Windows Phone App Review: Image Map

Image Map for Windows Phone

Hither's a peachy Windows Phone app to help you think where a photo was taken. Prototype Map volition not only map out where your photos were taken only as well display the Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) information on your images. The EXIF information will reveal every little tid bit of information on your photograph including the camera used, the camera settings, and software used to edit the image.

Image Map pulls everything together in a very nice package to give you lot a easy to follow route map for your photos.

When you outset launch Image Map, the app will go through your prototype galleries and map your photos that have GPS tags on a NAVTEQ map. In one case completed your primary page will be a map view with four push controls and a 3-dot bill of fare beneath.

Image Map map view

From the map view if you tap on a thumbnail image yous volition pull up a row of thumbnails of images taken at this particular location. Just choose the epitome you would like to view the EXIF on and you'll be sent to the EXIF pages. The 4 buttons at the bottom of the map include zoom in, zoom out, refresh and cull (an image) buttons. The choose push button lets you select via the Pictures Hub to view on the EXIF pages (e.g. images that don't accept location data in the EXIF).

Paradigm Map's three-dot card pulls up options to toggle between road and aerial map views, access the app's settings and view the about screen. Settings requite you options to:

Map images without location data
Choose which map view will be the default view
Choose how your location display is formatted
Turn on/off your location services
Choose the location where yous desire any images saved to

The iii-dot carte du jour will exist nowadays consistently throughout the app while the button controls will vary from screen to screen every bit to which are nowadays.

Okay... allow's become into the EXIF pages. Your photos EXIF file is created when the photo is taken and the amount of information can vary from camera to camera. Some cameras may but record the basics while others will record everything under the sunday. The EXIF pages is where all the EXIF data will be displayed and Image Map spreads things out nicely.

Image Map EXIF pages

The pages are:

Flick: Hither you will find a reduced view of your image along with the image file name, location and size. If you tap on the image it volition be displayed full screen.

Location: Your Location Folio on Epitome Map volition display a more localized map of where you took the photo along with the Latitude, Longitude, and Distance data. If y'all view a photo that doesn't take any location data, you can manually add the information to the photo. Y'all can either type the address in the keyword field to search for the accost, utilise your location (hit the silhouette push), tap on a spot on the map or enter the longitude/latitude manually. One time the location data is added, you lot can use the refresh button on the map view to add that prototype into the mix.

Graphics: The Graphics screen will brandish the Width, Height, Orientation, Color Infinite and other graphical information from the photos EXIF file.

Image Map EXIF pages

Description: The Clarification page offers descriptive text fields that allow yous to add together captions near the photo, copyright data, and comments well-nigh the photo. The software field is populated with data on the software used to generate the photo.

Camera: As you would guess, this is where you'll find the camera data on the photo. It includes when the photo was taken, the camera brand, model, exposure time, f-cease, and ISO setting. The Camera page will also display a Bing search on the camera.

Full Info: This pulls all the information from the previous screens as well equally every other bit of information contained in the EXIF file.

Some of the EXIF data can be modified and a copy of the image saved in your Pictures Hub. Items such every bit file name, location, copyright information, clarification and artist fields.

Overall, I was impressed with Image Map. Navigation was simple and the app provides you with a lot of information stored in your photograph's EXIF file. I like how yous tin can add location information on images that were captured on cameras without location services. Image Map is a dainty app to consider for those wanting to map out their photos and have access to their photograph'southward EXIF data.

There are two versions of Epitome Map available. You have a free, advertizement supported version that is here at the Windows Phone Marketplace. At that place is a limit on the number of pictures you can relieve with the free version. Epitome Map Plus will run you $1.99. Image Map Plus is ad free, has no limitations on how many images you tin can save and can be found here at the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

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