By Brad Daily | Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 11:46 am

SlideShowPro Director 1.4.3: Introducing GPS support

In the latest build of SlideShowPro Director, we’ve extended the existing IPTC/EXIF support to include the parsing of GPS information, which is embedded in the standard EXIF GPS tag by some cameras as well as a host of geocoding applications. If an image has GPS metadata, a new button will show up in the edit pane:

Clicking that button will open a Google map with the location the photo was taken:

The new metadata is also available in content metadata defaults (as [exif:latitude] and [exif:longitude]), so you can use the data to populate titles or captions. You can also tap into the data to create link templates, allowing you to create links to your favorite mapping application (we’ve included a link template that will open Google maps, for example). Finally, this data is also available via the API, and we can’t wait to see what some of our API developers come up with. Hack away!

The new GPS functionality, along with several other fixes, is now available in Director 1.4.3 (Build 4967). We’ve already deployed the changes to the hosting platform, so all slideshowpro.com users should now have this functionality as well. Best of all, you don’t need to re-upload any images, as Director will grab the GPS info from your existing images as well as any new images you upload.

(Thanks to SlideShowPro user Hendrik Gude for his suggestion for this feature, as well as providing us with some sample imagery to test with.)