06.30.07
Picassa goes mobile, put pictures on a map
Map My Photos allows users to specify the location of a new album, and then position individual photos on a map.
Picasa Web Albums for mobile devices makes all your photos available on a cell phone or other wireless device, even if you don’t have enough onboard storage for them all. In addition to viewing the contents of your own and other users’ web albums, you can add comments to other people’s photos.Another new feature for Picassa is that you can connect each of your photos to a location.
If you’re on a particular picture page, follow the “Add location” link at the bottom right. A Google Maps widget pops up on the page and lets you search for a location. Once you found your preferred location for the item – say, a holiday snapshot was taken in Rome, Italy, so you’ve now located Rome – you can save it to close the map widget again. If you do this for a couple of photos for an album, you can then view them collectively on a map accessible from a “View map” link on an indivudal’s album frontpage.
When you share an album with friends, they can see your best photos arrayed on a map (or Google Earth). It’s the perfect way to showcase a memorable road trip or a globe-trotting vacation. Mapped albums include a link that downloads a KML file which shows the photos as a Google Earth overlay.
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