Photo Mapping Update

Gallery, the photo gallery software that runs my photo gallery and many others on the web recently had a poll concerning the use of GPSs and photography. The Bad Muffin, a conservative macophile these days, previously sent me a link to some mac software that could link photos with their locations by way of the gps route/track data and time-correlation. It's a great idea, and has been possible to do "by hand" since GPSs came to the consumer market, but is only now becoming convenient. I'm hoping the developers of Gallery will add this capability in a future release. This would be especially handy for geocaching and photo search based on visual displays instead of keywords.

This site has a working example of the types of things that could be done. The descripion of how he did it can be found here.

I still haven't found a decent Java API for interfacing with the non-NMEA formats (ie Garmin protocol) my GPS can provide.