smugmug's eye on nyc - mapped gallery

Andy

shay and i teamed up to put together a promo gallery of nyc shots, to show what can be done with the new maps feature on smugmug. it's very very cool!

we had to enter latitude and longitude information manually into the exif (can be done very easily thru the smugmug gallery interface, you can even use a lookup feature within smugmug to get the coordinates!). once the camera mfgrs integrate gps onboard, why then the info will be in the exif already :thumb

please have a look

if you have google earth installed on your computer, simply click on the google earth feed button on the bottom of the screen.. then open the feed file and google earth will automatically open and show you the mapped shots

if you don't have google earth, then click on the "map this" button on the upper right portion of the gallery screen - it will take you to the thin client version (served up by smugmug) of google maps and show you the photos that way.

either way....

enjoy (mapped) photography,

gluwater

That's pretty cool. Is this what they were collecting pictures for? And if so where are they?

Nick

Andy

gluwater wrote:

That's pretty cool. Is this what they were collecting pictures for? And if so where are they?

Nick

that was a separate effort - you can find the smugmug world tour here

thanks

gluwater

andy wrote:

that was a separate effort - you can find the smugmug world tour here

thanks

Oops, I totaly missed that thread. Thanks Andy.

Oh, and thanks to you and shay for taking the time to put together the ny shots, again, it's really cool

Nir

very cool andy!!

pete w

Andy thats a great idea
Care to share the method of achieving this.

This could be the start of something big in the travel industry??

How about soliciting for state pics?

Goggle Earth is a great tool i used it to help in finding a home in Reno.

Thanks for sharing

Andy

Nir wrote:

very cool andy!!

thanks nir

ginger_55

What is google earth? How do I get it? Would it be easiest to just "google" google earth?

Looks fantastic from what I can see.

ginger

Andy

ginger_55 wrote:

What is google earth? How do I get it? Would it be easiest to just "google" google earth?

Looks fantastic from what I can see.

ginger

take a look here google earth it's a free download, look for the linky upper right corner of that page...

cheers

ginger_55

andy wrote:

take a look here google earth it's a free download, look for the linky upper right corner of that page...

cheers

OH, that is so super cool, and my PC is 3 yrs old, etc, but it works! I have e-mailed my whole family! And some friends!

I could see my car!

Sara is house hunting now in Columbia and her PC is relatively new. It is so super cool.

Thanks, you all.

I will now look at the places for NYC and smugmug.

ginger

wxwax

Super job. Perfect for shooters visiting a new location.

Phil U.

Holy %&%@! Hey SM gods - you F-ing Rock!

MarkS

Way cool! Now how do i get the google earth feed on my gallery??

USAIR

MarkS wrote:

Way cool! Now how do i get the google earth feed on my gallery??

with everyone very cool
And how do you get thet feed on your gallery?


Fred

Andy

how to map a gallery for google maps

MarkS wrote:

Way cool! Now how do i get the google earth feed on my gallery??

first, you have to have photos that have lat/long info in the exif. you can add this info in the edit photo dropdown box, you'll see a new choice, edit geography.

enable maps in your customize gallery setup

the gallery must be *public* not private :nono

when you have maps enabled, you'll see the google maps feed button on the bottom of your screen (for the google earth feed) and a "map this" button on the upper right of your screen (for the maps.google.com interface).

voila!

Baldy

Hey Andy,

You might wanna think about keywords in that gallery so people can easily pick areas of interest — uptown, downtown, tribeca...

Here's an example in the Rated and Located in Silicon Valley gallery. We have it so keywords are available below each photo, so you can quickly see The New Hotness companies, the Old and Busted, Evil, etc.

Thanks,
Baldy

(erem... Onethumb did a special hack in that gallery so the markers are different colors depending on hotness.)

Andy

Baldy wrote:

Hey Andy,

You might wanna think about keywords in that gallery so people can easily pick areas of interest — uptown, downtown, tribeca...

Here's an example in the Rated and Located in Silicon Valley gallery. We have it so keywords are available below each photo, so you can quickly see The New Hotness companies, the Old and Busted, Evil, etc.

Thanks,
Baldy

(erem... Onethumb did a special hack in that gallery so the markers are different colors depending on hotness.)

we'll take care of that today.

Kenundrum

the geography function was the first thing i noticed after the refresh of the design... i quickly started trying to find the coordinates of all my mountain trip pictures- and especially the elevations! thanks for explaining how to turn it on the in gallery!