paille lomas ade2008 geolocation

Mashing up photos

and informatio

n with Google Maps

1) Turn on

your GPS at your

starting point

2) Get the GPS to

create a track

3) Go for your

walk & take

pictures

4) when back, plug in, download file

5) Export track file from GPS software

6) Use GPSvisualizer.com

to change GPS track file into KMZ

7) Upload it to any webserver

http://homepage.mac.com/gpaille/cavell.kmz

8) Search Google Maps using the file

URL

•Save it to your maps

•see what photos and wikipedia articles have been contributed by others

•Contribute to the wikipedia articles

•Create your own wikipedia articles

7) Enjoy...

Put your flickr photos into Google

Maps

•Upload your photos to flickr

•tag with something appropriate for the location (http://tinyurl.com/5a2lo4)

•geotag them (http://tinyurl.com/5bcofv)

Put your flickr photos into Google

Maps •find the RSS feed for the specific event tag

•Copy the link for the GeoFeed

Go crazy

•scavenger hunt

•Google Maps math

•calculating track length & area

•embed track map in web page

•associating geological formations, soil types & flora + fauna to elevation and geography

•remember to ‘tag it’

•Gerry Paille & Cyprien Lomas