This isn't GeoPhoto's fault, it's simply reading the location field in each photo's EXIF data. The screenshot above, right shows some thumbnailed photos that were taken nowhere near the location shown. Unfortunately, things rarely go to plan here. those taken when you've allowed Camera to have permission to access your location, in Windows 10's Settings) should appear in the right spots on the map - if all is well then you'll have great fun browsing around, for example revisiting where holiday snaps were taken. So far so good and your geotagged photos (i.e. Thence, left and right taps cycles through all photo (previews) for that location and tapping the photo itself toggles it to a grid of controls, including going full-screen and (shown below, left) a detailed breakdown of the EXIF data, set artily against part of the image itself. The choice of circles or squares for both the thumbnails and previews is a personal one and I've used both through this review, since I couldn't decide which I preferred! In either case, a thumbnail indicates a photo or cluster of photos and tapping on them opens up a browser for all photos within: You can choose where GeoPhoto gets its images from - by default it's your phone's Camera roll, but you can add extra paths, either for a third party camera application or for some favourite images archived onto your microSD (etc.) You can even specify several Cloud sources for photos, including OneDrive, though be warned that loading photos from a large source (as in my case) took multiple minutes - unsurprisingly, I have over 10,000 photos on my OneDrive! It's slick and responsive at every point, with adverts on the free version but an in-app-purchase to remove these and also unlock unlimited retro-geotagging of photos. GeoPhoto's pretty mature for Windows Phone 8.1, and the UWP version brings along most of this stability. Nokia tried something similar with Lumia Storyteller back in the day, but this got canned in the great Microsoft buyout, leaving the field open for this longstanding third party alternative. The idea behind GeoPhoto has always been simple - look at the EXIF location data in your stored photos on the phone (or, optionally a Cloud source such as OneDrive or Flickr as well) and display thumbnails overlaid on a 2D map of the world. Although a UWP application for Windows 10 (and thus 'Mobile' as well), anyone with Windows Phone 8.1 shouldn't switch off, since GeoPhoto has existed (and been updated) for 8.1 for years - heck, Rafe featured it here back in 2013! Today sees yet another big update to the UWP version though, and it's thus ripe for review.
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