Apple’s Final Macworld

by KUMIKO YAMAZAKI on January 8, 2009 • apple google maps • COMMENT

By now, most of you have heard about Tuesday’s Macworld without Steve Jobs (he’s recovering, hooray!). His sub, Paul Schiller, introduced the new iLife ’09 package that included a healthy dose of map related products.

What I’m referring to is the iPhoto ’09. Aside from fancy face recognition and Flickr/Facebook support, this new version clearly takes advantage of geotagged photos.

Here we see geotagged photos displayed on Google Maps within iPhoto. Organizing photos by date is great but sometimes browsing by location is the best method.

It also has the capability to convert lat/longs to city names.. I’m thinking iPhoto ’09 takes care of it.. either that or I don’t properly know how to use my iPhone. (photo1) (photo2)

The next maps are from when you wish to create a photo album for printing purposes. It’s a real map!! Pretty nifty if you ask me. Where they pulled it from, I can’t tell. But from what I see, it automatically colors in the subject country, populates it with cities in which the photos were taken, and arrows to tell you the direction in which you were traveling. I think it’s fantastic although I haven’t come across anyone who seems as interested or excited as me.

And last but not least, we have a Google Earth-like globe featured in iMovie ’09. Again, very well made and looks cartographically appealing as well! How smooth it is, I won’t know until someone buys me iLife ’09. Ok? Thanks!