Creating images containing GPS data

Conclusion

To provide an engaging presentation of your vacation trip along with digital images and some GPS data, all you need is a bit of know-how and the right tools. Once you understand how the various techniques interact, you can produce fantastic results. l

Infos

Exif: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format
Geeqie: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net
Exifprobe: http://freecode.com/projects/exifprobe
Exiftran (FBIDA project): https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
Pyexiv2: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/
Gexiv2: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gexiv2
Python Imaging Library (PIL): http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
GPSies, http://www.gpsies.com
TIFF Tag Reference: http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags.html
GPS tags in the Exif standard: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/GPS.html
Geonames: http://www.geonames.org
Nominatim: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org
Waymarked Trails: http://waymarkedtrails.org
Map comparisons on BBBike: http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/
GPX format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_eXchange_Format
GottenGeography: http://gottengeography.ca/
QLandkarteGT: http://www.qlandkarte.org/

The Author

Axel Beckert (http://noone.org/abe/) works as Linux system administrator at ETH Zurich, sits on the board of the Linux User Group Switzerland and is a member of the Debian project. He has assumed the role of mentor, guinea pig, and package sponsor since the restructuring of the aptitude team.

Frank Hofmann (http://www.efho.de/) works in Berlin as a service provider for typesetting and printing. Since 2008, he's been coordinating the regional meetings of the Linux User Group for the Berlin-Brandenburg region.

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