HoudahGeo 7.2.1

Houdah Software has updated its HoudahGeo geotagging app to version 7.2, with improved reverse geocoding that converts GPS coordinates into a city, region, or country name. The update brings support for BigDataCloud as a reverse geocoding service, which is more reliable in areas with no nearby towns, such as open water, mountains, and deserts. BigDataCloud requires an API key, but it offers a generous free tier with 50,000 requests per month. HoudahGeo 7.2 also adds an option to use your own API key with the OpenCage and GeoNames reverse geocoding services, adds more language options to the OpenCage, and improves the built-in HoudahGeo Offline service with better accuracy through feature-code ranking, population data, and an updated cities database.

The release also improves drag-and-drop so that files dropped onto the wrong tab are now routed automatically, fixes a UTF-8 encoding issue when writing multi-byte characters to IPTC, addresses several crashes (including when importing from Photos in macOS 26 Tahoe), implements a new crash reporting process, and updates in-app help with the latest reverse geocoding changes. Version 7.2.1 was subsequently released to fix a bug that caused the app to display map search suggestions immediately upon opening a project window. ($39 new with a 25% discount for TidBITS members, $24 upgrade, 41.1 MB, release notes, 12.4+)