June 28th, 2009 by Melaneum
During my last trip to Australia (the first trip for my Android phone), I have been using the ‘mytracks’ application from google to record all the places where I was going. Mostly for two reasons: sending the data to open street map and geotagging my photos.
Category: Android, Geolocation, Python | 4 Comments »
June 28th, 2008 by Melaneum
Take a basic understanding of KML, notions of Python to go through the Internet, add a bit of regular expressions and there is basically no limit to what you can do in terms of geo-mash-up. Read the rest of this entry »
Category: Geolocation, Python | No Comments »
April 3rd, 2008 by Melaneum
Few days ago Google release an open source library targeted at KML files: libkml. There is also bindings for python available.
Category: Geolocation, photo, Python, Tagging | No Comments »
March 25th, 2008 by Melaneum
If you’ve followed earlier intructions on tagging your photos, you now have a set of photos with the gps location information on the exif tag. As we have seen on a previous article on blog-mapping, it is pretty easy to insert Google maps on a website.
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March 24th, 2008 by Melaneum
Un appareil photo d’un côté, un tracker GPS de l’autre… il est tentant de combiner les info. Ce n’est pas pratique (ou même pas possible) dans la plupart des cas de connecter directement les deux appareils.
Category: Geolocation, photo, Tagging | 1 Comment »
March 24th, 2008 by Melaneum
Update 17/06/2008: La modification proposée est intégrée dans les sources de gpsbabel et donc disponible dans la version cvs.
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March 9th, 2008 by Melaneum
Google Earth is becoming commonly used for many applications but what about it’s accuracy? Is a point in Google Earth (or Google map, since this is the same images) really is where it seems to be?
Category: Geolocation | No Comments »
March 4th, 2008 by Melaneum
Once you got you’re own kml files from your GPS (as illustrated before), you may want to display them as :
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March 4th, 2008 by Melaneum
Une fois que vous avez récupéré des traces GPS dans le monde entier (en utilisant cet appareil par exemple), vous commencez à vous demander ce que vous aller bien pouvoir en faire. Imaginez des milliers (des millions ?) de personnes se baladant autour du monde avec un GPS et mettant toutes ces traces sur un site. Est-ce qu’on n’aurait pas une bonne couverture ?
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February 29th, 2008 by Melaneum
Provided you have the right receiver, GPS (Global Positioning System) enables you to know your current location. Most devices go a little bit further than that and can also record your track.
Category: Geolocation | 2 Comments »
