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slug
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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:58 pm


nolock:
Glad to see you noticed this already.
I've been looking at your photos while testing the maps feature since many of your photos already had GPS data in them.
Especially interesting since they have altitude data. Looks like a lot of fun flying around with a camera.

We're fixing the lat/long entry boxes to accept other formats besides decimal.
But I'm going through your photos right now and expect about 800 of yours to be mapped in a few minutes.
Hope you won't mind if I post a link to http://maps.pbase.com/nolock so other people can have a look.

Curious to know what hardware/software you used to get the GPS data into your JPEGs.


-slug

csloan
 
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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:21 pm


Glad to see that PBase has finally implemented this, although its utility is still somewhat limited pending the addition of the ability to extract the GPS info from the EXIF file. This is progress, though, so hopefully I will be able to move my galleries back over to PBase from SmugMug soon.

Tagging photos with GPS information is easy. I use the little Sony GPS logger in the field (it is small and clips neatly onto my camera strap). When I'm read to download the pics into my computer for editing, I simply plug both the camera and the GPS device into separate USB ports for the download. I use a software program from BreezeSys called Downloader Pro, which is the best photo downloader I've found. It will automatically pull the GPS data from the logger and embed it into the EXIF of the photo as part of the download process. The software supports RAW, which is what I always shoot (although I convert to DNG as part of the download, and the software does that automatically too).

In short, it's very easy to do, at least with this combination of the Sony logger and the BreezeSys software.

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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:40 pm


I too have a GPS and am waiting for PBase to automatically extract the Long/Lat info as well as City, State, Country I have embedded in the EXIF/IPTC.

You can see some photos with the embedded GPS information by going to:
http://www.pbase.com/ssprengel/geotagged
I want the location to be automatically recognized like they are on SmugMug ( via [Map This!] ):
http://ssprengel.smugmug.com/gallery/4494403_W2fzA
Also notice the keywords that are automatically extracted from the EXIF/IPTC. The only keywords I assigned, myself, were Pioneers Park and GPS, the rest came from the information embedded via my geotagging process.
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As far as how I geotag my photos:

I am currently using a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx to create the tracklogs and using GeoSetter (free) http://www.geosetter.de/en/ to embed the Long/Lat into the EXIF of my CRW files as well as putting the City, State, Country in my IPTC tags, then I use Lightroom to create the JPGs for uploading. BTW, SmugMug has a Lightroom export plugin to automatically upload photos directly from Lightroom. Does PBase have such a thing?

For the PC environment RobeGeo ($) also works for tagging the newer .CR2 files, but not the older .CRWs that my camera produces.

GeoSetter is nice because you can preview the location of the images on a built-in GoogleMap before saving the changes to the files. This helps detect the camera-clock being off or other synchronization issues.

Periodically, I synchronize my PC's clock to the GPS satellites using MapSource and then synchronize my camera's clock to the PC via an option in Canon's Remote Capture program.

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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:43 pm


Allright, photos with GPS info in the EXIF data should now automatically be geotagged on upload.

So far, all my tests are working, but it's possible that some cameras or software might be storing GPS data in a different way than I'm expecting.
If you think there's GPS info in your photo and it doesn't seem to work when you upload, let me know the image_id and I'll figure it out.

You can tell if it worked, because there should be a "view map" link under the photo when viewing a single image.

We also just added a "map" link on the top right of the gallery page, if any of the photos in the gallery are geotagged. Here's an example at http://maps.pbase.com/tcom/westerndesert

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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:49 pm


ssprengel,
Try http://maps.pbase.com/ssprengel/geotagged
That gallery should all be tagged now, and anything you upload in the future with GPS in the EXIF.

-slug

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Post Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:45 pm


ckirby: If you start out at a tag that says '2+' you have three tabs to choose from 'cluster', 'image', and 'info'. After you go to the image and then return, the 'cluster' choice is gone.

This may be how you designed it but I hope you reconsider. My audience is not going to be savvy enough to try zooming out and zooming back in.

Carey

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:29 am


Didn't realize this thread was here, I posted this in the Questions forum which probably won't get read/recognized:

http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?t=36658

ricecake
 
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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:41 am


Thanks, Slug and Emily. I had fun doing a couple of photos, but the third one gives me a blank page instead of a map http://maps.pbase.com/ricecake/image/93418621
Maybe it is Windows Vista (I blame everything on it), or maybe it will work tomorrow. I've tried it a few times but can't see a map on this one. I have also reset it - put the address in again. Still nothing.
It's a fun way to avoid what I should be doing though.
Anne

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:06 am


I see the embedded GPS EXIF is shoing View Map links, now.
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Regarding the WesternDesert gallery, there is a quirk:

When viewing this image on the map using the View Map link below it:
http://www.pbase.com/image/76423802
I really want to see where this cave is on the map but it does not seem to be working the way it should.

At the zoom level that the map pops up as for me, which is 6 or 7-steps down from the top, the red-single-photo pin is on top of another 10+ group. This makes it difficult to zoom in quickly to see which photo this is. Either all the pins should be grouped into a single 10+ group, or even more useful, the zoom-magnifiying-glass should be on every photo, not just grouped photos. Why should it be that if I want to zoom in on the exact location of a specific photo, I can't unless it is part of a group.
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There is another annoying thing happening, and that is once the thumbnail is displayed in the caption-balloon above a pin, I have to click on that same pin to close that thumbnail before I can look at another. An improvement would be that if I click on another pin the first thumbnail closes, no matter where it is, and the clicked pin thumbnail pops up. Even better, the thumbnails should pop up if I merely hover the cursor over a pin.

Imagine if a regular thumbnail gallery worked this way. Every thumbnail is a black square, until I click on one, then I get to see it, then I have to click on it, again, to make it black, then I can click on another one. Thumbnails are small so you can see more than one at a time. If only one thumbnail is going to ever be shown, then I'd rather see a 320 or 640-sized preview image, instead of something so tiny.

The fact a thumbnail is tied to a particular position on the earth is not so compelling that the visual evaluation of the gallery via thumbnails, should be limited to one postage-stamp sized image at a time.

It would be really nice if there were next/prev arrows on the bottom of every thumbnail to view the next image in the set based on the order of the images in the gallery, perhaps.

In fact, I wouldn't mind if there was a way to see all the thumbnails at a time, with some sort of consolidation if they get too dense.

Have you ever used Windows Media Player, where is puts mutliple CDs on top of eachother in a little whirled design, with the most recently ripped one on top. This make the most recent CD's thumbnail the representative one, as well as giving some indication of how many there are beneath.

mardoli
 
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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:23 am


Hello!
I feel quite stupid, but I could not manage to geotag any of my photos...
I entered the url
http://maps.pbase.com/mardoli
Then I saw the button
“Geotag your photosâ€

lenightowl
 
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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:30 am


ckirby wrote:Just click the 'Geotag your photos' button at the top left (...)

On what page? I don't see any such button :(
Marie-Hélène Raletz (lenightowl)

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:24 pm


mardoli wrote:Hello!
I feel quite stupid, but I could not manage to geotag any of my photos...
I entered the url
http://maps.pbase.com/mardoli
Then I saw the button
“Geotag your photosâ€

Browser, OS and connection type?

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:26 pm


nkirby wrote:
Browser, OS and connection type?

Internet Explorer 7, Adsl and OS I don't know what is ( Sorry, English is not my mother tongue)
Marisa

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:27 pm


OK, I found how to do it.
Marie-Hélène Raletz (lenightowl)

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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:30 pm


mardoli wrote:
nkirby wrote:
Browser, OS and connection type?

Internet Explorer 7, Adsl and OS I don't know what is ( Sorry, English is not my mother tongue)
Marisa

Ah, I tried with Firefox and it seems to work, so the problem should be with IE
Marisa

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