Find your photos with Go and Fyne

Programming Snapshot – Go Geolocation

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To help track down a particular photo, Mike Schilli often turns to his cellphone's geosearch function. Replicating this functionality with Go and Fyne turned out to be a trouble-free experience.

If your photo collection is not well organized, it can be quicker to find the snapshot you are looking for on a map than in a timeline. The cellphone's photo app displays photo clusters on the map (Figure 1) and shows you a list of all photos taken in the vicinity at the tap of a finger. In other words, if you know where a photo was taken, you can often quickly find what you are looking for.

Figure 1: Cellphone photos are often taken at memorable places.

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