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I was reading through Arstechnica just now and saw hints of Google Maps integration in iPhoto. But what really peaked my interest was the comment, by Luis Alejandro Masanti, about having a slideshow following your path.

Now, take that idea a step further and integrate with Google Earth. If you rememeber last Xmas Google had Santa flying all over the world in "real time". It was fun to watch. Imagine if you could see "what Santa was looking at" as he landed.
With Picasa, Google has access to a lot of photos. When GPS tagging in the EXIF data starts up in full force Google will have the ability to show you the world in pictures at street level - in somewhat real time for more popular locations. You would even get cool information like direction and altitude so you wouldn't only see the south-east side of buildings as current mapping tools display.

Now, if iPhoto also could somehow share that information with Google you have massive data gathering potential. Would Flickr then join the party with Yahoo? Would we have massive competition on who can display the best world-view from a height of 3m instead of 300m?

I know the street level journiogger (journalist-blogger) would love to be able to use their cell-cam shots to map out the world and see foreign sights from the comfort of their living room LCD. It would make travel planning that much easier if you could see a picture of the beach and then go to the same spot that the picture was taken (weather permitting).