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Back in late August, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was elected to Apple’s board of directors.  And until now, we haven’t seen much of the two companies collaborating.  Enter geotagging for iPhoto.  If you’re not familiar with geotagging, sites like Flickr and a whole slew of Google Maps API-based sites use it to mark on a map where something happened.  In the case of iPhoto, it would mark on a map where each picture or album was taken.  Now this has yet to be announced by Apple or Google, but Mactelchat forum user javester has been poking around in the code and noticed something fishy.  Javester stated one of his/her findings as follows: :"In the Localizable.strings file inside the iPhoto app bundle, we find several intriguing keys, including one called GPSMapURL which is preset to “http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%f+%f"!" In real people terms, this means iPhoto has code that links to Google Maps.

Javester also found a hidden “Show” button that would link to a Google Map of the location.  At the time of writing their first post, they couldn’t get the “Show” button to work.  But after some more hacking away, they came up with the video after the break.

Read [Mactelchat] Via [CrunchGear]

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