GPS Camera prototype

Jeff, that is cool... I could see some usefull apps for this!
JH

Mr. T. and Co. come up with some tight work, cutting-edge to be sure...if the rest of the world ever catches up with your grand schemes intellectually, you will most certainly become a rich man by virtue of the practicality and usefulness (not to mention the coolness) of your creations. That message should be in a fortune cookie somewhere...

Jeff,

I'm getting a feed error on Bloglines.com from your feed:

"Bloglines has encountered an error trying to fetch the latest version of this feed. Bloglines handles errors automatically, no action is required by you. The error was:

The feed does not appear to exist. This can be caused by the feed URL being incorrect, or it can be caused by a configuration issue with the server hosting the feed. If this error continues, you should check the feed URL and, if it is wrong, subscribe to the correct URL."

The feed URI is http://jrhicks.net/rdf91_xml

Jere: Can't wait to hear your ideas.

Dyron: thanks

Timothy: My server was down momentarily last night, maybe thats the problem. I will try and look into further. Thanks.

Cool!

Damn! We just build a similar application using a PDA with a build-in cam.

You can find a promo on http://www.cnip.nl (Dutch).

That is pretty cool.

This looks amazing?
q/ ? when will it be available (beta)?
will it be free?
so far I use a garmin 45,and I attached little wav files to my pictures with the postition as I read it(Canon G5)
dee.

Jeff,

I'm a web designer that's come across a neat little project. A very good friend of mine is hiking the Appalachian Trail starting in April, and I've taken on the responsibility of building and hosting a blog for him. He'll be updating it from the trail via cell phone.

I've been researching ways to integrate GPS into the system, and if there's any possibility of this being able to be used I'd like to discuss it with you further.

Please contact me at the forwarder address I've left so we might be able to talk about this. There's a lot of details I'd like to tell you about.

Thanks!

domic: I don't know if the VideoCapture can be used with your camera, but your Garmin should be compatible as long as it can send NMEA sentences to the serial port.

frankiejr: you will want to use worldkit. I suspect the mobile phone user can manually type in their GPS as the message with the photo ... then you can manually (or with scripts) receive the email, upload the picture, and augment the worldkit rss file. I also think that flikr has some kinda mobile blog gps thing.

Great device!

If the big car/motorbike manufacturers paid you millions to make a few mods (as indeed they should!), I'm sure any vehicle owner would greatly appreciate knowing exactly where thieves had taken their beloved wheels -combined with a mugshot of the bastards!

Please keep me posted...

WAY COOL, Jeff! I've wanted to do this hack for the longest time, but I never had a camera that I could remotely control. I (obviously) could have hacked at the shutter button, but I want my hacks to be reproducible by ordinary mortals (that is, people who can't solder).

So, do tell: what are you doing with pygps?
And .... the latest version I have published is fairly old, because I didn't think anybody was using it.

You want to see my current version?
-russ

That is a nice hack, and well presented! I've taken a different route to georeferencing my pix (from a Kodak DC280) by folding in the location tags later to the exif metadata. Cheers, -red

I'm currently using pygps for the NMEA sentence handling. I'm definately interested in doing some real-time map stuff. I don't know if pygps liscense is compatible with some of the other LGPL licenses.

Hi,

we've built a solution for the GIS community to integrate gps and photographs and GIS.

So far available only in German.

Ole

Ok. Looks nice. We are working with gps-receivers that capture gps-data and write it into the exif-header of digital photos after the journey automatically, so that you can sort your pictures in the "geographically way"

take a look at our website: www.grazer.de

Pretty cool application.

This would be a neat idea for someone that wanted to journalize their vacation.

It would be neat to have that for my Alaska vacation later this year.

This is neat.

Good work!

Really nice work folks!

Paired with something akin to Blue Force Tracker, stuff used in Gulf War II to display battlefield info. on a map in nearly real-time, and/or sat. imaging that's been rendered in 3-D, (e.g.), Google Earth's shots of the Grand Canyon, this stuff would make for some wonderful simulators and/or MapQuest augmentation. Just imagine being able to use such on behalf of a visiting friend/relative coming to one's home for the first time. They could drive the route virtually before coming. Ooo, or even place it on secondary picture-in-picture like screen on a car's HUD so that one could see if they were on the right path.

Jeff,

Thanks for sharing your success with this project. It is so cool. At its simpliest, one should be able to locate via GPS where digital-camera pictures were taken, a technology that I believe it available now. Doing it with video, however, has to be the tops.

I congratulate you and wish you the best of good fortune with this wonderful technology. It ought to be integrated into Canon, Casio, Kodak, Sony, et al., video cameras as soon as practicable.

Are you working on this angle?

Domenic Corsaro
Philadelphia, PA

We have a software solution that will work with any digital camera and external GPS. Our Gps-Photo Link (GPL) software will watermark the photos with Latitude and Longitude while creating HTML pages for one's website. We can also output to Shapefile for those of you who are ESRI users. In our new version, due out mid Janurary, we will include export to a .KMZ file. This is the file that Google Earth uses. So, when you open the .KMZ file it will zoom to where you have taken your pictures and plot them on top of the imagery in Google Earth! It's very resonably priced for the recreational user as well. If you have any questions send me an email. We do have free trial versions available for anyone interested.

Jeff,

Very cool tool!
I have a question: I'm purchasing an E-TEN GPS+CAMERA+POCKETPC-PHONE. I need to develop a tool to capture pictures and stamp on it the GPS coordinate. This tool is not included i the gadget and I'm wondering what's the better platamform to develop it, in the case such a thing doesn't exist yet. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance and best regards from Guatemala!

Carlos

Hello Jeff,

I wanted to once develop the system that you are talking about on
http://conversationswithmyself.com/maps/tracker/gmapTracker.html

I am new to this field and really dont know where to start from. Can you help me out. I've downloaded all the softwares's suggested on that page - but not quite understanding where to start from.

I was trying a similar approach - and this is what I ended up with...

You guys figured out quite early what a freaking gps can do... nice work