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Using Google Maps With a Photo Album

Posted by kdawson on from the stick-a-pin-in-it dept.

neil1979 writes "This site has a tutorial on using Google Maps with your photo album. Each album has a latitude and longitude so it shows up as a pin on a map of the world. When you click a pin, up pops the highlight photo for the albums at that location. Clicking again brings up that album. Makes a great front page to a gallery. Includes a demo with 200 albums from the author's travels. He provides all his code for interfacing with Google maps. Seriously awesome feature for people who travel a lot."

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  1. Saw something like this ages ago by Utopia · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.nikhilk.net/Prototypes/PhotoMap/

  2. Psst by oskard · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was done by Flickr about a year ago:

    http://www.flickr.com/map/

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    1. Re:Psst by Aokubidaikon · · Score: 3, Informative

      And by 43 Places. Really neat though ^_^

    2. Re:Psst by LGagnon · · Score: 3, Informative

      Flickr uses Yahoo Maps though, which is mediocre compared to Google Maps. Honestly, try zooming in on a place in Flickr and compare it with the zoomed in view on Google. The view on Google Maps is much clearer.

  3. Here's my tutorial by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Informative
    1. Install drupal with the image, image_gallery, gmap, location, and gmap_location modules enabled.
    2. ?
    3. Profit! (okay, you might need the ecommerce module for this step.)

    This combination will allow you to upload images, organize them into galleries, and display them with location information.

    The locations of nodes can be plotted on a map (links to demos can be found from the gmap module project node) just so.

    That guy's solution provides a niftier image browser popup, but the overall functionality is available through drupal without having to write any code.

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  4. LtL by updog · · Score: 2, Informative

    A friend of mine did something like this a while ago - check out Larry the Llama, a geographic photo sharing site. It's pretty cool, especially for a not-for-profit self-sufficient personal project...

  5. PicasaWeb RSS feed and Google Maps App by jambay · · Score: 2, Informative
    If anyone uses Picasa, I wrote a simple app that takes the location data in the Picasa Web RSS feed and generates a map with a list of albums in the feed and push pins. I'm willing to share this code freely if there is a place to put it or share it with the folks at Google working on Picasa. It is a java app that deploys on Tomcat. You can contact me at jambay @ yahoo . com

    There is a form on the bottom that takes in the URL of a Picasa Web RSS feed that it will try and parse.

    Picture of the app:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/7639541@N07/445440913 /

  6. Geotagging with Picasa & Google Earth by stunt_penguin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Picasa and Google Earth have an interface that allows you to geotag your photos and see them on GE's 3d globe: http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/06/picasa_google_e.h tml The data is added to the JPEG's EXIF so the photos will be map-placeable by other applications such as this one, or the rather excellent tools on Flickr. Now, if they'd just build GPS into a camera :D

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    1. Re:Geotagging with Picasa & Google Earth by Forthan+Red · · Score: 2, Informative

      You don't really need a gps in your camera. Just sync up the camera's clock with the time on your GPS, and turn its tracking function on. Software can them match up the picture's timecode with timecodes in the tracking file to determine the location you were at when you clicked the shutter.

    2. Re:Geotagging with Picasa & Google Earth by raymondlowe · · Score: 2, Informative

      I did this, it works great. The best software I found (free) is from a semi-abandoned Microsoft Research project called WWMX. Get their "location stamper" utility.

      http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/D etails/eadb6a33-b1b8-4c4d-b713-64fae728f74f/Detail s.aspx

      Give it a .GPX file from your GPS unit, then give it a bunch of pictures and it will add the location into the EXIF. Does backups of pics if you want -- gives you several options on how to deal with pics that don't match any obvious point in the gpx file.

  7. Panoramio by scooter.higher · · Score: 2, Informative

    But Panoramio links show up in Google Earth, and can also be browsed using Google Maps.

    Here are the pictures I have taken and uploaded (not much I know, but I just started playing with it):

    http://www.panoramio.com/user/336919

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