February 03, 2004

Photos with maps?

Programs are popping up everywhere to share photos via email or over the Internet. Many of these are timeline based--which makes a lot of sense. But sometimes I'd also like to know where the photo was taken. I'm wondering, does anyone know of an application that can overlay maps (temporarily) in a viewer? A map-augmented photo might look like this:

PhotoWithMap.gif

I imagine there's a program out there that does this.

I'm looking for something simple, with not much more complexity than say PhotoStory. Seems like I should be able to walk through each photo within a wizard, type in a location or drill down to it's location in a map (wouldn't it be cool if cameras auto-captured GPS info too?), select a map style, and then generate a slide show.

(Searching for something like this is a bit tricky I've found. I don't know quite the right words to use in Google so I'm finding a lot of stuff I'm not interested in. And, who knows, I might have tripped across the right program, but read right past it.)

Posted by Loren at February 3, 2004 08:49 AM
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I've read that there are some digital cameras that allow you to connect a GPS and it will save the info in the EXIF header. I'm not sure what cameras are able to do it.

Posted by: Rick Lobrecht on February 3, 2004 09:51 AM

You might want to check out the Microsoft Research project WWMX at http://wwmx.org. Its not exactly what you are looking for, but its kinda cool.

Posted by: Matt Williams on February 3, 2004 11:25 AM

Matt, Thanks for the link. I had taken a quick look at WWMX, but I have to admit I didn't dig very far. My first impression was that it was a community photo-posting site. I'll look again.

Posted by: Loren on February 3, 2004 01:07 PM

Rick, I see from Google that Kodak had a GPS camera/camera system for awhile, but I'm not sure now. A GPS-equipped camera sure sounds like a winning capability to me.

Posted by: Loren on February 3, 2004 01:17 PM

This product lets you link your photos to a map using the gps track log. Only works for New Zealand though. http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/index.html

Posted by: jim on February 3, 2004 11:20 PM

RE: WWMX. Using the client application, you can add photos, and it will create a PhotoStory with a map overlay showing your geographic path.

Posted by: Matt on February 8, 2004 04:51 PM
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