Tag a Spot 2.0.1
Device: iOS iPhone
Category: Photography
Price: Free, Version: 2.0 -> 2.0.1 (iTunes)
Description:Tag a spot is a productivity app that allows to use the camera as a tool on the field to annotate, document, and organize photos in a structured way in order to facilitate communication of such visual information between users and integration of data into external databases and workflows.This might be useful in a wide range of situations which might or might not require geo-localization. Just a few examples:A City Council might use tagged photos collected through devices by its personnel to identify equipment that requires repairing service or whatever maintenance work through a given route. These tagged photos might be merged using whichever proprietary software they might use to generate digital reports for employees in order to perform the actual maintenance tasks.As an option, Town citizens might be enforced to use the app to report about any issue that needs to be addressed related to a given spot (for instance a traffic light that doesn’t work or some similar problem). The user takes a shot, drags one or several color tags over the photo, taps on each tap to add a description of the particular spot that needs to be highlighted and adds a text comment about the photo or the particular situation. Automatically, the app gathers the location where the photo was taken. Then the user might send an e-mail automatically generated by the app with this tagged photo as an attachment with all of the text description and location data if the user allowed the device to record it.Another example: A professional working for an insurance company who goes to the workshops to check damaged parts of a car might use the tool to take a series of shots which might be documented in a structured way and sent to a central data repository of the company where the digital information could be collected as a part of a company workflow. In Tag a Spot, photos are organized in folders. After a photo has been taken the user can drag any number of tags as color dots which can be dragged freely over the photo to mark the areas in the photos that might require specific attention. A text description can be associated to each tag and a long text comment might be associated to each photo. If the user has geolocalization activated on the device, the position where the shot is taken is recorded as well automatically or it can be adjusted manually as well to fine-tune the precise location and scale on a map. Besides taken photos with the camera, existing photos in the Photo Library might be incorporated to the projects for tagging and commenting. Every original photo might be optionally saved into the Photo Library either at full resolution or at a reduced size to save disk space.In addition to sending photos by e-mail, users might save them into a computer by connecting the device to it. Photos might be seen in iTunes in the user’s document folder of the application and saved to local repositories. Through XML data might be synchronized between the phone or several ones used to collect data and a central ad-hoc application that the organization or professional might use in their workflow processes. In addition photos can be uploaded to a Dropbox account.
What's New
Demo videos for Catalan and Spanish languages have been added.Exporting to Dropbox now may be chosen to be non-incremental. Useful when switching to other Dropbox accounts.Completely revamped user interface that allows to view your photos using different user interface paradigms including the one used on previous versions. Queries are now possible, which will allow you to find your photos in any folder very quickly.Tag a Spot will find all photos that match a given keyword or sentence. Queries are performed on photo name (new attribute for a photo), on the comments field, or on any tag whose text matches the query string. Photos are also searchable by date. Photo tags and associated info are editable at any time. A new option was added which will allow you to view on a map the location of all photos from a folder at once.Tag a Spot adds options to the camera like a timer shutter, using the accelerometer to disallow the shutter until the camera is held steady, or the ability to modify focus or aperture by tapping on a region of the camera view. Tag a Spot can only be updated to version 2.0 from version 1.3. It requires iOS 6.
Tag a Spot