Getting back out into the Northern Fells again on Saturday, I decided to try and automatically geo-tag my photos using the tracklog from my GPS. There appear to be various solutions for this. Essentially, you need an application to read your GPS's tracklog, which you save in a folder with all the associated photographs. The geo-tagging application compares the date/time stamp of the photo with the tracklog, and writes the co-ordinates into the EXIF data of each photograph.
The walk was in the North West corner of the Northern Fells (Wainwright, book 5) and the album is HERE.
After a bit of Googling for reviews and ratings of suitable (ie/ free!) solutions, I settled on Geosetter, which is a German product with the option to install in English. For my purposes, very quick and easy to use. I just exported the tracklog as a GPX file, saved it in the images folder, and Geosetter did the rest.
The absolute top tip if you intend to do this is to ensure that the time on your GPS and the time on your camera is in sync. Being a technically minded person I obviously did exactly that - after all, I'm not stupid. Unfortunately, I didn't check to see if the date was set correctly...
So, my second product endorsement is for another application from the same author, called Exifer. This allows you to batch process EXIF data to correct the time/date stamps. It also does a lot more than that, but all I needed was the date change, and it worked great. The product is discontinued, but as stated, it's quick, simple and did what I needed.
However, remember to check the date and time in your camera, and it will be a lot easier!
Have really enjoyed looking at the work of Slinkachu with his mini street-art installations using model railway figures and had fancied giving it a try for a while - perhaps around a computer or technology theme. For the moment, just doing some initial experiments to try out a few different setups and get a feel for the best lighting at this tiny scale. Second attempt below:
Was just listening to Radcliffe and Maconie in the kitchen, in another desperate bid to avoid the mind numbing, IQ draining banality of ITV's Britain Loves Losers, and heard some amusing white lies on their phone in. These are all along the lines of Great Lies to Tell Small Kids, which includes such gems as "When I was your age Weetabix came in eight different shapes!"
1. The man who told his children that his hair was "blown off" by a sneezing cow. 2. The father who had always refused to buy sweets at the garage because he claimed they tasted of petrol. 3. The suggestion that snooker referees only wear white gloves because the TV lights make the balls too hot to handle. 4. And the extraordinary (and possibly true) claim that Bruce Forsyth invented the potato wedge.
It's a really good show, Radcliffe and Maconie - don't really listen to it as much as I should. Good variety of quality music and always amusing banter between the two presenters.
Was just reminded of this video, while looking at The Long Now. The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 and hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking.
Bit of a jump in logic now, but in a talk on TED Kirk Citron discussed his Long News project, looking at items of news that will "matter" in 50, 100, or 10000 years time; Obama's presidency was mentioned. Which reminded me of this video, heavily featured in No Agenda, in the morning! A few of the copies of this on YouTube have been taken down - due to a "terms of use violation". But of course!
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." Barack Obama Campaign Promise - October 27, 2007
"There are over 550 million firearms in worlwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other eleven?"
Amazing intro sequence from "The Lord of War" with Nicolas Cage.
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