PhotoMap

Easy create a photo album which can be navigated by clicking on a map

Sample

Sample PhotoMap [fullscreen]
(with a few lo-res photos, requires Adobe SVG-Plugin to be installed)

How it works

Carry your GPS with you when shooting pictures.
Your GPS saves geographic data with a timestamp automatically as a trackpoint list. The digital camera saves a timestamp to each picture you take.
You just need to put your pictures and the trackpoint list of your GPS on your computer and PhotoMap matches each photo to the place it was taken.
Then you just need a map image with its coordinates of it's upper left and it's lower right corners.

At this moment no special map projection will be supported, so PhotoMap will only work correct with maps of countries or smaller parts of the world.
A world map wouldn't be displayed right.
Run the PhotoMap matcher application (need to be done only if pictures or trackpoint have been changed)

Requirements

GPS (e.g. Garmin)
digital camera
Adobe SVG-Plugin
Java JRE 1.4+ (for converting data)

Screenshots

Configuration

Maps

To add a map copy the image into the maps directory and add an entry in the viewer/map-data.xml file. You need to specify

name: name
src: the filename of the image
leftuppercoord: coordinate of the left upper corner
rightdowncoord: coordinate of the right lower corner

FAQ

How can I add images without EXIF-Data or without trackpoints

In this case data can be set in a data.xml file with entries for each photo in the directory where the images are.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<photos>
  <photo date="28.08.2003 10:38" image="Set28_01.jpg" description="Holiday 2003 ..." coordinate="N48.85176 E11.77134"/> 
  <photo date="28.08.2003 10:40" image="Set29_01.jpg" description="Holiday 2003 ..." coordinate="N48.85176 E11.77134"/> 
  <photo date="28.08.2003 10:42" image="Set29_02.jpg" description="Holiday 2003 ..." coordinate="N48.85176 E11.77134"/> 
</photos>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<photos>
  <photogroup description="Holiday 2003" coordinate="N48.85176 E11.77134">
    <photo date="28.08.2003 10:38" image="Set28_01.jpg" /> 
    <photo date="28.08.2003 10:40" image="Set29_01.jpg" /> 
    <photo date="28.08.2003 10:42" image="Set29_02.jpg" /> 
  </photogroup>
</photos>