compass orientation indication for geo tagged photos

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What should this feature enhancement do?

Utilize the Compass orientation metadata from photos to indicated the 
orientation of photos when geo tagging  them on a map.

maybe when hovering over a pin pick, the icon could change to indicate 
orientation that photo was taken at?

Asked this question on Quora: 
http://www.quora.com/Which-geo-tagging-photo-sites-use-embedded-GPS-compass-data

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ethan.li...@gmail.com on 17 May 2011 at 10:46

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apologies if this is the wrong place to post this feature request...  seems 
applicable to picasa, picasaweb, and google earth.  I just posted here as well: 
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=7274e7e1cbabf39a&hl=en

Original comment by ethan.li...@gmail.com on 17 May 2011 at 11:56

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Earth (and Maps) does not read photo metadata at all. Even when creating a 
photo overlay (instead it is dropped at your current view location, altitude 
and orientation).

Location, orientation and balloon content for geo-tagged photos are all created 
by Picasa, Picasaweb or whatever service is using Google Earth/Maps to display 
geo-located photos.

This should be a feature request to Picasa, not GE, in my opinion.

Original comment by Todd.Gar...@gmail.com on 17 May 2011 at 11:57

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Thanks Todd..  Then my 2nd post over at the Picasa Help Forum was perhaps the 
better place.....  or is there an ever better place than that to submit this 
feature request?

Original comment by ethan.li...@gmail.com on 18 May 2011 at 12:07