Using Photo Navigation

Never heard of it.

I think it was a way to pick a route by photo. Kind of gimmicky, but sounded cool. Still wondering what the image file is for.

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Using Photo Navigation
You can upload pictures onto your device or
memory card that include location information
and create routes to the pictured locations.

Here are a couple of links.

http://randomconnections.com/photo-navigation/

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/36785

But don't know much about it. I don't think it ever really took off.

Never heard of this type of technology.

Sounds like you can still hack it, but...I'll have to read the whole thing.

The Garmin link gives you....

Garmin Connect Photos are no longer available.
https://connect.garmin.com/photos

From bear007
It looks like the new BaseCamp program will do something with photo navigation also but I have no experience with it.

http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2009/08/plan-a-route-geota...

Can't get the "quote" to work.

A lot of tablets, smartphones and some cameras have the ability to store the coordinates of the location the photo was taken in the pictures data file. My Samsung Note Tablet stores location info on the photos I take with it.

If I download those photos into the "Pictures" subdirectory on my 3790 and then go "Where To?> Favorites> Photos" it will show the photos that have the location info in them and if you select a photo you can then navigate using the GPS to the same exact location it was taken at.

That's what I'M talking about. (somehow that doesn't translate well into text. LOL)

Unfortunately I don't have a good phone and my camera doesn't store metadata. I'll have to find a harder way.
Have to check out LightRoom or Picasa.

Free download - Geosetter will allow you to add GPS coordinates to photos and show their locations on a map. Even better, if you save a track file and put it into the same folder as your photos, it will use the time stamp in the track file points and the time stamp on your photos and automatically geocode the location on the whole folder of photos whenever there is a match.

I carry a Garmin eTrex 30 and save my tracks when hiking or we're on vacation. I download the recorded track file from the eTrex and save it into the same folder that I have downloaded my photos into. Run GeoSetter and tell it to batch process the folder, and it geocodes an entire folder in a minute or two. The 'auto' option works pretty well, but you have to be really careful that the time/date in the camera and the time/date in the GPS are exactly the same.

Of course, you can manually do that, one at a time. Or select a group of photos and have it enter the same coordinates to them all at once.

It is rather cool to open a folder of pictures and select show on map and have it open Google Maps with pushpins of where the photos were taken.

And yes, once geocoded, you can select a photo on the GPS and select "Navigate" to where the photo was taken. I don't use this on my Nuvi, but I do on the eTrex. I have one photo stored on the eTrex. It's a pic of my house. 'Take me home, James.'

Never tried this yet.

My 1390 didn't have a "Pictures" folder, just "JPEG", which I tried using quite a while back (http://www.poi-factory.com/node/36785). So I created a "Pictures" folder and copied a photo into it, but still no joy.

Where is the "Pictures" subdirectory on your 3790?

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Using Picasa now. No need to time stamp if your just adding pics to GE.

Time to save for a new addition to the Nuvi.

On my 3790 it is in the root directory along with the Garmin subdirectory and many others.

The photo navigation feature is no longer supported on the 2013 models.

We got that awhile back. I think we were just covering alternatives.Really a lot of neat stuff out there to keep one busy. (or dizzy) LOL

I took a photo of my husband in his chair and with my Nexus 7 and the next time we went out I used Copilot to get us home by using that photo. It worked great.