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Geotag Photos

steve Member
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Hi guys, before I get to my question I just want to thank everyone who has been working on the latest update to Zen...you have all done a great job!!

My Question...now that we have geotagging options along with Google maps I was wondering what programs everyone is using to set up the co-ordinates? I have never used flikr and don't even have an account there, nor do I really want to set one up just for the geotagging.

So what do you recommend for use on the PC to take advantage of this feature?

Cheers

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  • aitf311 Member
    I use picasa and google earth. Once you have picasa installed click on a picture, then tools ---> geotag --->geotag with google earth

    it will open up google earth, you will pinpoint where you took the picture and its done.
  • steve Member
    Cheers, that sounds easy enough for even me to follow :)
  • Cbunny Member
    Hello there -

    This seems to be my work flow so far although I haven't gotten any final products up (but with the newest update to ZenPhotos I think I'm on my way!

    1) I carry a GPS with me when I travel and maniacally download the tracklogs.
    2) Take photos, of course
    3) Download photos to computer and use Picasa to add description and export subsets at a smaller resolution (usually 640x480 or 480x640)
    4) Clean up tracklogs for longer journeys and then use RoboGeo (http://www.robogeo.com/home/)to geocode and geotag the subset of photos.
    5) Anything that didn't join on the timestamps I hand geocoded by finding the coordinates in Google Earth or Google Maps.

    I was having a hard time finding a photo gallery (that could be integrated with WordPress or Typepad - easily) and had really like ZenPhoto. But when I was first looking they couldn't read the photo EXIF info - I didn't want to do all of my editing online - ick. NOW though I think they are the bee's knees and can't wait to start formatting my albums and adding maps.

    The new versions will read my lat/long and descriptions from the EXIF/Ixxx header and I assume that the info is written to a variable somewhere that I will be able to access. That is hwere the playing around will have to occur.

    Cheers,

    Nif
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