With travel photos—and even everyday snapshots—location is almost always the defining factor that stokes visceral memory. For anyone walking around with an iPhone, location services are your best friend, and paired with Streetography (free on the iTunes Store), a new map-based photo-sharing app for iOS, you can drill down to the visual essence of a place through on-the-ground images.
The app’s interface places photos directly on a map, superimposed on defined boundaries of blocks, neighborhoods, and cities in a uniquely satisfying real-time and space perspective. Using only gestures, you can drill down from region to city to street and back out for an instant, ground-level view. Derived from a combination of its own research, third party, and government sources, Streetography’s maps assume an organic feel.
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