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PhotoLinker Changelog

What's new in PhotoLinker 3.5.9

Dec 3, 2016
  • This update includes several bug fixes:
  • Fixed errors when saving to files over a network.
  • Fixed undo.
  • Fixed graphics issues when dropping photos onto the map.
  • Fixed Spanish localization issues in the preferences.
  • Other minor issues.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.8 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Fixed an issue which prevented full functionality on Mac OS X 10.9.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.7 Build 572 (May 22, 2015)

  • Fixed an intermittent crasher when geotagging photos.
  • Embedded libperl into the app.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.6 Build 571 (May 1, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug that prevented new XMP sidecar files from being generated.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.5 (Apr 20, 2015)

  • Fixes bug that prevented writing to XMP sidecar files.
  • Major overhaul of the UI to prepare for more translations; please report all bugs!
  • Numerous other minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.3 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Fixed a crash when deleting tracks and waypoints.
  • Fixed a bug that caused occasionally the wrong time zone to be applied.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented large numbers (1000s) of photo from being imported.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented some NMEA (.log) files from being imported.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.2 (Jun 21, 2014)

  • Added Spanish localization.
  • Fixed a bug that limited the number of photos that could be annotated without restarting.
  • Added additional error checking.

New in PhotoLinker 3.5.1 (May 17, 2014)

  • Added minimum OS version.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Aperture photos to try to sync with iPhoto.
  • Fixed a bug where xmp files with spaces in their names failed to write.
  • Fixed an issue where the original/master iPhoto and Aperture files were not written to.
  • Added additional error messages when writing to file.

New in PhotoLinker 3.1.1 Build 551 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Fixed crasher introduced in 10.9 that occurs when manually geotagging a photo to the map.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some exporters not to load on 10.7.
  • Restored the crash reporter (please send those crash reports!)
  • Fixed a 10.9 regression that caused the 'pie wedge' icon for image direction not to show.

New in PhotoLinker 3.1 Build 549 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This version is not compatible with 10.6.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.6 Build 547 (Oct 19, 2013)

  • This is the last update for 10.6 users! In order to support Mac OS X 10.9, the next version of PhotoLinker will drop support of 10.6.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.5 Build 546 (Oct 19, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed crasher that often occurs when date shifting.
  • Fixed crasher that occurs after canceling a batch geotagging operation.
  • Fixed crasher that occurs when stepping forward in single geotagging mode.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.5 Build 546 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • Fixed crasher that often occurs when date shifting.
  • Fixed crasher that occurs after canceling a batch geotagging operation.
  • Fixed crasher that occurs when stepping forward in single geotagging mode.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.4 Build 545 (Sep 5, 2012)

  • Add support for GateKeeper in 10.8
  • Copyright status and rating are now correctly enabled
  • Fixed a bug where the photo selection didn't correspond to the map selection in some cases.
  • Prevent a crash when geotagging to two track points at identical times.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.3 Build 541 (May 3, 2012)

  • New 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.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.2 Build 539 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a new bug introduced by 3.0.1 earlier today that caused PhotoLinker to freeze after geotagging.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0.1 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • Bug 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.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0 Build 533 (Apr 10, 2012)

  • Features:
  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 3.0 Build 527 Beta 12 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • New 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 526 Beta 11 (Mar 8, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 525 Beta 10 (Mar 2, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 524 Beta 9 (Feb 28, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 523 Beta 8 (Feb 20, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 521 Beta 7 (Feb 10, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 520 Beta 6 (Dec 27, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 518 Beta 5 (Dec 20, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 516 Beta 4 (Dec 13, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.5 Build 5.0.4 (Aug 17, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.9 (May 9, 2011)

  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.8 (Feb 4, 2011)

  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.7 (Nov 26, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.6 (Oct 27, 2010)

  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.5 (Sep 30, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.4 (Sep 10, 2010)

  • Additional performance enhancements when saving.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.3 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Improved performance when saving to large iPhoto libraries.
  • Fixed several different crashers.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.2 (Jun 21, 2010)

  • Fixed a bug preventing photos from iPhoto from being geotagged.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2.1 (Jun 21, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.2 (Jun 19, 2010)

  • Features:
  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.1.2 (Mar 1, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.1.1 (Feb 19, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.1 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.0.5 (Nov 23, 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.

New in PhotoLinker 2.0.4 (Sep 7, 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.