP sidecar files.
• Fixed crasher introduced with recent changes to google's reverse geocoder.

Changes in 2.2.6

• Release date: 2010-10-27

Features:

• iPhoto '11 support added.
• PhotoLinker now tries to add an EXIF header to photos without one (some scanning software create images without EXIF headers) in order to increase compatibility with other software.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed intermittent crasher while saving to iPhoto.

Changes in 2.2.5

• Release date: 2010-09-30
• Fixed intermittent crasher during saving and geotagging operations.
• Fixed intermittent crasher that occurs while reading and writing from the iPhoto database on multiple threads.
• Fixed several other more minor crashers.

Changes in 2.2.4

• Release date: 2010-09-10
• Additional performance enhancements when saving.

Changes in 2.2.3

• Release date: 2010-09-08
• Improved performance when saving to large iPhoto libraries.
• Fixed several different crashers.

Changes in 2.2.2

• Release date: 2010-06-21
• Fixed a bug preventing photos from iPhoto from being geotagged.

Changes in 2.2.1

• Release date: 2010-06-20
• Fixed a bug that caused the iPhoto Media Browser not to load.
• Eliminated a crash on a malformed altitude tag.
• The location search field now sizes correctly.
• Fixed a random crash that occurs when using the iPhoto Media Browser.

Changes in 2.2

• Release date: 2010-06-18

Features:

• iPhoto integration
  • Read photos from your iPhoto library with the new integrated Media Browser.
  • Read and write tags (including geotags) from iPhoto '08.
• New topography maps for the US and Canada from MyTopo.
• Ability to synchronize metadata sources (image, sidecar, and iPhoto) so all have the same tags.
• A contextual menu for photos to remove, save, synchronize, reveal in Finder, etc.
• Metadata templates are now saved in the Application Support/PhotoLinker/MetadataTemplates folder. This makes it easy to share templates.
• Scroll wheel zooming on the map.
• Support for PNGs.
• New version of GPSBabel.
• Spell checking in the description field.
• Integrated crash reporter optionally sends crash reports back to the developers when the application is relaunched.
• A read/write log (located under the Photos menu) which shows the status of each read and write operation.
• Files with .txt extensions are now checked to see if they're NMEA files.
• Updated Metadata Working Group compliance for the changes in revision 1.0.1.

Bug Fixes:

• Waypoints now show in the Near Photos smart list.
• Latitude and Longitude are now written in a consistent order throughout the application.
• Updates to the tooltips for the metadata fields.
• Fixed some outstanding issues related to setting, shifting and copying date and time tags.
• Fixed the advanced time zone features in the preferences. Regression in 2.1.
• Date and time column in the table view now reacts to a time zone change.
• Geotagging is now consistently undoable.
• Eliminated the option to set tags with only hour precision. While is this supported by the EXIF standard, it is not support by XMP.
• ExifTool key viewer now properly formats array values.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't manually register after the demo timed out.
• A number of crashers were resolved as well.

Changes in 2.1.2

• Release date: 2010-03-01
• Made some fixes and changes to the google reverse geocoder.
• Fixed the "x photos can be geotagged" description in the geotagging console. Regression in 2.1.1.
• Fixed intermittent crashed caused by NSAnimation weirdness related to map zooming.
• Multiple bug fixes to the Date and Time Shifter.
• Changed wording on menu to remove track file from database.

Changes in 2.1.1

• Release date: 2010-02-19
• Fixed NMEA import bug that caused incorrect times to be imported. Note that you will need to remove the track file and reimport NMEA files. Use the File Browser to locate the file, right-click on the name, and select Remove Source List.
• Fixed crasher when loading photos and sidecars with empty original date and time tags (2.0 Regression).
• Fixed bug that caused dates to fail to sort in the list view (2.0 Regression).
• Clarified GPSBabel licensing information.
• Refactored the Track and Waypoint browser and prepared for localizations.

Changes in 2.1

• Release date: 2010-01-22

Features:

• Added support for Microsoft Bing Maps, these are high quality international aerial, satellite and road maps.
• Added an address search field to quickly find locations on the map; helpful for manual geotagging.
• Added enhanced date & time shifting, setting and copying tools. Includes support for adding dates to scanned photos.
• Added native support for reading NMEA log files, used by several GPS receivers.
• Added an "ExifTool Key Viewer" to examine the details of the photo read/write operations.
• Added option to automatically move PhotoLinker to the Applications folder.
• Added automatic check for updates.
• Added support for Sony raw formats ARW and SR2 (with ExifTool version 8.06).
• Added preference to not update the file modification date when writing tags.

Bug Fixes:

• Remove the use of the EXIF UserComment (which mapped to Caption) tag per the updated MWG spec 1.0.1.
• Fixed a bug where track distances would be computed incorrectly when the initial points didn't contain a lat/lon.
• Added a tag for the file creation date.
• Fixed UTF8 error when receiving data from google's reverse geocoder.
• Fixed a bug that caused PhotoLinker to hang when selecting lots of photos on 10.6.
• The default map location and scale also automatically sets the default map.
• Fixed an issue related to auto-fit and auto-reveal when using USGS maps.

Changes in version 2.0.5

• Release date: 2009-11-17
• Fixes the track manager database for 10.6.2. 10.6.2 is now required for all 10.6 users.
• Upgraded GPSBabel to the latest beta.

Changes in version 2.0.4

• Release date: 2009-09-05
• Fixed track additional track importer crasher on 10.6.
• Upgraded ExifTool to version 7.89 (genuinely adding support for rw2 and rwl raw file types).
• Added the very beginnings of help documentation.

Changes in version 2.0.3

• Release date: 2009-08-31
• Fixed intermittent crashing during import of track files on 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Changes in version 2.0.2

• Release date: 2009-08-28
• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support.
• Added support for rw2 and rwl raw file types.
• Fixed crasher when writing to city, state, and country tags in some situations.
• Fixed license validation (and generation) with UTF8 characters.
• Reads the correct DateTimeOriginal tag from NEF files.
• Fixed incorrect reporting of unsaved changes with sidecars.

Changes in version 2.0.1

• Release date: 2009-05-14
• Fixed expiration bug.
• Fixed bug where the app launched in the background.
• Tweak the zoom-to-fit algorithm.

Changes in version 2.0.0

• Release date: 2009-05-09
• Initial release.