Sunday, December 11, 2011

How to Geotag and Display Pictures in Google Earth

Have you ever wished you could show people where on a map your photographs were taken? Wouldn't it be great if you could use a computer-based mapping program to do this? Well, you can. With Google Earth, a digital camera and an inexpensive GPS receiver, you can create and display picture locations, and with a little typing you can add pictures and descriptive text that will display when you click on the picture's location. You can then save these data in a specially formatted KMZ file that you can e-mail to colleagues, friends, or family so they too can view the pictures in Google Earth. Click here