One day soon, the majority of cameras will come with built-in GPS like this Ricoh Pro G3. Then it will become so much easier to add geo-spatial metatags to photos. And once the online photo services such as Flickr start to handle this stuff under the covers, then I’ll be able to use Google Earth to show and navigate photo odysseys without any effort at all…
Cameras and GPS
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You might want to check out http://www.magnalox.net/ which allows you to create animated GPS track stories (and include photos), and output the track, stories, and photos to Google Earth.Also, a program called RoboGEO also allows you to georeference photos in mass and output them to Google Earth along with the GPS track.
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Frank, thanks for these pointers – I’ll take a look. I find the community that has sprung up around Google Earth to be an interesting phenomenon.
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