What JAlbum looks at in the edit tab is the JPEG comment, not the IPTC Caption.
If you want to use the IPTC Caption/Comment, you need to use Exifer, Irfanview or some other program to enter the data.
Unfortunately, different programs use different names to refer to the same IPTC fields.
Use the spreadsheet attached in an earlier post in this thread to find your way through that maze

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jimberry

I have added the [code] [/code] pairs to a couple of posts to get them displaying correctly again.

Some great information here. So, is there a simple way to convert those values to something Google will like?

For instance, in my slide.htt I could get to them like this:

<ja:if exists="meta">
<!-- pre><%= meta %></pre -->
Height: <%= meta.get("Jpeg.Image Height") %>
<pre>
GPS.GPS Latitude: <%= meta.get("GPS.GPS Latitude") %>
GPS.GPS Longitude: <%= meta.get("GPS.GPS Longitude") %>
GPS.GPS Longitude Ref: <%= meta.get("GPS.GPS Longitude Ref") %>
GPS.GPS Latitude Ref: <%= meta.get("GPS.GPS Latitude Ref") %>
</ja:if>

But that's not how we present it to Google. I'd need to run it through some code to massage it -- code like the ExihibitPlus mod to slide.bsh mentioned earlier. Basically, that's the only thing I want to do, and I'm not clear on how to link in my own code to integrate it with a template.

Ideally, I'd want to just have in a dozen or so lines in the actual template and make it completely self contained. (This is for a very bare stripped down skin I use on my site.)

Can anyone give me some pointers? I know some Java, but am not clear (yet) on how these methods are linked in.

Thanks for the reply, David. Although I've been using JAlbum for a few years, I'm new "here" so I guess being able to wait would depend on if Jalbum 8 is due out in 2010 or 2008

But I do want to learn to write skins for it. I haven't coded much in years and this looks fun, but I have much learning to do.

Speaking of ... how do I invoke Java routines? Where is a tutorial or docs that would show how I could customize the page generation? I have about 5000 photos I'm ready to post with GPS info (well, maybe more).

Well, what do you know... Inline java in the template. Very cool. This opens up alot of hackability. Now I just need to figure out how to massage the GPS string to what Google wants (with the replace hack in there until version 8 comes out).

Neat.