IsWhere Adds Pictures to Google Earth

Red Hen Systems, Inc. (CO, USA) has released IsWhere for Google Earth, a utility that displays where GPS-tagged photos were taken. IsWhere works with any image that has GPS data stored in the image’s EXIF header. This new utility provides a method for photographers and photo analysts to quickly verify and communicate the spatial location of photos. With a right mouse click or drag-and-drop selection, users pass images to IsWhere to quickly display them and their locations inside the Windows version of Google Earth.

Creating a Red Hen Photo that has GPS information embedded with the digital photo can be done in several ways. GPS data can be written to the photo at the time of collection with different integrated camera/GPS solutions such as the Nikon digital SLR cameras (D1X, D1H, D2Xs, D2X, D2H and D200) with Red Hen’s DX-GPS, or with the Ricoh Caplio Pro G3 GPS-ready digital camera. Alternately, using only a GPS and digital still camera, images can be matched with a GPS log file using Red Hen’s patented time-matching methodology, available in two packages: 1) PixPoint for ESRI’s ArcGIS software, and 2) MediaMapper.