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M-dub

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Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« on: June 10, 2014, 01:10:56 PM »
Hey All!

This may or may not be the correct forum to post this question...

We've started a new policy to take photographs onsite every time an excavation takes place and recently purchased a GPS enabled camera.  This project is just getting off the ground, but so far, the best we've got is a plot plan of our site on which I manually place a leader and a symbol.  Both contain a hyperlink to the network folder that stores the photos for each.

To be honest, I'd love to be able to use the Google Maps API to make our own local version of Google Maps, but that's outside the scope of this activity for now.

I would, however like to know if anyone has any experience in mapping GPS enabled photos in AutoCAD or ... anything.  We need this to stay local / not public.

Any suggestions welcome!  :)

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2014, 02:07:44 PM »
you can try Map Guide open source

and or perhaps just use MAP and the NOTES function to link the photo to the thing in the photo
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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 03:24:10 AM »
I fear you won't get it done in Autocad environment, whilst it's easy to accomplish with opensource software, e.g. Qgis.

:)

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 03:31:15 AM »
One thats NOT in the AutoCAD arena but Tuoni wrote a program for our website that used the google maps to locate images stored on our server. Did a cracking job of it too :)

Maybe he could give you a few pointers?

Thanks for explaining the word "many" to me, it means a lot.

M-dub

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2015, 08:49:34 AM »
Bump

We're getting quite a collection of photos we've taken around our site and would really like to "dump them into some kind of system that will only be available to us, locally."

There does not have to be any link to AutoCAD at all.  What we'd like to end up with would be available to anyone at our site.  They'd be able to bring up an aerial photo of the site, and see pins or a marker of some sort that represents the availability of photos for that location.

Anyone have any new suggestions?
Many thanks!

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2015, 09:04:47 AM »
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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2015, 09:47:32 AM »
Map/Map Guide

or

QGIS
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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2015, 10:00:10 AM »
Bump
a must have for any land lubber :)
http://www.sasgis.org/programs/sasplanet/SASPlanet_151111.zip (unzip and run SASPlanet.exe)
but you will have to place your images manually either by clicking on the map or by typing in the coordinates
« Last Edit: November 23, 2015, 10:08:50 AM by VovKa »

M-dub

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2015, 10:56:32 AM »
Perhaps ...

Google Maps API for Work
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/



Well, duh!  (why couldn't I have found that?!)

Thanks Mark.  I hope I can get IT to just take it from here.  Fingers crossed!

I'll take a look at the other links as well, guys.  Thanks for the suggestions!

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2015, 11:46:20 AM »
We used the following kludge to do this:
-Call freeware EXIFTOOL (by Phil Harvey, link below) from within EXCAL VBA to export the GPS lat long info
-Convert Lat Long to UTM (in Excel VBA)
-Export a text file (photofilename, N, E, Z, UTMZone)
-Custom AutoLisp routine to write a block to autocad based on the above text file.  Block contains a hyperlink to the photo.

ExifTool by Phil Harvey
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

GUI for ExifTool by Bogdan Hrastnik
http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2015, 12:13:20 PM »
what camera are you using?
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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2015, 12:52:11 PM »
hmm, can you post one photo from that camera so that I can test something here?
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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2015, 12:58:24 PM »
hmm, can you post one photo from that camera so that I can test something here?

Hmmmm, well, let's see.

mjfarrell

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Re: Mapping GPS Enabled Photos
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2015, 01:57:25 PM »
OK, this is what I did...

Imported your image into GARMIN  Basecamp software it is FREE

It brought the image in...and placed on MAP @

N42° 45.976' W82° 27.444'


From here I could export the image data as a SHP file...
place into MAP or Map Guide with a link to the document (the photo)

Or for your purposes, potentially run the Basecamp application on a machine that all others can Remote desktop into
and view the photos in their geographic context from there. This also allows the user to input 'notes' about the picture
as well.


importing it directly into qgis reveals the following metadata:

Driver
GDAL provider
JPEG
JPEG JFIF
Dataset Description
C:\Users\mfarrell\Downloads\IMGP0887.JPG
EXIF_ColorSpace=1
EXIF_ComponentsConfiguration=0x1 0x2 0x3 00
EXIF_Contrast=0
EXIF_CustomRendered=0
EXIF_DateTime=2014:10:23 14:50:25
EXIF_DateTimeDigitized=2014:10:23 14:50:25
EXIF_DateTimeOriginal=2014:10:23 14:50:25
EXIF_DigitalZoomRatio=(1)
EXIF_ExifVersion=0230
EXIF_ExposureBiasValue=(0)
EXIF_ExposureMode=0
EXIF_ExposureTime=(0.01)
EXIF_Flash=24
EXIF_FlashpixVersion=0100
EXIF_FNumber=(4.4)
EXIF_FocalLength=(14.4)
EXIF_FocalLengthIn35mmFilm=81
EXIF_GPSAltitude=(172.2)
EXIF_GPSAltitudeRef=00
EXIF_GPSDateStamp=2014:10:23
EXIF_GPSImgDirection=(348.93)
EXIF_GPSImgDirectionRef=T
EXIF_GPSLatitude=(42) (45) (58.59)
EXIF_GPSLatitudeRef=N
EXIF_GPSLongitude=(82) (27) (26.664)
EXIF_GPSLongitudeRef=W
EXIF_GPSMapDatum=WGS-84
EXIF_GPSMeasureMode=3
EXIF_GPSSatellites=09
EXIF_GPSStatus=A
EXIF_GPSTimeStamp=(18) (52) (10)
EXIF_GPSVersionID=0x2 0x3 00 00
EXIF_Interoperability_Index=R98
EXIF_Interoperability_Version=0x30 0x31 0x30 0x30
EXIF_ISOSpeedRatings=320
EXIF_Make=PENTAX RICOH IMAGING
EXIF_MakerNote=PENTAX
EXIF_MeteringMode=5
EXIF_Model=PENTAX WG-3 GPS
EXIF_Orientation=1
EXIF_PixelXDimension=4608
EXIF_PixelYDimension=2592
EXIF_ResolutionUnit=2
EXIF_Saturation=0
EXIF_SceneCaptureType=0
EXIF_Sharpness=0
EXIF_Software=PENTAX WG-3 GPS Ver. 1.00
EXIF_SubjectDistanceRange=3
EXIF_WhiteBalance=0
EXIF_XResolution=(72)
EXIF_YCbCrPositioning=2
EXIF_YResolution=(72)
Band 1
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Dimensions
X: 4608 Y: 2592 Bands: 3
X : 2304,Y 1296
X : 1152,Y 648
X : 576,Y 324
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Data Type
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Layer Spatial Reference System
+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
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0.0000000000000000,-2592.0000000000000000 : 4608.0000000000000000,0.0000000000000000
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