another suggestion

dizavedizave Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
edited May 17, 2004 in SmugMug Support
So I was about to write a utility to put GPS data in the EXIF info, but I see it has already been done about a million times. Which is nice.

So in the spirit of annoying Baldy with SmugMug suggestions, I'd like to suggest two ways that GPS info could be used in smugmug that might be cool:

1. Searching by lat/long. Find pictures near a spot of interest to you.

2. Links to terraserver. Get aerial views of where the pic was shot. Maybe overlay a bunch of pics in a gallery onto them, hyperlinked. OK, this might not be as compelling as search.

Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere. "GPS" is too small of a search term for VB.

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2004
    Geek. :D
    Sid.
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Geek. :D

    He can figure out how to do that, but has yet to make an avatar?? headscratch.gifne_nau.gifrolleyes1.gifumph.gif
  • dizavedizave Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited April 30, 2004
    patch29 wrote:
    He can figure out how to do that, but has yet to make an avatar?? headscratch.gifne_nau.gifrolleyes1.gifumph.gif
    doh!

    here is a links page on the topic. Am I the only one who finds this interesting?

    Here is an important application of this technology.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2004
    dizave wrote:
    doh!

    here is a links page on the topic. Am I the only one who finds this interesting?

    Here is an important application of this technology.

    Great, now I have to shoot restrooms wherever I go. umph.gif

    rolleyes1.gif
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited April 30, 2004
    I find it interesting, but my Canon's are not set up to use the data so I live without it.
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2004
    One of Dizaveydoodog's links had a link to a great idea. It's an unusual digital clock. Each change of time is a new photograph, submutted by just plain folks.

    It's great! Sample times:



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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2004
    Another cool one.

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    And 11doh.gif how about the link, Sid? Here ya go: http://www.humanclock.com
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • dizavedizave Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited May 1, 2004
    patch29 wrote:
    I find it interesting, but my Canon's are not set up to use the data so I live without it.
    Right now, most cameras don't use it, except maybe the D1H? But programs like location stamper from the wwmx site can take your EXIF'd jpegs and your GPS tracklogs and figure it out. I'm going to try it out later today.
  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2004
    dizave wrote:
    Right now, most cameras don't use it, except maybe the D1H? But programs like location stamper from the wwmx site can take your EXIF'd jpegs and your GPS tracklogs and figure it out. I'm going to try it out later today.

    Sounds interesting, let us know how it works out.
  • cmr164cmr164 Registered Users Posts: 1,542 Major grins
    edited May 1, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Great, now I have to shoot restrooms wherever I go. umph.gif

    rolleyes1.gif
    And shortly thereafter the local gaol....
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  • MainFraggerMainFragger Registered Users Posts: 563 Major grins
    edited May 17, 2004
    This reminds me of a Styx song...
    wxwax wrote:
    One of Dizaveydoodog's links had a link to a great idea. It's an unusual digital clock. Each change of time is a new photograph, submutted by just plain folks.



    full-ebf20979e88bd9406f49d862d24a553e.jpgfull-6649eef2dd6a611190aaed4b3b6275fc.jpgfull-68188a80a9c1bdb49bba7c7d404c21b4.jpgfull-db6295dafb2e9c556dcd255263e9e600.jpg
    This reminds me of an old Styx song... "I've got tooooo much time on my hands, toooo much time on my hands......too much time on my hAaands!..too much time on my hAaands!..."
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