Geomapping with Picasa & Google Earth
Posted in geotagging, Google on Jun 26th, 2008
Vadim made a presentation on Geomapping architectural pictures using a combination of Picasa and Google Earth. The disadvantage is that it requires 2 installations for moderator users.
When one opens pictures in Picasa, there is an option to geotag them under the tools menu. It is quite straightforward. You can watch a 2 minute video tutorial here.
To share the results of our geotagging experiments, an option is Picasa Web Albums. Picasa allows to share an album on the web, either publicly or selectively. Storage is limited to 1 GB (which gives us close to a 1000 pictures, if not more) and can be upgraded. Geotagged pictures in a Picasa web album have a map view showing there origin. There is also a map view for the album. See this link for a test album with 3 pictures.
Albums and individual pictures can be exported into a file for viewing them in Google Earth. It’s another sharing mechanism, provided users have it installed.
Picasa web albums can be embedded in blogs and websites.
Applications for Geotagging appear quite limited. We could think about energy projects, but the number of pictures we have that are specific to a location are very limited. Wind turbine pictures are obviously site-specific, but often we do not know the site. Mapping partners or users may be of value, but only if we have many more users and partners, and many more chapters. In such case, we would need to go much further in automation of geotagging.
