I was asked on a photography forum today: why use Map-A-Pic when you can use the popular Evernote app instead? It is a great question. Evernote is an awesome app and I have a great respect for it. The thing about it is it’s a universal tool, not a specialized one. It’s meant to appeal to the widest audience possible, and it was not designed with photographers in mind. I believe a specialized tool will is usually better for its intended purpose. Like most people wouldn’t use Excel for all their computing needs, even though they probably could.

If you like, you can think about it this way: Map-A-Pic is Evernote for photographers.

Here are some of the things that Map-A-Pic can do that Evernote can’t.

• Choose a location based on its name, tags, etc. and then see it on a map
• Change the coordinates of a location. Every Evernote note will forever remember where it was created, and you can’t change that.
• Create locations from existing pics (Evernote allows you to attach pics, but you can’t use their geotag info from EXIF, or specify a location for those records. Which is a problem because you can’t change a note’s coordinates yourself)
• View locations on the map filtered by tag
• Get directions to a location
• Automatically get the street address of a location

This is a partial list, and I reserve the right to revisit this post later I used the latest versions of Evernote for Android and iPhone for comparison. One great feature that Evernote has is cross-platform syncing of notes. That is useful for people who use several mobile devices. Map-A-Pic doesn’t have that, or an app for iOS — not yet. What Map-A-Pic does have is a workflow designed with photographers in mind, and my goal is to make it the best tool for the photographers.