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I have been playing with GPS for a good few years now and the whole thing still intrigues me. All it boils down to is 3 numbers that tell you exactly where you are in the world, quite handy but so what. Well the uses this has been put to is getting bigger and bigger. Now my phone has GPS built in along with a camera you can do some interesting things, especially when you combine the two. Nokia puts out a bunch of handy free software to run on its handsets including their Sports Tracker which taps into the GPS signal and records all sorts of handy information like the route you take,m average speed, how many laps you do etc. It also lets you extract this information in various forms, a track for google earth so you can see where you have been on the planet in all its satellite imagery glory and various other formats. Now if you combine information that tells you exactly where you are at exactly what time it's not much of a step to sync that information with for example a picture you just took with your digital camera. The picture contains information about the time it was taken so if you use an handy little program called GPICSYNC it sorts through a bunch of images and a gps file adding gps info to the pictures it can sync. All very handy, the net result is a track of where you have been on google earth with any pictures you took along the way right at the exact location you took them, you can then do a fly through of your trip. All very geeky but very cool if you ask me, works with any digital camera too.....

Doug on July 4, 2007 9:29 AM | Permalink