anoisette

i just added a page to my site featuring my trippermap. it grabs my geotagged photos from flickr and puts them on a map of the world. i love being able to look at a map of the world and seeing some of the places i’ve been (and all the places i have yet to go!). i geotag my photos in a couple of ways. one way is to do it directly in flickr using the map function. the other way is a little more involved. i make sure that my garmin geko 201 is on and tracking when i take a photo. once home, i download the tracklog to a computer using gps utility. next i import the tracklog into wwmx location stamper as well as the photos i want to tag. the location stamper software matches the time stamp of the tracks in the tracklog to the time stamps on the photos and writes the location to the photos exif data. once that’s done i upload them to flickr and the geotags are automatically read. it sounds like a long process but it’s really quite simple. the geko is also fun to take hiking since it can track the distance you have traveled and your average moving speed. having all that (possibly useless information) appeals to geek in me. it also works as a compass if you get lost while hiking! and you can use to participate in geocaching. when i bought it over a year ago i seriously debated whether i should spend the money to get it, but i’ve been very happy with it. no regrets.