It is this data space that Chinese underground students used to report to the world info that otherwise would not have gotten past the censors of the Government. It is loaded with data such as date and time, digital camera data and its setting, to name a few. While upgrading Irfan recently I came across a “readme” to a feature of an optional utility that dealt with the information stored in any image file generated by a digital camera. If you’ve got nothing better to do, give it a try. You can then do a “tour” that follows the track just like you’re flying along with me (but at least 3000 feet higher).
#LOADMYTRACKS FULL#
Without going into a full blown description or review, I’ll just say that you can take a GPS track, like the one from my trip, and open it in Google Earth. If you haven’t wasted time with Google Earth, you’re missing out on a great time-sucking experience. I also ran the KML version of the file though Google Earth. (As if I needed another one.) When I get it all working smoothly, you’ll probably find an article about it here.Īnyway, there is a side benefit to this.
But this gives me a geeky project to work on. I have to reset the clock on the camera - preferably with my computer so the time is right - and try again on another trip.
#LOADMYTRACKS SOFTWARE#
Since the software uses time to match coordinates with photos, there were no matches. Then I loaded it into GPSPhotoLinker, pointed the software to a folder containing the 18 or so photos I’d taken during the flight, and sat back to watch the results.ĭisappointment. I brought the file into TextWrangler, my text editor of choice, and deleted all the unnecessary data to trim down the file.
#LOADMYTRACKS MAC OS#
I sucked the data off the GPS in Mac OS with a one-trick pony program called LoadMyTracks, which saves in both the GPX format I needed for GPSPhotoLinker and KML (Google Earth) format. I figured I’d pull the data off the GPS and record the coordinates of a photo location in the photo’s EXIF tags. One of the members, in an answer to another member, mentioned a Mac OS program called GPSPhotoLinker, which can link photographs to GPS data. Today, I was reading messages in an aerial photography forum I follow. What I didn’t mention in my account of that flight is that I had my GPS on and running, creating a track log of the trip. On Day 5, I flew from Monument Valley to Shiprock Airport to Farmington Airport, by way of the San Juan River. You can read the first part of the story here. I recently wrote a lengthy account of my “Big September Gig,” in which I spent six days flying around northeastern Arizona with a team of 15 or so Russian photographers.
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