A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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In the last post I mentioned discoveries in Flickr, which is a Yahoo company. It seems that Google has also been making noises about a product similar to Flickr. As reported on the Google Earth Blog, Picassa Web is now available in beta format. Furthermore, Google Earth can be used to geotag Picassa images directly. … Read More “Google Conquers the World” »
I’ve come across a couple of cool things on Flickr lately. First, user "aemkei" has created a cool new bookmarking applet that geotags photos. The interface is slick, and automatically creates the tags based on an address that has been input. The developer said that he is working on a way to generate the tags … Read More “Cool Flickr Discoveries” »
On a recent visit to the Greenville County Library, I picked a copy of the Greenville County Historic Sites Driving Tour, which is published by the Library. I finally got around to looking through it, and saw that there was a companion website which contains all of the information and photos from the printed version, … Read More “Historic Driving Tour of Greenville” »
One of the most frustrating things for Google Earth users is that most of the country is in low resolution. This includes the majority of South Carolina, and almost all of Greenville. The folks at GE have built in a temporary workaround by allowing users to add image overlays to GE. However, image overlays can … Read More “Google Earth – Using Image Overlays” »
Feedmap has created a little routine that will generate a blogmap – a tiny-badge-sized map that shows your blog’s location. It’s clickable. It’s interactive. You can put this in your metadata column on the front page of your blog so that others know where you are, and you can see how many other local bloggers … Read More “Even more geotagging blogservations” »
I finally found a way to display my geotagged blog entries on a map. I had toyed with a couple of solutions – Geo-Mashup is a WordPress Plugin that is used on a "map page" to display all of the geotagged posts. A similar plugin from blogger YongFook does about the same thing. Both of … Read More “More Geotags” »
As much as I love all things map and GPS related, I don’t know why it took me so long to get hooked up with geotagging. Basically, geotagging is the addition of lat/long data to the metadata associated with images, blog posts – or just about anything else that can be "tagged" with descriptors. Any … Read More “Geotag This!” »
We’ve been watching some of our favorite Winter Olympics events on our new LCD projector. Luge takes on a whole new dimension when it’s on a huge screen. Tonight is the men’s downhill, and that started the segment with a map of the venue, which was obviously taken from Google Earth. I did a quick … Read More “Google Earth Olympics” »
Duff McDaniel, Mrs. Wright’s next door neighbor, had recently purchased a 4-wheel drive vehicle, and wanted to put it through it’s paces. I couldn’t think of a better way to try it out than to search for a couple of geocaches located up in the hills, so Thursday we decided to go on a hunt. … Read More “Samish Island Caches” »
For some strange reason this website has gotten several hits from Google with the search terms "Google Earth" and "Pyramids." I’m assuming that folks are looking for the latitude and longitude of the Great Pyramids in Google Earth. Well, here’s how you do it… First open Google Earth, then double-click on the Sight-Seeing folder under … Read More “Pyramids of Giza in Google Earth” »