Geography and Mapping link question

piolet_rampe · March 31, 2009

Hi, I am new here. I searched but was unable to find an answer to my question.

I appreciate the ability to link a photo to Google maps, but have an interest in linking an entire Gallery. This seems like it should be simple. Can anyone provide me with any tips? I realize there is something called a exif file that can embed location data, however I don't have this and probably won't hook up a GPS to my camera with any regularity.

An alternate solution might be to edit/create an exif file through some batch process prior to uploading. Thoughts?

Phyxius · April 1, 2009

I couldn't find anything about linking the entire gallery to the map, but here's the help page for using mapping. - http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps

EXIF is per photo, so it still wouldn't be the whole gallery, but the smugmug blog has some good info on tagging your photos with gps.
http://blogs.smugmug.com/baldy/2005/08/16/tagging-photos-with-a-gps/

More on geotagging or geocoding - http://www.organizepictures.com/2009/01/methods-for-geotagging-pictures

I also found this - http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/help/geotag.htm but it looks like a LOT more work than using the "edit geography" option here on smugmug.

rainforest1155 · April 2, 2009

Have a look at GeoSetter. That should allow you to easily map your photos on your computer before uploading them to SmugMug.

Sebastian

mikefalzon · April 4, 2009

A related question if I may.
I have uploaded an album of some 300+ photos
Some 270 are geotagged. However only 200 show up on the map. I tried adding another few photos with tags, but thye are not showing up.
Is there a limit on the number that can be shown on the map?

piolet_rampe · April 7, 2009

rainforest1155 wrote:

Have a look at GeoSetter. That should allow you to easily map your photos on your computer before uploading them to SmugMug.

Sebastian

Thanks for the tips! Geosetter is a useful program. I have selected a few photos, but in the "smugmap" page that you get when you click on one of the green picture symbols, there is a small link in the lower right corner that says "Google Earth".

When I click on this, it takes me to some location in the Atlantic Ocean, instead of in Nepal. Does anyone have experience with this particular functionality? Try it on the map for yourself. http://www.mountains2sea.us/

thanks again!

rainforest1155 · April 7, 2009

mikefalzon wrote:

A related question if I may.
I have uploaded an album of some 300+ photos
Some 270 are geotagged. However only 200 show up on the map. I tried adding another few photos with tags, but thye are not showing up.
Is there a limit on the number that can be shown on the map?

Hi Mike and welcome to Dgrin!

By default, there's a limit on how many photos are shown on the map. Try adding the &ImageCount=xx at the end of the maps feed url. Replace xx with whatever number of photos you would like in the feed.
All the details on feeds are here.

Sebastian

rainforest1155 · April 7, 2009

piolet_rampe wrote:

Thanks for the tips! Geosetter is a useful program. I have selected a few photos, but in the "smugmap" page that you get when you click on one of the green picture symbols, there is a small link in the lower right corner that says "Google Earth".

When I click on this, it takes me to some location in the Atlantic Ocean, instead of in Nepal. Does anyone have experience with this particular functionality? Try it on the map for yourself. http://www.mountains2sea.us/

Are you sure that all your photos have captions and that 'hello smuggers' and geography is turned on and that privacy is set to public in all your galleries with mapped photos?

Sebastian

piolet_rampe · April 7, 2009

rainforest1155 wrote:

Are you sure that all your photos have captions and that 'hello smuggers' and geography is turned on and that privacy is set to public in all your galleries with mapped photos?

Sebastian

Yes, I just checked and I have both of those checked to make my album public.

piolet_rampe · April 7, 2009

piolet_rampe wrote:

Yes, I just checked and I have both of those checked to make my album public.

I have just verified that this problem is specific to the "new" Google Earth version 5.0. I tried it at work with an older version 4.xx and this "google earth" link worked perfectly, opening up the .kml file in the program google Earth and zooming right in on the points on my album that I have featured on the map.

It looks like SmugMug needs to do a little work to make SmugMaps compliant with version 5.0 of Google Earth.

piolet_rampe · April 7, 2009

piolet_rampe wrote:

I have just verified that this problem is specific to the "new" Google Earth version 5.0. I tried it at work with an older version 4.xx and this "google earth" link worked perfectly, opening up the .kml file in the program google Earth and zooming right in on the points on my album that I have featured on the map.

It looks like SmugMug needs to do a little work to make SmugMaps compliant with version 5.0 of Google Earth.

Thanks for your patience. Today I have tried a number of things and it became apparent that Google Earth was zooming in over the Atlantic because this was the center of all three of my albums that use geography, One in Europe, one in USA, and one in Nepal meaning the average of all those points places you square in the Atlantic.

After realizing this I went in to the Gallery customization and temporarily removed the public availability for Google and searching settings from the USA album. After doing this, clicking on the "google earth" link in the lower right began to work as advertised. After reinstating the public availability setting for the USA gallery, the link is working correctly for all three galleries now in Google Earth.

I am glad to have it work before I share this with the intended audience, but I imagine this may become problematic in the future as I intend to add geography to many more galleries. Hopefully it is something easy the SmugMug can work on, and not dependent on Google themselves.

Thanks again for assistance and putting up with my issue.

rainforest1155 · April 10, 2009

piolet_rampe wrote:

Thanks for your patience. Today I have tried a number of things and it became apparent that Google Earth was zooming in over the Atlantic because this was the center of all three of my albums that use geography, One in Europe, one in USA, and one in Nepal meaning the average of all those points places you square in the Atlantic.

After realizing this I went in to the Gallery customization and temporarily removed the public availability for Google and searching settings from the USA album. After doing this, clicking on the "google earth" link in the lower right began to work as advertised. After reinstating the public availability setting for the USA gallery, the link is working correctly for all three galleries now in Google Earth.

I am glad to have it work before I share this with the intended audience, but I imagine this may become problematic in the future as I intend to add geography to many more galleries. Hopefully it is something easy the SmugMug can work on, and not dependent on Google themselves.

Thanks again for assistance and putting up with my issue.

Thanks for the additional details. I'm glad that you figured the source of the issue out. Did that happen with Google Earth 4, too? Or just with version 5?

Sebastian

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