August 2007 Archives

Auto Geolocating Photos

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Even before we started geocaching as a hobby, I have liked the idea of geolocating our photos in Flickr. I try to do it when I can, but even with Flickr's mapping features it can be a time consuming task. Now that we are geocaching and have invested in a handheld GPS unit, I've discovered a few neat tools for automatically geotagging images using tracking data from our GPS. Of course, I'm not saying that managing our pictures isn't already a full time job, but some of these tools do take the tediousness out of the process and I'm more likely to tag and geotag our images from now on.

We tend to take most of our pictures while out geocaching anymore. That's not to say non-geocachers can't do this, you would just need a handheld GPS unit with tracking turned on while you're out taking pictures. Naturally ours is usually turned on since we're hunting geocaches, but I would certainly consider taking ours along with us if we were sightseeing somewhere and I wanted to save our locations to our photos. I will add some of my favorite geocaching tools to the end for anybody interested, and show a few examples of how I've been using the data and pictures that we do have.


Part of University of Michigan's Tunneling System Exposed
Originally uploaded by heidigoseek.

I was walking by the construction at the library one day and I saw this, then I noticed a sign inside the undergrad library explaining what it was all about. I find this stuff interesting. I didn't find a good website about the tunnels but I did find an article in The Michigan Daily Online.

Music Collection

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I went looking for something in my CD collection last night and I realized that I have lots of CDs that I never even listen to anymore. Then I got pretty nostalgic, because I do have some CDs that I really love. That's when I decided to make an effort to listen to at least one every day. Today I'll probably listen to several since I don't have to go to work. I might not listen to the actual CD, I'm thinking of saving them in a playlist on Rhapsody so I know what I have (at least the ones that are in the catalog).

I've been thinking about taking our CDs and putting them into sleeves to cut down the amount of space they take anyway. I like the idea of keeping them but they take up two media shelves in our apartment (of course about 50% of our music is Classical too). I'm going to try to figure out a way to blog what I'm listening to each day, but it probably won't be here. I might either use my Vox account or find an application on Facebook to keep track.

I'm also just pulling them off the shelf in random order. We never did reorganize them when we moved so they're just kinda thrown up there. First up though is Sarah McLaclan, Surfacing.

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