Eyes on the World, San Francisco: Passing Under The Golden Gate Bridge

Taken in San Francisco, California by Dawn Endico”Queen Mary 2 passes under the Golden Gate Bridge.I counted 42 private craft in this shot. They are just a tiny fraction of all the boats that came to greet the Queen Mary.

Canon’s EOS 1D Mark III, geotagging?

and today it looks like it’s the Canon’s EOS 1D showing up under a technorati search for geotagging (link relevant for about 10 minutes).All the sites seem to be copying the text from one master site, and assuming the one with the most links is it, that’d be TechMunch with: Canon’s EOS-1D Mark III DSLR with live LCD. The bit we’re looking at is …”There’s also a new WFT- E2A Wireless File Transmitter option for dumping to external storage and even GPS geotagging”When to me “even GPS geotagging” read like it’s about geotagging ready as any camera you care to directly wire the SD card slot to a laptop which in turn is connected to a GPS unit.

Eyes on the World, Modave: Alone in the fog

Taken in Modave, Liege by Jucanils

Quicklinking: Nokia 6110 Navigator GPS Phone (with maps)

[Via Engadget]: Nokia are really starting to push into this integrated GPS, phone market (and by push I kind of mean create) dropping a new S60 smartphone on us with GPS, AGPS (assisted GPS) and other wizzy phone stuff (2 megapixel camera).Don’t know if it does geotagging out of the box, but I’m starting to think of these things as low megapixel GPS cameras with phones built in.Here’s a quick list extract extracted from the do-hicky-thing thing…Key features of the Nokia 6110 Navigator include:- Fully integrated GPS Navigation with one touch Navigator key- Local map pre-installed on the memory card for immediate navigation- HSDPA for fast web browsing and downloading- WCDMA 2100 HSDPA, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900- 2 megapixel camera with integrated flash, 4x digital zoom and panorama mode- Real-time video sharing and video calling- ~40 MB free internal memory- Support of microSD memory card up to 2 GB The Nokia 6110 Navigator phone offers a talk-time of up to 3.5 h (GSM) and 2.5 h (WCDMA), and a standby time of up to 11 days (GSM and WCDMA).Aaron, where’s ours? (always find it best to do in-office communication via RSS).

[offtopic] Messing around with blog template, excuse the mess

I’m fiddling with the blogs templates at the moment, there’s a good chance things will looks horribly broken until I’m done.Still haven’t figured out a good way to try out changes without messing up the main site, without a load of tricky backing up and restoring on a separate site. Unless anyone has any great ideas on how to do that.Thanks.

Neat Google Maps Blog Header Integration.

I’m totally digging this variation by Michael on the 897 Blogger Template that puts a Google Map in the header.Michael travelled round New Zealand on a Harley Davidson Softail with an logging locations, photo’s and details, throwing the results onto his blog. The header is a great way to link them up and get an overview.I’d like to see it taken a step further with mini maps for each blog post and maybe a KML file so we could see the whole journey on Google Earth.Being geobloggers.com thought it was about time to actually link some geobloggers.

My New Favorite Map, Geotagged: DC Surveillance

dcist has a post up today called Fast Track To Nowhere, in which it talks about Surveillance cameras in DC. The bit that caught my eye was of course …Image by Flickr user takomabibelot, used under a Creative Commons license.

Painless (ish) Geotagging, Step 1: Connecting the GPS to the Mac

For some obscure reason I expect the GPS unit to mount just like any other device and then be able to browse it for tracks, waypoints and what-not…. More work was needed, here’s the ingredients I had to work with.Ingredients:Mac PowerBook G4, (1.67 Ghz PowerPC)Mac OS X 10.4.8Garmin eTrex (Yellow!)Serial-USB cable.

[offtopic] Trying out imified

imified seems to nearly have all the answers.

So far I’ve set it up to point to my Remember The Milk account and now I can step through a set of menus to View task lists, add to task lists and view task lists. Unfortunately you can’t chain commands together to do everything in one message, which keeps it just out of reach Quicksilver.Interestingly you can also use it to post to a blog, I’m testing that Right Now![Update: Seems links don’t work, so I’m editing my hand.

Ocean Beach Photo Walk, an update.

This was so I could get a good collection of photos and a tracklog, with which to try out various ways of linking the two together.This is the route I’d planned, and this is the one we took…. All three of which sometimes have surprisingly similar problems.So I’ll be messing with …Mac Tracklog Tools (for getting them off the GPS unit):GPSBabelGPSPhotolinkerMacGPS ProLoadMyTracksGoogle EarthMac Geotagging (for linking the photos to the location)GPSPhotolinkerGeotagger 1.2 (Google Earth, Droplet thingy)GeoTagging Automator ActionDoing it by hand using javascript and FlickrIf there’s any mac stuff I missed drop me a line.Next up, getting your mac to talk to the GPS unit in the first place!

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