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 wifey did some shopping... On 3/15/11, Ian Haylock <hayloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 if it > doesn't have a built in GPS receiver. This is because the camera records the > time that the picture was taken. > > To make this work you need to start your GPS recording. Then just take > photo's of any POI's that take your fancy. > When you get home load the recorded track into JOSM. > Then right click on the GPS layer (in the layer list), and import the > photo's you took on the trip. > The POI photo's are then imported at the correct location on the map. > If the locations are slightly off, they can be manually adjusted, by > adjusting the time offset. > > This could save a lot of note taking on mapping parties, as you could just > take a photo of a road, and later use that to enter details of road type, > surface type, etc. > > I find this technique works well riding shotgun in a car when on some > mundane trip to the supermarket,as it enables me to record subdivision > names, road names, etc without having to stop at each location. > > Cheers Ian > -- --- I explore, therefore I blog. http://www.backpackingphilippines.com _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
