I strongly recommend GeoPress:
http://georss.org/geopress
I found this plugin to be very useful for what I needed to do:
http://www.andrewferguson.net/wordpress-plugins/
Force User Field Registration
Hoping to see the answer to this question
I am looking for an answer to this question as well.
Has anyone else found a plugin to upload Author images.
I found this plugin, but it is broken:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/99289
It has a ton of bugs, and it never got past version 0.1
