Alaska Photo Gallery

I finally got a chance to make a gallery of the photos from my June trip to Alaska.

Hawaii Photos, Mapped

Click on the map above to go to a Google map with interactive photos.

Geotagging Workflow

I started this as an email but thought I’d share how I organize and geotag photos.

In Expression, you can view the lat and/or lon as a view option. I made a thumbnail preset to show all of the tagging information that I use namely, File name, City, State, Keywords, People, Lat. This takes up a lot of space, so I made another preset to only show the image and the rating info (for sorting). That way when I’m in tagging mode, I look at lots of data, and when I’m in sorting mode I only see images.

When you’re ready to add lat/lon info, the easiest way I’ve found is to add Geotagger as a helper application. Geotagger sets a photo’s lat/lon EXIF using Google Earth’s center. When you want to geotag a photo, right-click it and select “Open with > Geotagger”. It took me a while to figure out how to get Expression to show the geotag. You have to “Rebuild Item” [Apple+B] after Geotagger has finished. For some reason, resyncing the metadata [Apple+Option+B] doesn’t update the lat/lon. The nice thing about this method is that it runs in the background and doesn’t require loading/learning a new program, plus you can batch process many images from the same location.

I’ve found it really helpful to make a .kml with the places I tag a lot. You can save a subset of your “My Places” in Google Earth by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.”

I also use “Map the Photo” to verify tagged photos. It opens a Google Map in your browser with the location from the photo.

If you have .gpx data from a GPS you can use GPS Photolinker to sync the tracks with your images very quickly.

Helpful Links
Geotagger
GPS Photolinker
Map the Photo
GPSVisualizer

Coachella camping

Here’s a panoramic shot of the camping area from the Coachella Valley Music Festival. I heard that there were 16,000 people camping, and I believed it.

State signs now geotagged

After taking forever to geotag my photos, I’m ready to upload them. You can see on the map above the state signs I passed. The photo is a link to the Yahoo! map where you can click on the pink dots to see the image that was taken there.

After you look at the state signs, be sure to check out the set Westward Ho! which has images from my drive across the bottom of the US. The California set shows my pictures from guess where.

I’ll add links below once I get the rest of my photos uploaded.

Photo Maps:
Westward Ho!
California
Northward

Photos from France and Bulgaria

I’m not sure if anyone still reads my blog but if you’re out there, here’s a bunch of new photos from France and Bulgaria.

Photos from Montana, N+S Dakota, Colorado

Finding an Internet connection in Aspen, I was able to upload a lot of pictures. (Click the blue word to see the whole set)

Montana

N+S Dakota

Colorado

State Signs

Another round of photos

Jonah (Jeramiah’s girlfriend’s housemate) was kind enough to let me use his Mac to upload some more pictures, so here’s another round.

Photo Collection for Northern California and Oregon

More photos

On the road (part 4) has pictures from the last few weeks in California.

Southern California

Matt and I are about to break the imaginary (at least I hope) barrier between southern and northern California. I just uploaded several new pictures in the set Southern California
from the last few days including Michelle’s visit. You can see we had some good video game time with the new Nintendo Wii and the almost classic Area 51 shoot-’em-up.