Learning with the Fang

While trying to figure out why my geotagged photos from iPhoto09 were not showing up in the Flickr map, I learnt a thing or two. It all started here:

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/90239/

Top 10 things to check are:
http://www.flickr.com/account/?donegeoexif=1&tab=privacy

• http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/exifprivacy/?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/privacy/?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/optout/?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/downloads/?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/sharing?from=privacy
• http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/filters/?from=privacy [and it takes time for a new account to be marked safe]

Additional goodies from:
http://www.underdoug.ca/2009/02/01/iphoto-09-and-previously-geotagged-photos/
http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/8041/iPhoto-%2709-Geo-Tagging

Note to self:
Try some of the other tools/techniques for geotagging batches of photos:

• Find a tool to manually add lat, long to a folder of images
• Find a tool that links gps trails with date time and try that
• look for 2-3 other approaches and document them
• http://itrailr.googlepages.com/

Cool googlemaps mashup by username:
http://www.mypicsmap.com/photos/mikeblogs
Flickr new ‘map’ feature howto:
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Flickr_Introduces_Simpler__Faster_Geotagging_Tools

Free GPS software and notes

• GPSBabel manipulates and transfers waypoints, tracks, and routes between receivers and/or popular mapping programs. Looks like a must once one gets serious.
• http://free.3dtracking.net/howcan.aspx
• GPSPhotoLinker -
  can be used to save location and GPS position data to a photo. The
  latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit while you were taking
  photos can be linked, and saved, to the photos. Free OS/X version. Pro has more features.

GPS Tools tried with MSFT Pharos GPS-360

• OSX Leopard driver – osx-pl2303-0-1.3.1-10.4-universal.dmg (v0.31 or later)
• RoadNav http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/ with above driver sees GPS and gets coordinates. Maps for aus a different issue see openstreetmap.org
• openstreetmap.org, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page created fang userid, download maps never did anything interesting for aus. The export from webpage created .osm.xml files that RoadNav could not read.
• RouteBuddy is $100USD software that seems to have a ton of features but extra $ for AUS maps. Demo did not see the GPS.

Other things I tried

• http://www.instamapper.com/iphone *On my iPod touch with account fang

Fang – Mike Seyfang