On 2/8/08, TekBudda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I would imagine someone in the group has already tackled something like this > so I am hoping they can shed some insight. > > Going forward I am wanting to track the Geo-Coordinates (GC) some of the > pictures I take, particularly the ones of places I have been. I am pretty > new to the idea of "geo-cahcing" or other sorts of "geo-things" so I may not > even know what questions to ask and how. > > What I would like to do is embed the GC into the images and have them > potentially do the following: > * Appear as part of the image > * Be embedded into the image > * Be "clickable" so that some looking at the picture could visit it on the > web. > > Now from what I have so far I can place a watermark or layer on an image > that should show the GC on the image, but I am not quite sure how I would > embed that as well. From what I have searched/experimented/guessed at so > far is that I could create an image map on the image that the person viewing > it could click on. I haven't had any successes at the image map yet but I > am still playing around a bit. > > Am I approaching this the right way or am I way off? Any suggestions or > links that anyone could offer? I would prefer to use GIMP or some other > cross-platform tool as I use multiple platforms, but the primary use would > be on my 3E-PC. Is there by chance a plug-in for gimp that would > accomplish the above? > > Assuming that teh image map might be a cirrect way to go, is there a good > web service that would allow some to click on teh map in the image, go to a > site and have it come up? the only thing I can thnk of at this point is > Google Maps, but am open to other ideas. > > See guys...I can ask on-topic questions once in awhile...LOL! ;-)
Something like this: http://www.robogeo.com/home/ But not for Windows? The part of the .jpg you insert the GIS info into is called the EXIF data. A brief overview here: http://www.photocritic.org/2006/gps-tagging-your-photos-with-exif/ -Mark C _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
