Hi all, I have a Kodak DC290 Digital Camera and Garmin III+ GPS, and I have been experimenting with GPS tagged photos. I wanted to share these photos on the internet, but also show maps of the locations from the tagged image. I put some of my photos on the online album sharing site PhotoPoint (the pictures aren't great, just photos from my vacation and the fire near Fort Collins, Co recently). So go to my album: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=948119&a=6939763 and you will see an overview 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. Click on "Next" to see other pictures. This takes no GIS software locally installed, only internet map servers. 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 (lat/lon/elev/date) as JPEG meta tags and use the lat/lon/elev/date as a watermark if you want. And to include the maps in PhotoPoint, I just inserted MapBlast 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, and all the images would have maps. Is this where internet mapping might take us? Comments? Suggestions? Uses? Rick Bobbitt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
