TripMap - work in progress
So far, I have overlaid 8 trips on top of Google’s map. It is pretty easy now that I have the code set up, but finding out the longitude and latitude of each location is a bit laborious. There are a couple options of automating the process:
- Hooking up a GPS receiver to your digital camera while you take photos. Obviously, this makes your camera bulky and isn’t conducive to taking photos in the outdoors.
- Using software on a PC that downloads your photos and data from your GPS receiver and then matches the timestamps embedded in photos to the GPS coordinates. This is a decent system, although it requires you to purchase the software.
- Writing a web application myself which matches the photos with the GPS data
- Buying a camera, like the Richo Pro G3 GPS, that embeds the GPS data into the photo.
The last option would be the best for me, as I currently don’t have a GPS receiver and am in the market for a new digital camera. I could upload photos to my website, then write a program with PHP that grabs the data from the photos, populates database with the longitude and latitiude and then displays the photos on the map. Hopefully, more vendors will start adding this option to their cameras, as I would like to pick up a SLR camera with GPS capability in the near future.