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Trying To Fathom Where I've Been?
August 10, 2006

I have just started Geo-tagging all my photos... Mainly because I am holed up with a stinking cold and can no longer sleep without having feverish dreams that are as exhausting as the incessant nose-blowing required whilst awake!

I am trying a few methods so there maybe a few confused results until I settle on one I'm comfortable with. Most of them have initially been done using Google Earth to add to my Flickr Map. It's not 100% accurate, either because I can't remember exactly where the photograph was taken or Google Earth doesn't have pictures at a good enough resolution to place them accurately. Also seems to be a bit hit and miss about what and when it updates.

I am also using GMIF so you can see a GMap tag on each individual photo on Flickr and a pop-up Google Map will appear on that photos page. This has used the information from the process above and there are a few irregularities on things I expected to be spot on! My Brighton pictures have appeared somewhere else in Sussex I've never heard of!

Ideally I'd like a camera with GPS that puts the info into EXIF for me, but there aren't any quality ones out there yet - So I'll have to get myself a bluetooth GPS for my [next] mobile... or get a PDA!

I'm going to try the iTag software as well. This also uses Google Earth, but uses .kmz/.kml placemarks to add data to EXIF. It can also add GPX data for tracing routes etc. Which is handy if you have a lot of photos from a particular journey and already own a GPS [GPX being the XML format for exchanging GPS data between apps]. So would have been great on our Coastal path walk in Cornwall earlier in the year!

iTag does need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Not sure what this is going to do to the existing geo data I've already created, but we shall see... So long as I don't have to go through Flickr and manually delete 500+ photos worth of Geo tags.

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