I wanted to play around with GPS, geotagging, and Google Maps this weekend so I put together this map of a road trip I made through Limmen National Park with a mate while in Australia. He had a GPS unit that recorded our route, which he emailed to me. Sadly the unit didn’t collect time data alongside the waypoints, thus I was unable to automatically geotag my photos from the GPS data, using ‘time’ as the linking data. There were a few errors in the GPS data (dropped signal) which accounts for the straight lines on the map. I used Adam Franco’s wonderful ‘flickr PhotoSet to KML‘ script to generate a KML of my photo set that I combined with the GPS data in Google Earth. From Google Earth it was as simple as saving that combined data to a single KMZ file and uploading it to my server. Once the file was online Google Maps could read the file and create the map that is embedded above.
A relatively new addition to Google Maps is the ability for the viewer to turn on/off Wikipedia and photo data from Panoramio via the ‘more’ button. Panoramio has some photos in the area the map above shows, though I feel a few of them lack accuracy.
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