Windows software for creating a map-based travel photo slideshow from geotagged images

Asked 12/14/2010

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I’m looking for a Windows-based way to create a travel slideshow that shows each photo’s location on a map and moves or zooms to the next place in chronological order. My photos are already geotagged. Ideally it would be something fairly easy to use, with options like labels, map pins, or simple animated travel paths. I’m open to video-editing workflows if they don’t require a huge amount of manual work. What software or approach can do something similar to iPhoto’s old “Places” style slideshows?

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I do not believe there is any automated way to do this on Windows. A lot of these kinds of things pop up on the mac first, as Apple has a huge team that works on their bundle of little iApps like iPhoto. It is a critical part of their platform, and fancy little tools like that help their bottom line.

When it comes to the big dogs in the photo editing software industry (or rather, big dog), Adobe has to divide its attention. There are quite a few demands for specific features and improvements in Lightroom and Photoshop, and a feature that lets you create a slideshow that involves flying around a map zooming into photos isn't something that is commonly requested by the primary user base of those tools.

The simplest solution to what you are trying to do would likely be some kind of mashup with Google or Bing maps, an online photo service (Picasa, Flickr?), and a good chunk of time spent wrangling clever JavaScript and JQuery.

If I were to set off to achieve such a thing myself, I would resort to .NET 4, WPF and/or Silverlight 4, and some C# and XAML. Doing fancy 3D animations with a map and some photos is a perfect use of WPF's 3D and animation capabilities. Can't really say I could get it done in less than a few weeks, but it certainly isn't impossible to do.

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Based on the answers, there doesn’t seem to be a well-known automated Windows tool that directly matches iPhoto’s old “Places” slideshow feature.

The practical options mentioned are:

  • use a Google Maps–based mashup or web presentation, where map pins link to photos and viewers can zoom around the route
  • use a script-based approach such as the cited R script (“slideshow-mapmakeR”), which can generate maps alongside your photos from geotagged images, though it lacks richer animation like smooth zooms and flyovers

So if you want something close to iPhoto with minimal manual work, the community answer is essentially: no clear Windows equivalent was identified. A custom map workflow—especially with Google Maps—looks like the most realistic path, and a scripted solution may help automate static map/photo sequencing.

If you need polished animated transitions, you’d likely have to build them manually in video-editing software using exported maps and your images.

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