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GPS data in Photos
Here's a photo of a beautiful little church in Hobart. I've tagged the image with GPS coordinates, so that you can se exactly where it is. If you click on the link below, you'll see where the photo was taken.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-42.88544500,147.32653833&spn=0.001,0.001&t=k&hl=en
I hope to make a post that will outline how I'm accomplishing the tagging in detail. The short version is this:
I'm carrying a GPS unit (Garmin Vista Hcx) that is recording a tracklog. When I download the images with ImageIngester Pro, I'm able to merge the GPS data with the images (it reads the time stamp in the photo's metadata, and matches it with the GPS coordinates from the same time).
Lightroom can take you right to Google maps with a single click (that's how I got the Google link that I pasted in above).
Peter
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Adventure 2008
Comments (5)
Are you sure that the coordinates are OK? Can't see any church in Google Maps there. See yourself.
The church is directly across the street from where the pin is (above and to the left in the Google image).
Remember that the GPS unit will record camera position, not the position of what the camera views, and that there is some margin of error (35 feet or so in this case). I was actually standing on the sidewalk on the church's side of the street, as you can tell from the photo.)
Does that explain what you are seeing?
Thanks for the explanation. Now I see the church. I would move the pin on a map to show the exact position of a church but would leave it as it is in case of taking a picture of landscape.
Peter
Very cool trip, couple questions.
Do you use any software between the Garmin and the Image Ingestor? Are you using a PC or Mac? Have you many errors from the logger/tracker device and the images?
Will be following virtually from Philadelphia/
Richard
Richard,
Unfortunately, I need to merge the tracklog before ingestion. (If the Garmin loses signal at any time, it makes a separate track within the tracklog). I only know how to do this with Map Source software from Garmin, which only works on PC. If 'm downloading on the Mac, I first need to merge the tracks on PC.
If anyone knows ho to do this on a Mac, I'd love to know. No time to test GPS software here, (plenty of other software to test) so I have not been looking.
As to errors, there are some (if the device loses signal), but since most of what I shot so far is outside, that's not been a problem.
Peter