How to Geo-Locate Pictures
I spent quite a few hours figuring out how this will be achieved -for those that are interested here is how we are doing it.
The Nokia N73 Phones were selected for their quality camera - and will be used for photographs by Aria and Allysha (as well as music and GSM unlocked phones) in addition to 2 Fuji cameras our trusty FinePix Z1 and a newly acquired FinePix Z10fd will be used to capture pictures.
Nothing special needs to be done except for ensuring the clocks on all of these devices are synchronized to GPS time - the phones are but the cameras require some work.
Next using a GPS receiver which is synced with one of the cell phones we will simply simply start tracking our movement in the morning using a free program from Nokia called Sports Tracker installed on the phones. This program uses the GPS to track speed and distance over time - it was designed as a work-out tracking device but fits our needs as well.
At the end of the day we will export the track as GSX (it can also be exported as KML) for the next step.
We load the pictures from the cameras and phone to the notebook, copy the GSX file locally and combine them using a program that uses the track information and the timestamp of the picture to stamp the latitude and longitude into the EXIF Headers of the jpg.
Upload the picture an voila a geotagged photo that can be overlayed on a map. They can also be imported into Google earth.
Feel free to ask me any questions - I did much research and testing.
The Nokia N73 Phones were selected for their quality camera - and will be used for photographs by Aria and Allysha (as well as music and GSM unlocked phones) in addition to 2 Fuji cameras our trusty FinePix Z1 and a newly acquired FinePix Z10fd will be used to capture pictures.
Nothing special needs to be done except for ensuring the clocks on all of these devices are synchronized to GPS time - the phones are but the cameras require some work.
Next using a GPS receiver which is synced with one of the cell phones we will simply simply start tracking our movement in the morning using a free program from Nokia called Sports Tracker installed on the phones. This program uses the GPS to track speed and distance over time - it was designed as a work-out tracking device but fits our needs as well.
At the end of the day we will export the track as GSX (it can also be exported as KML) for the next step.
We load the pictures from the cameras and phone to the notebook, copy the GSX file locally and combine them using a program that uses the track information and the timestamp of the picture to stamp the latitude and longitude into the EXIF Headers of the jpg.
Upload the picture an voila a geotagged photo that can be overlayed on a map. They can also be imported into Google earth.
Feel free to ask me any questions - I did much research and testing.