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Morten Grathe

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Last friday Julieanne Kost from Adobe made a very impressive Lightroom-presentation in Copenhagen.

 

One of the things she showed was, that with coordinates from a GPS in the metadata, you can click on the coordinates, and the location shows up in Google Maps. The setup was preset, so I didn't get how she did it. Back home, I did some experimentations, but I can't get it to work.

 

I think it's a very cool feature, especially for travel-photography. So if any of you know how it works, I would like to know.

 

Best regards,

Morten

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Last friday Julieanne Kost from Adobe made a very impressive Lightroom-presentation in Copenhagen.

 

One of the things she showed was, that with coordinates from a GPS in the metadata, you can click on the coordinates, and the location shows up in Google Maps. The setup was preset, so I didn't get how she did it. Back home, I did some experimentations, but I can't get it to work.

 

I think it's a very cool feature, especially for travel-photography. So if any of you know how it works, I would like to know.

 

Best regards,

Morten

 

Morten,

 

Sony can supply a GPS dongle which plugs into various of their cameras, which then write the GPS coordinates into the EXIF. This can be interpreted by various other bits of software to give you for example the Google Earth cross hairs. I would guess other camera makers are following suit.

 

 

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Jobo have a similar GPS product - the photoGPS - which could be used with an M8 (or any other camera for that matter). It looks like a decent enough gadget if you don't mind the size.

 

I can see that there may be some value in knowing the GPS coordinates of a particular shot (especially when it comes to keywording travel related stock) but I don't often have a problem remembering the location (even when it was taken many years ago).

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A couple of solutions are on the market. IIRC, only Sony has a direct connection between camera and GPS, all other are basically a GPS logger. The data, "when you were where" is stored in a log file and afterwards connected to the pictures, mostly by using time format sync.

 

There are some tutorials, you might wanna check this:

Andre on Tech: Rails, Geocoding, and Google Maps

 

Some of the newer GPS devices do offer this automatically for various map services.

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Never used Google maps but can't you just type in the GPS cordinates and the map will go to that location?

Wouldn't this be something that is good for forensic work, like for police and such, and just a toy for the others of the world to fool with.

DATA, DATA to much DATA to deal with. Give me the good old day of a note pad and pencil.

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A couple of solutions are on the market. IIRC, only Sony has a direct connection between camera and GPS, all other are basically a GPS logger. The data, "when you were where" is stored in a log file and afterwards connected to the pictures, mostly by using time format sync.

 

There are some tutorials, you might wanna check this:

Andre on Tech: Rails, Geocoding, and Google Maps

 

Some of the newer GPS devices do offer this automatically for various map services.

 

Thanks, I will try and look into it.

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