Jan Cook ISYM 540 – SSII Current Topics in ISM July 9th, 2009
geospatial digital cameras and geotagging for the weekend hiker
Why? You may wish to display you photographs on a digital map layer such as Google Earth, or upload your geotagged photos, data, and maps to your organization, or share between organizations.
…or you just may want to see the sky
Weekend Hiker: Choice of Internal or External GPS D3, D2xs, D2x, D2Hs, D700, D300, D200, D90 Nikon’s CoolPix 6000
Google Earth Version 5.0 the Ocean Layer historical imagery satellite imagery of Mars
Google Earth Pro Google Earth Pro saves higher resolution jpegs and tiffs 4,800 pixels as opposed to 1,000 pixels Saves movie files (beyond kml- & kmz files) Traffic counts -For an additional $200, on US Interstates and highways nationwide and on major and residential roads in major metropolitan areas.
Google Earth Pro Pro offers user-support via !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Downsides Invasion of privacy Theft Inaccurate images Old data
I live here!
Sources: “Geospatial experts bundles new gps enabled Nikon camera with photo-mapping software” April, 2009www.geospatialexperts.com gps-enabled-nikon-camera-with-photo-mapping-software/ “A Comparison of Google Earth 5.0 with Google Earth Pro 5.0” geocomm.com February, 2009 geocomm.com “Keyhole Markup Language” Wikipedia.com July 2009 Markup Language “Flickr” Flicker.com July 2009, “Nokia Beta Labs” Nokia.com 2008 Nokia.comhttp://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/location-tagger “My Sandbox by Amirnoir” Amirnoir.com February 11, 2009, Amirnoir.com