said by cwnorris:
. . . I am too lazy to keep a log as I shoot, and when I get home and want to look at and share the photos, I am sometimes lost.
Yes, I can certainly relate to that!
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I also think it would be nice to be able to have a link along with the photo, that leads to an online map, or possibly another image with the trackpoints of your trip.
There's been more than one occasion on which I've followed an animal trace rather than a marked path to some location. A few years later, that GPS route can be essential if you yourself want to revisit the location.
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I think with outdoor and landscape shots, it's nice to provide an exact location, as maybe someone else who sees your photo may want to visit the spot, and having GPS info in the EXIF makes that very easy (at least finding the spot).
Just don't become a famous photographer, okay?
I think it was Galen Rowell in the early years of becoming known who used to identify his shooting locations. Years later, when he went back again, he was disgusted to find eroded paths, trashy campsites, and the spikes where dozens of others had set their tripods up on exactly the same site (presuming, of course, that Galen was actually standing on the ground, which was not always so).
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I can imagine all sorts of neat ways to make an online representation of a trip or outing, and the LAT/LONG/ALTITUDE information would be a great addition.
Oh, you most assuredly can! Let me see if I can find the URL for the journey along the Southwest Coastal Trail in Cornwall, England that I at least got to see part of last September -- one of the best documented sites I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the Brits don't seem to have the inexpensive GPS-based topo maps that we here in the States tend to take for granted, it seems.
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Addendum Okay, here's the English website that you may want to take a look at. I think there's probably ten to twenty years of work involved there and with inputs from more than one person. Check »
www.jbutler.org.uk/e2e/s ··· ex.shtml . It's a very British style; care to show the Brits how an American would do it?