Enhancement: Display time zone
HoudahGeo now remembers the display time zone of projects
Bug fix: Mac OS X Leopard
Restores compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard
Bug fix: Automatic geocoding
HoudahGeo would ignore customized default parameters
Bug fix: iPhone Geocoding
Some images may have been ignored when geocoding from reference photos
Bug fix: KML / KMZ export
Fixes a crashing problem during export
Bug fix: GPX export
Fixes a crashing problem during export
Bug fix: EveryTrail upload
Fixes a crashing problem during export
Bug fix: Lion compatibility
Fixes an issue where HoudahGeo failed to launch on some systems upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Bug fix: Lion compatibility
HoudahGeo 2.9 brings several fixes for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Enhancement: iPhoto media access
Support for iPhoto libraries which reference images located on external drives
Enhancement: Camera Setup
The "Override Metadata" option now defaults to the last used state
Bug fix: Media Browser
The media browser now re-opens at the same size it had when last closed
Bug fix: Camera Setup
In some rare cases, settings made in Camera Setup were not applied
Enhancement: GPX export
GPX export now offers an option to use image titles, file names or file paths for waypoint names
Bug fix: EXIF export
Restores support for .mef, .mie, .srw and .pef files
Bug fix: Camera timezone
Returning to a document one could find it showing an incorrect time zone
Enhancement: Camera Setup
Canceling out of the Camera Setup sheet no longer triggers a geocoding operation
Bug fix: Override metadata
Fixes option to override image metadata
Enhancement: Inspectors
Open default inspectors upon launch of application if no inspectors are set to open
Enhancement: First launch
Improves first-launch experience
Bug fix: Camera setup
Changes to camera setup were ignored in some situations
New feature: Magellan log files
HoudahGeo now reads log files produced by Magellan devices
Enhancement: Map Inspector
The Map Inspector window is now resizable
Bug fix: Google Earth export
Some images were displayed with incorrect orientation
Caveat: Mac OS X 10.4 Support
HoudahGeo 2.8 drops support for Mac OS X 10.4
Enhancement: Error handling
Greatly improved handling of errors during export, upload, ….
Bug fix: Reverse geocoding
Fixes a crashing bug with reverse geocoding.
New feature: iPhoto'11 integration
iPhoto integration now supports iPhoto'11. iPhoto 9.1.1 required.
Bug fix: Waypoints
Fixes the loading of waypoints from an GPS track log file.
New feature: Bing Maps
HoudahGeo 2.7 adds quality maps and satellite imagery to the Map Inspector and Map Geocoding windows.
Enhancement: Open panels
HoudahGeo now remembers the last locations where tracks or images were accessed.
Enhancement: GPSBabel
Updated to the latest release of GPSBabel.
Enhancement: ExifTool
Updated to the latest release of ExifTool.
Bug fix: Preview & Map Inspectors
The inspector windows would no longer track current selection when closed and reopened.
Bug fix: KML/KMZ export
Some images were exported with an incorrect orientation.
Minor update: iLife'11
Acknowledges a iPhoto 9.0.1 bug and provides workaround instructions.
Bug fix: Image Previews
Fixes issue with preview orientation for some images.
Bug fix: Crash on close
HoudahGeo could crash upon closing a project window.
Bug fix: Various
HoudahGeo 2.6.4 addresses various minor bugs.
Bug fix: German localization
Fixes UI layout bugs in the German localization.
New feature: Open Google / Bing maps web sites
Map Inspector and Map Geocoding windows now offer the option to reveal the current coordinates on maps.google.com or bing.com/maps.
New feature: Override erroneous time zone in image metadata
By default, time zone information embedded in an image metadata takes precedence over the settings made here. A new option allows for overriding this behavior.
Enhancement: GPX file loading
HoudahGeo now accepts malformed timestamps as written by the SPOT devices.
Bug fix: Loading geocoded images
HoudahGeo did not always read latitude & longitude from previously geocoded images.
Bug fix: Waypoint geocoding
Waypoint geocoding checked only for waypoints following the image timestamp.
CAVEAT
This version no longer uses Google Maps. Unfortunately Google has decided to start charging disproportionate fees for our use of their services. Rather than burden our users with a monthly use fee, we have decided to move to cheaper CloudMade solution and swallow the cost ourselves. This affects only the Map Inspector and Map Geocoding features. Integration with Google Earth remains available for geocoding photos from satellite imagery.
New feature: EveryTrail.com
HoudahGeo now supports publishing of projects to EveryTrail.com trips.
Enhancement: Image export
Improves speed and fixes an issue with image corruption.
Bug fix: iPhoto integration
Improves speed of communication with iPhoto'09.
Bug fix: Aperture integration
Restores communication with Aperture 3.
Enhancement: Media browser
The media browser now supports Lightroom 3.
Enhancement: GPSBabel
Updated to use GPSBabel 1.4.1.
Enhancement: GPSBabel
Updated to use GPSBabel 1.4.0.
Bug fix: GPS track import
In HoudahGeo 2.5.3, GPS track import failed to work on certain systems. Most notably PPC systems.
Bug fix: Wintec WBT-202
This update fixes an issue where dates read from TES track log files were 4 days off.
Bug fix: Wintec WBT-202
This update fixes an issue where TES track log files from the Wintec WBT-202 could not be loaded.
Bug fix: EXIF export
Fixes an issue with German localization. Two checkboxes were mislabeled.
New feature: Coordinate display options
HoudahGeo now offers the option to display latitude and longitudes in "decimal degrees", "degrees and minutes" or "degrees, minutes and seconds."
New feature: Full Aperture 3 integration
HoudahGeo may now notify Aperture 3 when it has written new metadata. Aperture Places will immediately refresh
New feature: Bypass XMP sidecars
There is now an option to bypass XMP sidecars during EXIF/XMP export
New feature: Wintec WBT-202
HoudahGeo now supports log files created by the Wintec WBT-202 track logger
New feature: Sony GPS-CS3
HoudahGeo now supports log files created by the Sony GPS-CS3 track logger
New feature: Holux M-241
HoudahGeo now supports USB connections to the Holux M-241 track logger
Bug fix: Flickr upload
Previous versions created duplicate albums with the same name
Bug fix: Image import
On occasion, images were assigned incorrect timestamps during import