Article: 104722 of sci.geo.satellite-nav
From: rebobbitt@uswest.net
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Subject: Maps on PhotoPoint using GPS Encoded Pictures
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:17:46 GMT
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Hi all,

I have a Kodak DC290 Digital Camera and Garmin III+ GPS, and I have
been experimenting with GPS tagged photos.

I put some of my photos on the online album sharing site PhotoPoint,
and wanted to show maps of where the photos were (the pictures aren't
great, just photos from my vacation and the fire near Fort Collins
recently). So go to my album:

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=948119&a=6939763

and you will see a Map of where the photos were taken. Click on a
photo, and you will see two maps, one zoomed in, the other zoomed
out. You can click on the maps, to zoom in/out more, etc.

To do this, you don't need the expensive Kodak DC290 GPS Kit. Any
Garmin unit with "Text" output capability will work (III, III+, and
others), plus you don't need a special cable. I sent for the free
DC290 serial connection kit, and it came with the normal camera to PC
connector, plus another short connecter for hooking that cable up to
a Mac. But all you have to do is break off one pin on the round Mac
connecter, connect that end to the camera, and the other end to the
serial connector of the Garmin. Works great.

For camera scripts to capture the GPS data, there are some free ones
out there you can use (http://www.digitacamera.com/), and its not too
difficult create one yourself. The camera and read the serial port and
you can insert the GPS info as JPEG meta tags and use the lat/lon as a
watermark if you want.

And to include the maps in PhotoPoint, I just inserted HTML code into
the picture description!! (See for yourself)

You can also easily create your own web pages, with the Maps and
Photos on them. I am going to create a script to that the HTML can be
created as you take the pictures. Then all you would have to do is
copy the entire directory to a web site.

Comments? Suggestions? Uses?

Rick Bobbitt


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