Having fun with geobloggers.com
If you add the appropriate tags to your photos on flickr.com (geotagged, geo:lat=XX.XXX, geo:lon=XX.XXX), then it will automatically be displayed on geobloggers.com’s augmented Google Maps.
Check out mine. There are a couple other Granite Staters who are playing along too — crschmidt and StarrGazr
May 27th, 2005 at 5:54 am
I guess my naive question is: did you have your GPS with you when you took the picture, or did you look it up online afterwards?
It would be cool if some digital cameras had a GPS option and could record the data in the EXIF headers, wouldn’t it?
Right now, the closest thing I have to GPS is my phone. I’ve only used the feature a few times, though… mostly as a novelty.
May 27th, 2005 at 8:47 am
Only the higher end cameras have GPS support. There are a bunch of DIY
projects and software packages that let you add location information to the EXIF headers. Really all you need is to make sure the clocks on the GPS and camera are in sync, then it is a SMOP. There is a lot of good info here.
For some of the photos I happened to have the GPS in the car so I’m confident of the location of Rein’s Deli and the gym at Sacred Heart University, but the others I’ve guessed the location using multimap.com. I’ve found that google aps won’t always give me the lat/long in the URL.
May 27th, 2005 at 10:38 am
Thanks for the info page link. That was interesting. I wonder if any useful searchable GPS based tagging is going on outside of Flickr. Something like Google image search where Google would note the optional EXIF GPS info and be able to show you pictures near a specified longitude and latitude.
Hey, I didn’t see a pushpin for Rein’s (in Vernon, CT, right?) Man… Reins! I haven’t been there in over six years. I used to stop by their every time I had a customer visit in CT.
“SMOP” — love it! Been in computers since 1981 and have never heard that one. ;-) It reminds me of the phrase I hear from our sales channel every so often: “How hard could it be?” We engineers cringe everytime we hear that.
May 27th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Had you seen this?
Another great example of GPS SMOP! ;-)
October 9th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
If you like Geobloggers you may like:
Panoramio.com