Advanced Activities with GPS: RoboGeo & Google Earth With support from: NSF DUE Prepared by: in partnership with: John McGee Jennifer McKee Geospatial Technician Education Through Virginia’s Community Colleges (GTEVCC)

Photo2GPS A free software program that associates GPS track files with digital photographs Created by the Geospatial Extension Educator at the University of Connecticut Only works with Windows XP (does not work with Vista or Windows 7....) Can be downloaded from m m

Photo2GPS (software) We are not going to work with Photo2GPS, but I wanted you to be aware of it... We are going to work with RoboGEO

RoboGEO RoboGeo is very similar to Photo2GPS It is a bit more “powerful” More functionality... User-friendly There is a “free trial version” 1 license of the real version costs $79 10 license “lab kit” is $399 More information at:

Final Product Red icons are photos Click on icon to see photo taken at that location

Work Flow GPS tracks Take pix. photos KML file University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program Take photo of GPS unit with Time displayed RoboGeo Software Carry GPS receiver and automatically collect trackpoint data

Picture taken at 15:42:28 which puts the picture at 2/3 of the distance between the track points 24 seconds between track points Track points w/ date and time displayed Interpolated Photo Locations University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program 2007/04/02-15:42: /04/02-15:42: /04/02-15:42:182007/04/02-15:42:03 15:42:28

Using RoboGeo Detailed instructions have been developed. These instructions are available from the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program Website (under “Cool Tools”)