Why Photo Location Metadata Matters

GPS coordinates are useful, but they are not the whole story.

A coordinate can tell you where a photo was taken. Better place metadata can tell you what watershed, protected area, ecoregion, land context, elevation, timezone, and biome that point belongs to.

Coordinates are only the start

For natural-history photographers, place is part of the observation. The same species photographed in different watersheds, protected areas, ecoregions, or elevations may tell a different ecological story.

Better search, better records

When place context is attached to images, you can search a catalog by meaningful landscape units instead of only folders, keywords, or coordinates.

GeoPlace is built around that idea.