[talk-ph] Recording POI's with a camera

2011-03-14 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, You probably know this already, but I only discovered it a few weeks ago. I knew if you had a digital camera with GPS that you could load pictures from it into JOSM and the would apear at the correct location on the map. What I did not realize was that you can also use a digital camera even

Re: [talk-ph] Recording POI's with a camera

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Cole
This is also a reason to delete the EXIF and other meta-data should be removed from photos you are placing in pulic sites, If you have left a track or the GPS location is recored the people can know where you took the photo, EG:Exactly where your house is.. Note this is more important on your m

Re: [talk-ph] Recording POI's with a camera

2011-03-14 Thread tutubi
geotaggging, something i was looking for last year but found the add-on expensive i did some sort of crude mapping last weekend. while looking for some shops on Roosevelt Ave, QC, i took pictures of the road and signages so that i don't have to make mental notes... several shops visited while wife

Re: [talk-ph] Recording POI's with a camera

2011-03-15 Thread Leonard Soriano
one procedure to do before leaving for your trip is to try to synchronize the time of the digital camera with the GPS. this will be helpful when the pictures are being geo-tagged. cheers, --bunny --- On Tue, 15/3/11, tutubi wrote: > From: tutubi > Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Recording

Re: [talk-ph] Recording POI's with a camera

2011-03-15 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, another tip if you record more than one track, is photographing your hand whilst holding up the number of fingers to match the track number at the start of every track. This way when you get home it's easy to see which photo's belong to which track. As this method of geotagging is using the d