{"id":2748,"date":"2012-06-10T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2012-06-10T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:23:04","slug":"google-earth-maps-gps-tracks-and-geotagged-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/2748","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth, Maps, GPS tracks and geotagged photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google Earth<\/a> is an amazing program that brings the world to you. It’s also an amazing tool that also puts you in the driving seat of geography! Not entirely a Geographic Information System<\/a> (which most normal people don’t need in any case), it does make it easy for you to interpret and “map” your own life. You can put pins where you’ve been, and add lines and shapes to mark spaces and areas. An advanced feature even allows you to see historic satellite images on the same place! If you’re someone who owns or uses a GPS, this is also a program to see all your info in a pretty slick display. Then there’s Google Maps <\/a>– the online map for everyone and for (pretty much) everywhere!<\/p>\n

I wanted to see how I could use Google Earth to track two hikes we did in Chamonix, France and then share the route and photos online with my friends and family. Luckily I recently bought a Canon S100 which has a built in GPS to tag photos which helped a lot in automating the whole process. Check out the two maps below:<\/p>\n