May 3rd, 2012New Features:
· New maps!
· High resolution USGS topography maps, both 7.5 minute quads as well as 1x2 degree (1:250k) scale maps.
· USFS maps.
· Two collection of historical maps.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a crash when saving a metadata template.
· Now remembers last GPS used.
· Minor fixes.
April 17th, 2012Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a new bug introduced by 3.0.1 earlier today that caused PhotoLinker to freeze after geotagging.
April 17th, 2012Bug Fixes:
· Fixed crasher for 10.6 users when using Single Mode.
· Selecting a photo from the map no longer selects all photos.
· Selecting a photo from the map after running the slideshow now works.
· Fixed a few other random crashers.
April 10th, 2012Features:
· Got direction?
· PhotoLinker now lets you add image direction to your photos and displays the direction on the map! Details here
· To try it out, just select a photo, then right-click on the map---or drag in an existing photo taken from your iPhone 3GS or newer.
· You can now also add the latitude and longitude shown (as opposed to created). This lets you distinguish between the where you took the photo, and where the subject of the photo is.
· Improved manual geotagging: drag the photo, drop it on the map, and boom!, you've geotagged your photo.
· Slide show. Present your photos along with a map.
· Export Images. Export resized images that contain all of the correctly formatted metadata.
· Export metadata. Export photo metadata in a number of different formats.
· Support for new GPS receivers.
· Speed. Major speed improvements in reading and writing to photos.
· Exporter plugin protocol SDK is now available.
· 64-bit only.
Minor Features:
· Added improved resolution for Bing Maps.
· Zoom the map by clicking on the mountains next to the slider. This zooms in even increments to the optimal resolution of the map tiles.
· Pressing spacebar now activates Quicklook for photos in the photo browser.
· Bumped ExifTool to version 8.85.
· Improved the preferences for geotagging and reverse geocoding.
· New menu options (main and contextual) to support the image direction and location shown tags.
· Supports reading and writing to sidecar files using Adobe's practice of always writing a sidecar for raw files, and never for other images.
· Multiple keywords and people can be added entirely with the keyboard by tabbing to the next cell.
· Added support for PhaseOne IIQ files as well as Sony's SR2 files.
March 20th, 2012New Features:
· Added a new default for reading and writing to sidecar files that follows Adobe's practice of always writing a sidecar for raw files, and never for other images.
Bug Fixes:
· Manual writing to altitude preference now works again.
· Fixed multiple crashers related to poor thread-safety.
· Fixed a few memory leaks.
· Version number bump to better reflect the new OS requirements and underlying changes.
March 8th, 2012· Additional speed increases, this time to saving changes to photos.
· Geotagging console now works correctly when opened at launch time.
· Made a significant number of enhancements to increase thread-safety across the board. This eliminates several crashes.
March 2nd, 2012· Additional speed enhancements to photo loading.
· Bug fixes to the date and time tools.
· Switching between list and browser view retains location.
· Geotagging console and map now open to the last position when the app was closed (unless overridden in preferences).
· Multiple keywords and people can be added entirely with the keyboard now.
February 28th, 2012· Further increased the import speed of new photos.
· Fixed crasher when exporting photos to a new format.
· Removed MyTopo from map data sources.
· Fixed broken TerraServer URL.
February 20th, 2012· Updated and added new documentation for reverse geocoding, new geotagging methods, location created, location shown and image direction.
· Added new documentation and links to the plugin architecture that is now supported.
· Fixed numerous bugs in the slide show.
· Fixed a crash while reverse geocoding.
· Fixed a crash while geotagging.
· Massively speedup the loading of new photos.
· The loading photo status now updates properly.
· Fixed a bug that caused altitude to not be read from NMEA files in some conditions.
February 10th, 2012· Fixed massive slowdown for 10.6 users.
· Fixed an error that causes PhotoLinker not to launch for some new users!
· Fixed intermittent geotagging crash.
· Fixed thumbnail viewer alignment in 10.7.
· Updated to ExifTool 8.76
· Took another stab at fixing the highly intermittent bug that crashes the photo browser.
December 27th, 2011· Fixed a crash that occurs while geotagging.
· Geotagging linker points now shrink using the correct animation.
· iPhoto syncing badge shows up in the toolbar correctly again.
· Italian localization should be back and fully functional.
· The date time original tag should now correctly pull from the date time digitized tag, as per MWG recommedations.
· May have fixed a highly intermittent (but annoyingly persistent) bug that crashes the photo browser.
December 20th, 2011· Fixed a crash that prevented the Italian localized version of PhotoLinker from opening.
· Fixed a crash that occurs when reverse geocoding.
· Fixed a crash that occurs when changing the time zone.
· Fixed a crash that occurs after date/time shifting, then saving.
· Fixed a bug that causes the reverse geocoding preferences not to be respected.
· Added a contextual menu and a new button to access the exporters.
December 13th, 2011· Includes significant changes and I need your help finding bugs. The entire codebase has been refactored in order modernize the code and make PhotoLinker more reliable. Most notably, PhotoLinker's memory management has transitioned to automatic reference counting (ARC) from garbage collection (GC). This represents a huge amount of work and, if all goes smoothly, you should notice no changes other than fewer random crashes. However, because the so much of the underlying code has changed, there may be some new bugs introduced in this version. Please send me bug reports and crash reports.
· Also note that the code is now 64-bit only. This means that there are some machines that are capable of running 10.6, but are not capable of running PhotoLinker.
August 17th, 2011· PhotoLinker now lets you add image direction to your photos and displays the direction on the map! To try it out, just select a photo, then right-click on the map.
· You can now also add the latitude and longitude shown (as opposed to created). This lets you distinguish between the where you took the photo, and where the subject of the photo is. Again, right-click on the map to try this out.
· Improved manual geotagging: drag the photo, drop it on the map, and boom!, you've geotagged your photo.
· Exporters/Plugins (look under the new menu, for now)
· Slide show. Present your photos along with a map.
· Metadata. Export photo metadata in a number of different formats.
· Images. Export resized images that contain all of the correctly formatted metadata.
· The plugin protocol for the exporters will be released as soon as time allows. The metadata exporter and the simple file exporter will also be released as open source. Please let me know if you're interested now.
May 9th, 2011Features:
· 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.
February 4th, 2011Features:
· 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.
November 26th, 2010· 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.
October 27th, 2010Features:
· 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.
September 30th, 2010· 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.
September 10th, 2010· Additional performance enhancements when saving.
September 9th, 2010· Improved performance when saving to large iPhoto libraries.
· Fixed several different crashers.
June 21st, 2010· Fixed a bug preventing photos from iPhoto from being geotagged.
June 21st, 2010· 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.
June 19th, 2010Features:
· iPhoto integration
· Read photos from your iPhoto library with the new integrated Media Browser.
· Read and write tags (including geotaxis) 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.
March 1st, 2010· 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.
February 19th, 2010· 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.
January 22nd, 2010Features:
· 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.
November 23rd, 2009· 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.
September 7th, 2009· 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.
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