Tagged! Picasa's It!

I'm not ashamed to say I don't know everything. It's kind of exciting that I don't - it means there's always something new and exciting out there for me to discover.

I recently (today) discovered how awesome Picasa is. Yesterday, my business partner and I went to Venice, Louisiana. For those of you unfamiliar to Venice, you go to the end of the world. Then turn left.

I love field trips, so in addition to the business recon trip for a potential customer, I also stopped along the way to take pictures of the road less traveled (with my iPhone, of course). I decided to give Picasa a shot - both versions. (There's the PC version and then the web version, both of which can work independently of each other.)

It doesn't quite have the same Google-feel that Google's other products do, but it was pretty easy to download my pics from my iPhone, edit them, and upload them to the web album. I also put them on the business's Facebook page quickly.

Looking at the online album, I noticed "Photo Locations" in the bottom right. Naturally curious, I clicked on it. Wow! A Google map overlaid with thumbnails of my pics at the spots they were taken! No effort on my part! I saw a virtual recreation of our trip right down Highway 23 all the way to Venice. (Technically, you go to the end of the world and turn right.)

Bar Pilots Recon Mission & South Louisiana Field Trip

What an awesome way to share a trip with the rest of the world - a recreation of the entire route along the way. Think of marketing for a marathon, a Chamber of Commerce scavenger hunt, a delivery route for a business, or any number of business uses. Think of a tour business marketing a particular route, or a number of routes. And these are only ideas involving trips, not the whole geo-tagging spectrum. Wow.

Perhaps I should get that uneasy feeling that Big Brother is watching, but I'm too awestruck to worry about him right now.