GPS photos!

Well I got to enjoy three of my hobbies today! I went for a mountain bike ride with my Camera, and my new GPS! So if you have a GPS that saves tracks, (a digital breadcrumb trail of where you went). there are a few options that once back home you can run a program that matches the EXIF data from your photos, to the closest time stamp on your track and saves the GPS coordinates into your photos EXIF file!



Why is this cool? With sites like flickr, you can click on the photo, see where it was taken on google maps. Great for trips, when you travel abroad and take a million photos. Now you can see that, that great sunset was in Madrid not Barcelona, or for mtn bikers with a few too many knocks on the head you can create maps WITH pictures of the trail head, so when the little map says take the third left and there's a picture of what the third left looks like, its pretty hard to mess up!

I am using a Lightroom plug in by Jeffrey Friedl as one of my trial methods for embedding this info. This is a donation ware product and I use his Flickr plugin as well.

The other is with GPICSYNC a freeware product.

I don't have much of an informed opinion to make about these two software pieces as I've just scratched the surface of this new addition to my toolkit. Stay tuned for more!

GPS embedded photo on Flickr