I’ve always been a huge fan of geotagging pictures – it gives immediate context to memorable snapshots, and when you’re travelling, it can be really hard remembering where exactly each one was taken. Although I’m glad that my BlackBerry natively geotags pictures, the data is buried in its EXIF data, which is only preserved if you got through arduous sideloading onto PC, and then uploading to your web service (GPSed is the only app that I’ve seen that makes pictures easily shareable). Luckily for iPhone users, Google’s location-aware picture-sharing service, Panoramio, now has an app for iPhone that lets you share geotagged pictures over the air. After that, folks on Google Maps and Earth will be able to see your pictures once they’re approved. It would be cool if it all synced up with your Picasa account, but its relationship with Panoramio is still hazy. With an army of iPhone users sharing pictures to Google Maps, I could see Panoramio quickly becoming as useful as Street View. Interested? Grab Panoramio for free from the iTunes App Store.
[via Panoramio]