Here’s an example of why I like SlideShowPro and particularly its Director image management database.

Just a week ago in this post a user asks SlideShowPro about using GPS data in images he’s uploaded to Director, and within 5 days they’ve updated Director and added GPS Support.

This is partly based on code by Dave Finlayson, another fan of Director’s API, who posted his code while I was enthusiastically breaking my Director installation (by using Lua’s “–” rather than PHP’s “//” to comment out some code….)

When you click the pins, you’re seeing the same image as on this page. Just as it does with that page’s thumbnail and larger images, Director takes the high resolution image on the server and resizes it on the fly (workflow diagram here).