Instead we selected a hike through Little Bennett Regional Park in Clarksburg, MD for Memorial Day. The hike was an easy 9.1 loop around the perimeter of the park, which made for pleasant hiking through mostly shaded trails but not so much for spectacular views.
Notes to Jon:
- If you don't print out a trail map at home you can use a photo of the park signs as a digital map
- We finally remembered to look up local ice cream spots before the hike and ended up at the quite satisfactory Country Cone Cafe in Germantown, MD
- Country Cone Cafe was perfect for this hike because the lactose intolerant among us could eat their frozen yogurt
- Looking for tether ball? Country Cone Cafe has you covered there as well
- While no one got any we certainly saw plenty of Poison Ivy (and spent quite a while debating what it looked like—are the leaves always shiny? Find out the way we did...)
- Hike times: Total time about 7 hours. Hike and lunch 4 hours 45 minutes. Left Ballston just after 10am. At trailhead by 10:45. Finished hiking about 3:30. Ice cream at 4:00 and home by 5:00
- The tool I use to geotag my photos—WWMX Location Stamper—doesn't play well with Picasa and requires the additional step of running something like Exiftool to adjust the version numbers
- I investigated embedding a geotagged slideshow in the post but haven't found a good option yet (I'd like something more interactive than the interesting solution Rocky found). For now I'll link to the new capability in Picasa and Google Maps which is fairly good and just lacks the ability to show a GPS track and easily embed the result in a blog
3 comments:
Jon,
For interactive, embeddable, geotagged slideshows, try EveryTrail's new slideshow feature.
And try replacing WWMX Location Stamper with Microsoft Pro Photo Tools. (free download)
I think the Picasa problem is Picasa's fault. They're not properly reading in data that flickr and other sites use just fine.
Geo... tagging?? Works with google maps and links pictures, or is this guess not totally on target? Please explain to those of us limited to the (possibly now outdated?) geocache. You've peaked our interest.
@cold spaghetti
Geotagging is a way of associating geographic coordinates (lat/long) with a picture so that it can be mapped.
If all goes as planned, the geodata is stored in the image and can then be read by applications such as google maps, flickr, google earth, every trail, etc.
Almost all my pictures are geotagged. For example, see my flickr map.
You can read a lot more about geotagging on my blog.
I haven't gotten around to writing my "how to" yet... one of these days.
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