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Photo Locator (Standalone)

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Availability

The Photo Locator application is available in 2 forms :

  1. Photo Locator Standalone : Can be used as a standalone application.
  2. Photo Locator Extension : Requires Orbit GIS or Orbit Explorer Plus to operate, but adds interactive geocoding.

Introduction

Photo Locator allows you to :

  • Explore your GPS-tagged photos in Google Earth without having to publish them to an online service!
  • Export your images to the Google Earth KMZ format
  • Export your images to any GIS system that supports the Shape format

Tutorial

Open a Directory

First step is to select a directory containing photographs.

Select a directory Browse the images

Edit Project Name

Next edit the project name.

  • When exporting to Google Earth, the project name is configured as the name of your placemarks file.
  • When exporting to Shape, the project name is added to each object.

Edit the project name

Open or Export

Now open or export the images!

  • Right-click a photo and press “Open in Google Earth” to locate an image right away or
  • Click one of the toolbar buttons to batch-export all the images.

Exporting to Google Earth :

Explore your photographs using Google Earth Close up on the image caption

Note on Vector Files

Orbit PhotoLocator can also integrate RICOH Memo attributes into the exported shape file.
Make sure the .MTA file (defining the attributes) is present in the same directory when exporting!.

Note on Google Maps

If you place .kmz files somewhere online, you can view them in Google Maps by filling in the address to the kmz file as a google maps search location!

 
Last modified:: 2019/03/25 11:36