Zoph 0.8.3 released

Zoph 0.8.3 has been released. This is the third feature release for v0.9.

Most of the improvements in this version are related to mapping. The most important new feature is "geotagging". Geotagging allows you to use a GPS-tracker to create a track of where you were, because these devices do not only register where you were, but also when you were there. Since your digital camera also registers when a photo was taken, you can now determine exactly where a photo was taken. Of course you will need a program that can make the match for you and as of v0.8.3, Zoph is one of those programs.

Once your photo database starts to grow, and you have many photos on which you have set a location, you may want to search for these locations as well. This version adds a new search option to the search page; you can now point on the map and search for photos taking within a certain distance from that point.

Even if you do not have GPS tracker, you may want to record where your photos were taken. This has been possible since the first version of Zoph, adding a map in v0.7.3. However, when adding a new location, it was often a lot of work to find that specific location on the map. Zoph can now use the Geonames project to find a location by name. Even if the specific location can not be found, it can often zoom in to the city or region, saving you a lot of moseclicks.

Another timesaver is a small change to Zoph's behaviour, if you have set the lat/lon on a place and then add a 'child' to that place, it will already zoom in to the parent's location, often saving you many mouseclicks. It does the same when editing a photo that has no lat/lon set, but does have a location assigned with lat/lon information.

Furthermore, several bugs have been fixed. There are no known bugs in this release. However, this is a pre-release, and should be considered beta.

You can download both Zoph 0.8.3 from the Sourceforge site.