Instagram 3.0, which is now available for Android and iOS, has both improved by the new Photo Maps feature.
This allows users to add geo tagged photos to a map, making them easy to browse their collection on location. These tags are added if you take a picture with your GPS enabled and permission to add location data.
Photo Maps is intended for personal convenience, but it is also possible to use the card to share with other users. Who's afraid of possible privacy violations do not have to worry about Instagram. If the function for the first time, get clear warnings in the picture and it's easy to take pictures of the card account.
"All the photos that a user has with a geographic tag are already publicly available through the app or the programming interface (API)," said Instagram founder Kevin Systrom. He emphasizes that privacy is paramount to the map function and only provides a new way to visually browse photo collections.
Tight control
Photo Maps for each new image must be individually turned on to prevent accidental pictures appear on the map. In addition, Instagram made it easy to take pictures quickly to remove the overview, the photos in your collection and keep only the location data will be erased. It is then only possible to not more than that to be added later.
Although Instagram not have chosen a full opt-in, where you must indicate so by hand if you want to use it anyway Photo Maps, it has not the Facebook route chosen. The social network has a handful of new features for everyone to turn on automatically and then to the user to let them back off (opt-out).
Instagram is now in the hands of Facebook and although Systrom opposite Wired emphasized that the companies have a separate privacy policies, this may change in the future.
Hurry
Last Thursday it was announced that Facebook is a little known California law would apply to its acquisition of the photo department as soon as possible to finalize.
Since its IPO, the share of networking in a downward spiral hit and need all the help its attractiveness to advertisers to increase.
Although Facebook has said it will integrate Instagram not blindly, but once the acquisition is completed, it is still not clear what the business or will do.
