Our Hike to Penwood State Park

We have arrived!!!!

ok... where to start....

I’ve already told you that we bought a GPS unit to hook to my Nikon D200 (to do this, you need a camera that is GPS aware). I hooked the GPS up to the camera, so as I take photos, the location of the photo is recorded in the EXIF data.

We took our first live trip yesterday to Penwood State Park, a place we haven’t gone to in ten years. Once we parked the car, we hooked the GPS to the camera, and turned on tracking; a way the GPS unit keeps track of your entire hike.

After the trip, I downloaded the photos, as I always do, and prepared them for upload to Flickr. I created a Penwood State Park album, etc. I also uploaded to my website the tracking map file from the GPS unit. With that tracking map file, along with the Flickr photo set ID, I was able to link the two into the map you see below.

The really exciting part of all of this (for me), is that, unlike in the past where I would post a few photos of a trip, along with a link the full album, here...

all the photos of the trip are accessible from this one map
you can click on any hot spot area (the pink numbers), and that will walk you through the photos
if you click on any photo in the “walk through”, it will display a larger image of that photo (click again to go back to the map)
if you click on a photo to enlarge it, at the bottom is a link to the full Flickr album.

And of course, since this is a Google map application, you have the full Google mapping controls built in, such as zoom, hybrid, satellite, move the map around, etc. Here’s the elevation guide (again from the tracking file), followed by the interactive photo map.

NOTE ABOUT THE INTERACTIVE PHOTO MAPPING BELOW:

1) to use this functionality, your browser must support Inline Frames and be configured to display them.

2) If you are a subscriber of email alerts from this website, the interactive map will not work in your email client. You need to click on the TITLE of the email entry to take you to the original entry on the website.

3) The more you zoom in, it will start to separate photos into their true position. If you are zoomed out a bit, it may say that there are 5 photos in one location. If you zoom in on that same location a bit more, you will see that there are actually 3 photos taken in one location, and a few feet away, the other two.

4) The map looks really cool in "Hybrid".