Maps, GPS, and all that

[Iron Flatline]

Hi all.

Just signed up for the FRAPPR map thing. But that brought up a question: One blogger I know does a really cool thing, whereby he integrates a GPS coordinate with his blog, which in turn links to a map/satimage/hybrid.

Link: Pakal's photoblog (http://www.pakal.org/)

SO, in a template I could just leave myself a field into which I enter the coordinate, but as a link to such an application. Right?

Is there any other way to do something like this?

Hehe...too bad GPS isn't part of EXIF... yet.

[Iron Flatline]

Not to spam the forums, but I have evolved into a PP regular. Yey!

[Joe[y]]

you could do this using an addon in 1.5 - an input form could ask for gps coordinates at image upload and then a tag could relate this to a map. would be a bit of a challenge for any programmer - somebody might enjoy the challenge though! congrats on becomign a regular!

[PaKaL]

Hi all.

Just signed up for the FRAPPR map thing. But that brought up a question: One blogger I know does a really cool thing, whereby he integrates a GPS coordinate with his blog, which in turn links to a map/satimage/hybrid.

Link: Pakal's photoblog (http://www.pakal.org/)

SO, in a template I could just leave myself a field into which I enter the coordinate, but as a link to such an application. Right?

Is there any other way to do something like this?

Hehe...too bad GPS isn't part of EXIF... yet.


Hi, it's easy to do, you only need 2 fields (float) and you need to store the latitude and longitude values in decimal not in deg. min. sec. if you need some help to create a plugin for pixel post or for google map contact me...

About my coordinates I use a mini GPS and I write them down on a piece of paper... ;-)

Thank you for the promotion... ;-)

[Iron Flatline]

Excellent, PaKaL, good to meet you and thanks for participating. Listen, if you're serious and find you have the time, I certainly would be EXTREMELY grateful if you developed a plug-in/add-on for Pixelpost. As a search for my previous posts will clearly show, I am NOT technically savvy, so unfortunately I will not be able to contribute on that level.

I'm a huge fan of your blog, btw. Keep up the good work.

[Iron Flatline]

Btw, I found out that GPS data could be part of the EXIF. Adobe Brisge let's you manually edit a number of fields, and GPS is one of them. You'd still have to hand-enter it, but it is theoretically available.

[se.nsuo.us]

Nikon D2X records Lat and Long for every picture taken if it can as the part of EXIF - also you might also want to take a look at http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-microformats-and-geocoding.html - Written by a friend of mine it converts the geocoding microformat to Google maps - Uber Kewl stuff

[Iron Flatline]

Yes! I really want to have this on my site. I will play with this, and let everyone know what I can figure out.