It is not easy to label photos with information about where you took the picture - a process that usually takes place with special software for the marriage to the deployment of these pictures were taken from a separate GPS receiver.

Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of marketing products in the world have shown that you can do with iPhoto at Macworld 2009, the primary Tuesday.

iPhoto 09 best works from photographs, which have already been tagged. This is becoming more common, as hardware support for GPS is becoming less uncommon. For example, the Nikon Coolpix P6000 has a built-in GPS receiver, and Nikon began selling its GP-1 GPS receiver, which can connect to their SLR outbreak of the mountain so the location data embedded in the photo. Apple in the iPhone can geotag his own photographs, as well as camera manufacturers say the support of GPS in the camera has become a matter of when, not if.

But the software also allows you to tag your own images. Clicking on the photo of a reflection that allows you to enter in the location, and location-specific, using the card. (Google materials back at the end of the mapping services). Helpfully, iPhoto can then spread that the location data with other pictures of similar time and they can be grouped together in a group under the name of the event.

Okay, but what can you do?
After you’ve geotagged photos that you can do with them?

On the one hand, sift through them using geographically iPhotos’ new places interface. View iPhoto if you can show the related data collection pushpins on the map, and clicking each Stseplyayuschy shows the photo.

On the other hand, you can search for photos based on where you took them, and not on any system of registration can be used. iPhoto can handle a geographical hierarchy, so if your photos are marked with “Eiffel Tower”, he will find it to search for “France” or “Paris”.

Finally, you can create a photo album, depending on the location. For people who want to create albums of their travels, it’s a good idea, especially because you can use the tags for the selection of photos to print, and add the card in the book.

There is no support for the painful part of geotagging, though: extracting data from the GPS positioning device. There are other programs that can handle that chore, including the Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, Breeze Systems’ Downloader Pro, or GPS Photo Linker.

iPhoto is included with the Mac, along with other members of iLife Suite: iMovie, Garage Band, iWeb and iDVD. People who have earlier versions can go to the iLife 09 for $ 79.

Tag, you’re it
In some glorious future, computers may be able to understand the content of photos, simply, “Look at them, allowing them to get exactly what you want, when you ask. But now it is largely up to you to add metadata, textual information such as titles, captions, and star ratings geotags. If you want to find photos of Sydney Opera House, you have to know when you have that folder to hide them, and we hope that you have tagged them with appropriate tags.

iPhoto 09, and Google Web Albums Picasa, adds yet another important mark of automation features, while “Face recognition. The program is a person, you can put a name for them, and then offers other views that it will be one judge and the same person. After you have done, you can view photos of the individual.

And if you’ve already tagged people in Facebook, it will munch these tags through the synchronization process. In Yahoo Flickr, which has a great tagging and geotagging abilities, as well as the benefits of this opportunity to synchronize.

So in the end here? Good news and bad news.

The good news is that the world of digital photography is moving to a new organizational chart, finally shed the filing-cabinet metaphor for the hard disk in a file system or Shoebox full of prints. The new label of the world is more flexible and accessible in several ways, and he is still fully compatible with older methods.

The bad news is that in order to work, you need to do a little more work getting the tags right in the first place.

For instance, I think this is worth it. Here’s an example why: My sister, for the photos at the end of the year letter, but also because I am a de facto family photographer, she looked at my pictures online. She found photos of her family was just a search for pictures of family names on Flickr. It’s a lot better, clicking on the photo album of the year, and saw that the inside.