GPS, Digital Camera and Google Earth

 

I ran across a program, GPicSync, which will take a GPS track file and insert the latitude and longitude into your digital pictures based on the time stamp.

Once your pictures have the latitude and longitude embedded, the track and picture locations can be loaded onto Google Earth. Makes for a nice way to describe a trip to friends and family.

The software is Open Source. One does need to be exact about the time function on your digital camera, though. Otherwise the time stamp matching will incorrectly identify your picture locations.

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___________________ Garmin 2455, 855, Oregon 550t

How???

So how does a Time Stamp equate to Lat/Long coordinates?

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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

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I'm guessing because it matches the time in the tracklog of that point with the timestamp of the picture.

Won't work without the tracklog.

exactly

It matches the timestamp of the picture with a timestamp in the track log from the GPS. Then takes the matching lat/long from that track log and populates fields in the digital picture information area.

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___________________ Garmin 2455, 855, Oregon 550t

Ok...

So you actually have to set up a program first and the TS coorelates to that prgram etc right? Why not just save the Lat/Long as a Fav and while uploading the photos to your hard drive add the Lat/Long to the meta Data?

Is track log a program that can be uploaded to the NUVI??

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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

I guess

Frisbee Golfer wrote:

Is track log a program that can be uploaded to the NUVI??

I guess it is a feature in GPSr units that able to track and save your route.

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A tracklog is a record of where you have been with your GPS unit. It's a feature that your GPS unit either has or doesn't have. It's not something that you can add to your unit.

Here are some screenshots of what it looks like on the unit and the data in MapSource.

http://i27.tinypic.com/2qd8m01.jpg

http://i26.tinypic.com/6q8uvn.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2mcw12q.jpg