GPS Identification of Photo Locations

I bought a simple Garmin eTrex wanting to identify a shot I had taken on the Mogollon Rim. I marked a waypoint about where I shot it then plugged the lattitude and longitude into Google Earth and oriented it in a similar view.

Then I compared the Google Earth photo to the one I shot. Now I know the prominent feature is called Myrtle Point. Pretty cool huh? This is called a "spin off" ie what the government uses as justification for spending billions on technology really developed for "defense".

http://www.painted-with-light.com/NEW_WORK/gps.jpg

http://www.painted-with-light.com/images/site/ARIZONA/AZ9.jpg

Another shot from the vicinity:

http://www.painted-with-light.com/images/site/ARIZONA/AZ17.jpg

Hey Doug, Very cool comparison and nice images!

I recently entered the world of GPS also. I've been playing with a product called RoboGeo which provides the feature of inserting GPS coordinates from a tracklog into the EXIF data of digital files (which doesn't work very well with LF ). It also does a nice job of formatting output to Google Earth. Here is a Google Earth file I created from an outing last weekend.

Fun stuff!

So often when travelling we encounter landmarks we can't identify. GPS and Google Earth are an incredibly handy combo. I don't know what you're shooting, but Nikon has what looks like a very handy feature recording GPS locations automatically between your GPS and the EXIF file for each shot. Haven't tried it yet because Garmin is convinced there is no such thing as Mac.

I've been watching out for GPS type unit to identify the location of my makro wildflower shots so as to go back to the spot during the next season ie. from one autumn this year to autumn next year, or should I say fall to explain myself to you people to the North of the Big Red Line.
Charles R Kerr
Downunder

I did this excercise a few months ago... blew *my* mind...

Google Earth image: http://www.jamesphotography.ca/peyto_lake_google_earth.jpg
My photo: http://www.jamesphotography.ca/cgi-bin/view_pic.pl?2005-09-23_001_Peyto_Lake_Nikon_scan


Quite cool.