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Mapping photos 2 (libkml)

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.

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Mapping photos

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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Geotagging

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.

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GPSBabel: supprimer selon fix

March 24th, 2008 by Melaneum

GPSBabel permet de supprimer des waypoints selon le nombre de satellites en visibilité, les dillutions de précision horizontales et verticales (HDOP et VDOP), mais rien pour supprimer les points en <fix>none</fix>.

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On GoogleEarth accuracy

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?

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Blog-mapping

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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De la trace GPS à la carte

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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GPS: from hardware to data

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.

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