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Offline randell

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« on: September 15, 2006, 02:13:37 PM »
Flickr, the online photo sharing site, has a new feature that allows you to geotag your photos.  Basically, you can upload a photo and click on the map to mark the exact spot it was taken.  I plan to mark where my photos were taken on my November trip to BBRSP (as much as possible).  I'll then upload them and mark where they were taken.  I'll include the link to that map in my trip report.  

For anyone with a gps, this is a great way to not only show us what you saw, but exactly where you saw it.  The easiest way to mark your location while on-site is to take the photo, then hold up your gps and take a photo of the coordinates on the gps.  This way when you get home you will have the coords with a minimal effort.

Here is the Flickr map zoomed in to Big Bend:

http://www.flickr.com/map/?&fLat=29.303382&fLon=-103.329162&zl=8
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2006, 02:07:00 PM »
I saw an article in the news a week or three ago about a GPS receiver that could be synced with a digital camera to automatically record where each pic was taken.  You could then download the data to your PC.  Can't remember who was making it...
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2006, 11:09:28 PM »
Quote from: "RichardM"
I saw an article in the news a week or three ago about a GPS receiver that could be synced with a digital camera to automatically record where each pic was taken.  You could then download the data to your PC.  Can't remember who was making it...


Maybe it was this??
 
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0608/06080202sonygpscs1.asp

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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2006, 11:26:56 PM »
Quote from: "roncd"
Quote from: "RichardM"
I saw an article in the news a week or three ago about a GPS receiver that could be synced with a digital camera to automatically record where each pic was taken.  You could then download the data to your PC.  Can't remember who was making it...

Maybe it was this??
 
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0608/06080202sonygpscs1.asp

That's it.
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Offline randell

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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2006, 10:45:12 AM »
I read about that as well.  From skimming over it, it seems like it just tracks where you have been and you have to decide where an individual picture was taken by comparing the time/date on your gps tracks with the time/date on your pictures.  It comes with some photo software as well.

If you already have a gps, though, you can do pretty much the same thing.
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2006, 11:00:45 AM »
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I saw an article in the news a week or three ago about a GPS receiver that could be synced with a digital camera to automatically record where each pic was taken.  You could then download the data to your PC.  Can't remember who was making it...


The Kodak 290 allowed you to write "scripts" that would read GPS coordinates (from a Garmin, for example), and then mark the photo with the formatted data.  I used to have one of these cameras (until I fell while hiking to Cattail Falls and the camera met its untimely demise).

To see examples of the GPS-to-camera results, look at http://bigbendpartners.com/tour/lanoria/INDEX.HTM

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2006, 01:53:15 PM »
I've been playing with the Flickr tool some more and it is really easy to just get the time/date from your photo and match it up with a time/date from your gps tracks.  Here is a screenshot of a map of my pictures from my Vegas vacation back in May.

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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2008, 11:51:03 AM »
Thanks Randell for sharing the link ... very interesting

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